Dominance "fights" Ongoing After 2 Years

[Mariah]

I've had this pair of guinea pigs (edit: both Sows) for just over two years now, and they still will semi-regularily get into chin-offs and try and hump each other, spray pee, rumblestrut etc at each other. Things never really "settled down" they just seemed to stablize, ish. I can't always tell who is the "dominant" one, there's not real fighting or anything, I just feel kind of bad as they also seem to just not like each other much - they never sit next to each other/groom the other (except when my hair eater is attempting to eat the other's chin hair as its covered in green juice).

The one pig is more likely to chill at my desk's end of the cage when I'm there than with the other guinea pig.
The only times I've seen them "cuddle" is when they're stressed out in the carrier.
(I did give up on bonding them originally when I got them and put a divider in their cage but they kept trying to tear it down and I was advised to let them just be grumpy at each other)

Is this anything to worry about/feel bad about

 

[VickiA]

Are they boars or sows (boys or girls)?

 

[Mariah]

Derp. Both girls

 

[Swissgreys]

I have to say I think this is actually normal behaviour.
Some pigs are super bonded and very close, but I think the majority like having a companion around, but don't necessarily want to snuggle together all the time.

I have 4 in a cage together, and although two of the girls do groom our boar, one of them never does.
All of them sleep separately for the most part, except for the baby who is always getting told off for getting into everyone's personal space!

Throughout the day I often see them chinning as they wander around their cage, and Ruby will quite often throw someone out of a hay tray or hidey - I guess she is just reinforcing her role as leader.

If your girls are happier together than separated, and no blood is being drawn, then I would leave things as they are to be honest.

 

[Kerrie74]

I have 9 guinea's, a trio of sows (the rest are paired boars) who tend to argue a lot, more so two of them, Coco just sort of stays out of the way when they are doing it. I'd only separate if they had a fight and drew blood, I had to do it with a pair of boars last year who were supposedly bonded..

 

[madguinealady]

My herd have a go at each other on a regular basis.No blood drawn just horrible to each other sometimes.