HELP! Bullying?

SavyCavyGirl

SavyCavyGirl

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So I’ve had guinea pigs for about almost three months, and they have always kind of messed with each other and chased- but it was playful till recently. My dominant guinea pig has started to like really hassle my other pig, chasing her, jumping on her, and my other piggy squeals from being scared, but my other one just won’t let up. I separated them for now, they each have access to water, hay, and equal amounts of room. Also my dominating one is rumba strutting right now. Should I put them back together? I really don’t know the protocol for this.
 

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Also, they have a 2x2 loft that I am washing the fleece for because I only have one. So they can’t go up there right now- are they fighting over that?
 
How old are they?
Is she perhaps having a strong season?
The squealing from the submissive is not scared, it’s most likely submission squealing. She is literally telling the other that she is no threat to her dominance.
Is the submissive allowed to eat and rest?
 
Yes. She is, unless Roxi my dominant one wants the hidey. They’re both about a year and a half old. Should I put them back together again?
 
You need to put them together on neutral ground first and clean then rearrange their cage. The top pig has pick of the hides and where they eat.
 
Ok thank you! I’ll clean the cage and put them together. They are talking to each other and have seemed to calm down.
 
SavyCavyGirl said:
So I’ve had guinea pigs for about almost three months, and they have always kind of messed with each other and chased- but it was playful till recently. My dominant guinea pig has started to like really hassle my other pig, chasing her, jumping on her, and my other piggy squeals from being scared, but my other one just won’t let up. I separated them for now, they each have access to water, hay, and equal amounts of room. Also my dominating one is rumba strutting right now. Should I put them back together? I really don’t know the protocol for this.
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Hi!

If you have sows, please leave them together. A strong season is over within a day, and your girls will make up again afterwards. The hormonal excess often works to bond them together more closely. Seasons tend to be strongest around 6 months of age; which is the age corresponding to the boar life time testosterone high. Sows also experience this in the wide variance as boars but because their teenage only rarely results in fights and fall-outs, it is not well known.

Nonstop seasons for weeks on end in adult sows, typically between age 2-4 years are caused by ovarian cysts and will require veterinary intervention; you can find more information on that in the sow guide link below.

You may find these guide links here helpful:
When Sows Experience A Strong Season (videos)
Sows: Behaviour and female health problems (including ovarian cysts)
 
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