Help With Bonding Please?

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Cavy Lover

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I recently got a new baby pig Luna. I now am trying to bond her with my other pig. I have three other sows and a neutered boar. Peaches my neutered boar is bum sniffing and rumble strutting. Beano my sow is biting. Cookie another sow is completely ignoring her. She is used to babies as she had a litter. Smudge the youngest sow is fighting now and again.
Does anyone have some tips on bonding?
 
Cavy Lover said:
I recently got a new baby pig Luna. I now am trying to bond her with my other pig. I have three other sows and a neutered boar. Peaches my neutered boar is bum sniffing and rumble strutting. Beano my sow is biting. Cookie another sow is completely ignoring her. She is used to babies as she had a litter. Smudge the youngest sow is fighting now and again.
Does anyone have some tips on bonding?
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Just put them all together either on the lawn or in a neutral indoors area. Baby piggies are generally not difficult to bond into a group, as they cannot upset the existing hierarchy. The worst of the dominance is likely to come from the sow just above in the rankings.
https://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/threads/introducing-and-re-introducing-guinea-pigs.38562/
https://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/threads/dominance-behaviours-in-guinea-pigs.28949/

Here is a picture from my own bonding of a 5 month old girl into one of my groups last Thursday.
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If they seem OK, put them back in the cage, but remove any hideys and nooks with only one exit as the little one will be firmly chucked around for a few days while the hierarchy resettles. You have to sit through this; hopefully, it is going to be on the mild side.
 
@Wiebke should I just go with it and put Luna in with the others tonight and see how she goes overnight or should I wait. They seem to get on alright. But I am worried.
 
Cavy Lover said:
@Wiebke should I just go with it and put Luna in with the others tonight and see how she goes overnight or should I wait. They seem to get on alright. But I am worried.
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Go with it! As long as there is no sign of real high end agression and tension (chasing and nipping is only mild to medium dominance behaviour), don't separate and let them get on with it.
 
Keep on trying , just putting them together on common ground is all that is usually needed , never needed to bathe them or any of the popular methods
Though on saying that I have a sow (Belleret) who hates every pig that comes near her

I would say numeral ground and hold you nerve , I am sure the fear smells we produce feeds back to the pigs,

By the way I am still trying with Bellaet,
 
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