Help - reintroducing males after they've been with girls - i know i've been stupid

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Yep, still in together. They are ignoring each other most of the time. Max is acting v dominant and Dansak has decided its friendlier in his own hut adn is acting all submissive and a bit quiet, but max is not actually trying to hurt dansak or push him out of D's hut and there is no major fighting. I figured that if they aren't actually trying to hurt each other then splitting them up might mean we've lost our one chance. Am i doing the right thing here in just leaving them to sort it out. Will D come out when he get hungry/thirsty?

Gardening gloves/dustpan and towel at the ready. But they've been in together and ignoring each other since last night.
 
If they are not fighting I would tough it out and see. Fingers crossed for you and the boys - I sincerely hope you've learnt from this. If you want more pigs, please get them from rescue. It's a drum that hit loudly and often on here as there are so many waiting for good homes.

Suzy x
 
Yeah I would wait and see what happens. It's a good sign that they haven't fought yet.

When I've been introducing boars it's scary when one is acting dominant and you feel like separating them, but you have to wait and see, they might calm down and be fine, or they might fight and have to be separated.

You could put some food and veggies into D's hut, in case he doesn't want to come out, and some hay would be good. :) But give the other guy some too, so he doesn't try to steal it from the other!
 
Max now in the hut and D currently has custody of the run. rest assured lesson well and trult learnt, even if by some miracle it turns out ok
 
hmm, now d back in hut, but he is venturing out into the run more.
 
how long ago have they been with the girls...?
it could just be that they have massive amount of testosterone running through them still...

give them some time to calm down...
let them sort it out...
along as they are not actively kill each other... no blood shed etc... i wouldnt worrie about dominenece too much... they need to sort the pecking order out again...
i really dont think its the end of these too necisserily...
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They were in with their respective girls for just over 2 weeks. D has taken up residence in teh cat carrier and isn't coming out. M keeps going in there and sitting in there with D for 30 secs, then coming out. No teeth chattering. Is he trying to break the ice? I'd have thought if he were trying to drive D out of there too he'd be fighting or teeth chattering at the least. HOpefully D is just being sensible and staying out of the way until M calms down. I haven't seen D come out for a drink yet though (that doesn't mean he hasn't come out for a drink, jsut not when i've been looking) - maybe if i don't see him come out tomorrow it may be time to separate - if D is too intimidated to come out to drink.
 
zez said:
They were in with their respective girls for just over 2 weeks. D has taken up residence in teh cat carrier and isn't coming out. M keeps going in there and sitting in there with D for 30 secs, then coming out. No teeth chattering. Is he trying to break the ice? I'd have thought if he were trying to drive D out of there too he'd be fighting or teeth chattering at the least. HOpefully D is just being sensible and staying out of the way until M calms down. I haven't seen D come out for a drink yet though (that doesn't mean he hasn't come out for a drink, jsut not when i've been looking) - maybe if i don't see him come out tomorrow it may be time to separate - if D is too intimidated to come out to drink.
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sorry... ment to ask how long has it been since they were seperated from the girls...
have you got any tunnels...?
i think they might be a good idea instead of hideys... so no one gets cornered...
theres always an escape route then...

although in readign that they are sharing the pet carrier even if its just for a small amount of time... i might be tempted to leave them too it...
id leave the cage and run how it is... no big changes... as i might set them off again...

i wouldnt think about seperating just yet...
my two bores when they were 6 months old... got in to a massive dominence fight and marley lost most of his ear....
they were seperated for a small amount of time and then were re-united and they are inseperable now...
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Wow, that's amazing that you were able to reintroduce them. There is one tunnel in there. I wanted to keep everythign with open ends, but poor D needed something to sleep in last night and keep warm since M wasn't letting him in the hutch!

They have been away from the girls from 24 hours. Max is noticably less agressive now. Its D I'm a little worried about as he is just hiding away, but then who would blame him after max was so cross with him!

Thanks so much for your advice
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zez said:
Wow, that's amazing that you were able to reintroduce them. There is one tunnel in there. I wanted to keep everythign with open ends, but poor D needed something to sleep in last night and keep warm since M wasn't letting him in the hutch!

They have been away from the girls from 24 hours. Max is noticably less agressive now. Its D I'm a little worried about as he is just hiding away, but then who would blame him after max was so cross with him!

Thanks so much for your advice
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oh.... its only been 24 hours...
they will still be all hormonal after being with the females so recently...
give them some time to work it out...
I'm sure they will be fine within a week...
its got to be a similar situation to the hormonal surge of a bore at 6 months old.... as they are both hormonal surges so to speak....
and if i compare it to my two when they fell out...they should work it out in a week or two...
good luck...
x
 
Thank you so much for giving me the confidence to wait and see for a bit x
 
So it chucked it down with rain last night. D's hut isn't exactly the place to be. Things were looking better, but poor D was still in his hut. They were in their summer hutch/run.

We have a big 6 foot winter hutch, which they haven't been in in months so is pretty much neutral territory. We thought we'd try in there with tubes etc for each to hide in. We've been out there with dustpan/towels watching them for half an hour. V minimal teeth chattering, no other dominance behaviours. M sniffed D's bum while D ate veggies. D still quiet, but the fact he ate while M was near is a v good thing I think. M happily eating from food bowl. M is allowing D into the bedding area and vise versa.

Fingers crossed. I am so praying we may have been incredibly incredibly lucky.

Off to check again.
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Well, they both have custody of both bits of the big winter hutch. Hubby has just put doors on the bottom level which we use for storage and added a carpeted ramp so when they work out how to use it they will have double the space. They are both eating (i can't tell you how happy i was to see D eating some veg, even when M walked right up to him). I am hopeful now. Thank you all for being understanding and looking past my giant mess up to help me work thorugh a solution . And massive NandP to Claire who has been helping me over PM. Thank you
 
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