Guinea pigs fighting -Blood involved!

[Panties15]

Hello last July I bought two boars from the same litter, they've been fine with each other for nearly a year now, but one is bigger than the other. Recently the bigger one (Morris) has been teeth chattering and physically attacking Neville.
They are not competing for space because they are spoiled with an indoor and out run etc, this started a few days ago, and it was only today that I noticed Neville was missing hair and was bleeding, they've been separated for the past two nights!
Would castration work? Although that is really expensive and I just can't afford it, or lady guinea pig friends? I don't want to get rid of any of my pigs -

Any suggestions? Thanks

 

[flintstones]

Castration won't change there behaviour but it will allow them to live separately with a girl guinea pig but they wouldn't be able to live together in the same cage.

 

[Member W]

sorry but neutering guinea pigs doesn't affect hormone levels so wont alter behaviour at all.
i'm afraid that bonded boars can sometimes fall out with each other for no reason at any time, and the fact that blood is being drawn shows that it's not just abit of posturing or sorting the pecking order or anything like that. it's real violence the only thing i could suggest is to seperate them, you could try reintroduce them to each other after a couple of weeks for supervised playtime and see if they get on any better by bonding them all over again, but don't hold your breath. i definately wouldn't add any more pigs into the mix, boars tend to fight if they are with more than one male or might compete for a lady pig and the fighting will ultimately get worse. really if it were me i would seperate them permanantly and maybe take them boar dating to find them a new friend each x

 

[bessiehen]

Hi, I had to separate my pigs after their fights escalated. We have a C and C cage and they live right next to each other in two separate compartments. Because of the large grids, they can (and quite often do) go up to each other for a squeak and a kiss (that's what it looks like anyway) and they can see / hear / smell each other. I also put toys or newspaper through the 'barrier' so they can play tug of war with each other.

We give them floor time every day, mostly they get on, sometimes they teeth chatter but we are always there to shoo them awayand they've not had a fight. We also bought thenm a large cat bed so every other day or so we plonk them in that together and they snuggle up, literally on top of each other, with no problems.

We tried them back together in the cage but they just don't get on now and seem Ok with their current arrangement.