Some of you may have seen the threads I put up about our two boars II and Spruce. Both were bereaved recently and we thought they had bonded well. Unfortunately last night we had to separate them, I would say 90% of the time there is no issue, they will occasionally rumble strut but rarely does it escalate, 9% of the time we got some teeth chattering but again it never seemed to escalate, unfortunately last night we had the full 9 yds and they faced off and ultimately fought, when I went into the room they scattered to either end of the cage and hid which was unusual as they tended to flight and hide together.
As such we have now closed off the middle of the cage and they will have to live apart, albeit next to each other. It makes me a bit sad that it didn't quite work as I did think they would be happier together but I can also understand why that might not be the case.
Not entirely sure why I'm posting this, maybe as much for information as anything. They had been together for around 2 weeks and there hadn't been any real escalations until this point (that we had seen).
So I guess my point is that despite what could be an initial successful bonding it takes time to for them to work it out and it may still all end in a a ball of flying fur.
As such we have now closed off the middle of the cage and they will have to live apart, albeit next to each other. It makes me a bit sad that it didn't quite work as I did think they would be happier together but I can also understand why that might not be the case.
Not entirely sure why I'm posting this, maybe as much for information as anything. They had been together for around 2 weeks and there hadn't been any real escalations until this point (that we had seen).
So I guess my point is that despite what could be an initial successful bonding it takes time to for them to work it out and it may still all end in a a ball of flying fur.