Dominance In Trios With Neutered Boar
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It depends on the actual character combination. I have got two groups where the boars is dominant and two groups that are led by a sow.
In my own experience, bondings between neutered boars and sows can fail when the top sow and a dominant husboar are both going for top spot, rarely because a boar and an undersow have issues. Hence why my big foster boar is happily living with my Tribe undersows and my own submissive younger husboar is head over heels with the foster top sow (and vice versa)...
Undersows will usually be perfectly fine with any boar that has been accepted by the top sow, but as the boar has to slot in somewhere in the group hierarchy (which is distinct from the sow hierarchy), you may see some dominance over the following few days or weeks until the new husboar has slotted in where belongs.
If you can, please date your girls at Honeybunnies; acceptance should happen quickly after first contact and immdiately morph into a dominance sort-out with the top sow, so it generally won't take all that long to see whether a bond is going to work out or not. Ideally, you do not want to see any hostile signs past some "leave my butt alone" teeth chattering.
How dramatic things get, depends largely on the personalities involved, the age of the boar and how dominant he is. I have seen anything from two days of testosterone overload to a mature boar basically just moving into an established group of sows used to living with a husboar with minimal fuss.
In my own experience, bondings between neutered boars and sows can fail when the top sow and a dominant husboar are both going for top spot, rarely because a boar and an undersow have issues. Hence why my big foster boar is happily living with my Tribe undersows and my own submissive younger husboar is head over heels with the foster top sow (and vice versa)...
Undersows will usually be perfectly fine with any boar that has been accepted by the top sow, but as the boar has to slot in somewhere in the group hierarchy (which is distinct from the sow hierarchy), you may see some dominance over the following few days or weeks until the new husboar has slotted in where belongs.
If you can, please date your girls at Honeybunnies; acceptance should happen quickly after first contact and immdiately morph into a dominance sort-out with the top sow, so it generally won't take all that long to see whether a bond is going to work out or not. Ideally, you do not want to see any hostile signs past some "leave my butt alone" teeth chattering.
How dramatic things get, depends largely on the personalities involved, the age of the boar and how dominant he is. I have seen anything from two days of testosterone overload to a mature boar basically just moving into an established group of sows used to living with a husboar with minimal fuss.
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I always thought Edward would be the boss with my two ladies.Turns out he is a big coward and does what they tell him 
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