Forget my last post - should I split them up if they are lunging at each other!?

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Ive bathed two boars, dried them and put them down on neutral ground. They have spent the last 10-15 mins loud loud teeth chattering at each other and jumping at each other but they have not nipped or bit each other..... they just loud teeth chatter, stare at each other, ump over the other one and then run off only to start it again.

Do I separate them before they actually bite? The sticky said they are showing serious agression signs (except the biting!) and that they should be separated..but I have been told not to separate until they actually draw blood.

HELP! THIS IS A SOS!

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why wait until they draw blood? can you put them in cages side by side so they can see each other? have you just got them? sorry i have nt seen your other post
 
I am not an expert at all, so would welcome anyone correcting me, but personally I would separate them now. Put them in cages side by side so they can still see each other and see if things calm down a bit.
 
i have just seen in your other post you say they hate each other, so probably no amount of bathing will help, i would ppart them before serious injury happens
 
Thanks for helping me!

Ive had them for two months, had to split them up after two days as I was worried they were going to hurt each other. They live side by side now in a C&C cage, but one of them seems to be losing confidence and seems quite lonely. I got some advice from some lovely people on here to bathe them and let them try work out their differences as they might sort things out.

I just dont wanna ruin all the bathing, cleaning the cage and time ive put into bonding by being over protective! Apparently it looks bad to us but to them it isn't so rough?

Just stressed loads, hate seeing them fighting!
 
they will be fine side by side, give them time to cool off, it really sounds to me like this wont work, we have one on his own in a c&c cage, witha grid diviving him and two others, he does nt seem at all lonely. x and you have nt wasted time bathing them bet they smell nice!
 
Thanks :) gonna pop them back into their nice clean cages now.

At least I tried! The things these guys put us through!

Thanks again x
 
to be honest i think this kind of thing stresses us more than them- think about it, to them this is natural behaviour but it doesn't look it to us does it?
I had the exact same thing with 2 boars recently and the lungin freaked me out. So i seperated for a few days (until the weekend basically when I could try again) and when I did try again it was all good. So i put them in the same cage. We had lots of teeth chattering for a week or two but now it's blown over. Flinn did have a mild graze on his lip but no proper blood shed. Fingers crossed its all good.

My point is go with your gut but do remember this is normal and they do need to work through it, if it never passes then fine but a lot of the time it does. if not then see if they will live side by side and you can try an introduction when the hormonal stage has passed, if they're currently youngsters.
Good luck! :)
 
I am not an expert but you could try swapping the sides of the c&c they are on so they get used to each others scent then try moving everything round in one clean cage so that it is completely neutral ground to both of them.
 
gogoguineas said:
to be honest i think this kind of thing stresses us more than them- think about it, to them this is natural behaviour but it doesn't look it to us does it?
I had the exact same thing with 2 boars recently and the lungin freaked me out. So i seperated for a few days (until the weekend basically when I could try again) and when I did try again it was all good. So i put them in the same cage. We had lots of teeth chattering for a week or two but now it's blown over. Flinn did have a mild graze on his lip but no proper blood shed. Fingers crossed its all good.

My point is go with your gut but do remember this is normal and they do need to work through it, if it never passes then fine but a lot of the time it does. if not then see if they will live side by side and you can try an introduction when the hormonal stage has passed, if they're currently youngsters.
Good luck! :)
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Thanks for replying :)

I had them out for an hour, and some of the time they were fine, others doing the whole lunging thing but they never bit. I put them back into their cage and put the division up, scared to leave them overnight in case they do bite each other and do some serious damage.

I might try them out together tomorrow night again and see what happens, give them a bit of cooling off time?

They are only 6 months old at the moment so hopefully once they are "men" lol they will be friends again :(

How are your guys now? Still getting along? x
 
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harold_the_pig said:
I am not an expert but you could try swapping the sides of the c&c they are on so they get used to each others scent then try moving everything round in one clean cage so that it is completely neutral ground to both of them.
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Thats a great idea! I did swap them over every few days this week, and took down their whole cage and scrubbed the whole lot tonight. Maybe I should keep swapping and switching through the week x

or maybe i should take the barrier down completely?mallethead
 
They're doing well thanks, much less teeth chattering, just the occaisonal chace round the cage lol :))
The advice i took from the rescue where they came from was that if its sporadic lunging and teeth chattering and not all the time then to perservere, pigs who hate each other will not drop it. I found mine were doing it when they got in each others faces so they now have a bigger cage and this has helped a lot.

I know what you mean about worrying they'll hurt each other, if YOU personally feel better about them being apart over night then go for it and try again in the day, this might help them cool off. Whe I seperated mine, the smaller of the two spent the day in the pet carrier because things kicked off at about 7am when i was getting ready for work! I was like argh what do i do?! and i couldnt get a spare cage until the evening so it was tough lol but i went to work from 8.30am-5pm safe in the knowledge they couldn't hurt each other.

The teenage phase starts at 3 months and can last up until 15 months but in my experience normally eases off by the time they're a year old then aside from the odd boarly squabble, peace is resumed! it's different for every pig tho, one of my others, Tyler is 6 months now and other than rumble strutting has never been too hormonal at all!
Boys eh? rolleyes
 
I'm so glad you're guys have calmed down, it's such a horrible feeling when they are having a go at each other!

I had a similar situation when I first got these two little piggers, they started going crazy and I had to pop Scruff in a big box until I could build them separate cages.

Honestly I have never said this before but MEN! HHMMPPHH! lol :)
 
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