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I am trying to bond a nearly three week old boar with his dad as I wanted to house them together!But it doesnt seem to be working out. The older male chases the baby around and sniffs him and makes his rumble noise, and the baby is so afraid,there is no biting or teeth chattering!
The baby boar is starting to mount his mother!he will be three weeks old on saturday and I am afraid he will impregnate her if I dont sort something out soon.
I have a spare cage to house the baby boar on his own but he gets very upset when he thinks he is alone!
Anyone have any suggestions or advice please!
 
Are your males housed around your females? That alone is enough to cause upset to the boys as they will be fighting for the rights to mate so to speak.. So if you can house the boys in a different area of the house where they can't see or smell your female then it should be okay. I'm sure someone else more knowledgeable will be along soon to help :) good luck!
 
The behaviour you've described is entirely normal for a male meeting a youngster. Your male will be excited to meet him and also be showing his dominance - as long as it doesn't become bullying then it should all settle down, just give it some time. The baby will also smell of mum to start with, which helps the situation as it will mean the male doesn't see him as a male and allows them to bond before the male hormones kick in. Once you have separated the baby from mum, at no earlier than 21 days, then do not take him out from the male - they will go through the meeting phase each time they get introduced and this is the most stressful time in bonding.

Do not separate from mum earlier than 21 days and then only if the baby has reached 250g in weight and is showing too much interest in mum or sisters. Baby boys practice mating before being able to impregnate a female, so please do not panic and separate earlier than 21 days.

HTH

Suzy x
 
Don't worry it is totally normal behaviour as they others have described. I have just put my new piggie Rufus in with my older piggie Winston about 30mins ago. And they are running about the cage. Poor Rufus is looking a bit lost by this. But it's normal, dominance needs to be established. As long as there is no biting, no obvious signs of bullying then everything will be fine.
I'm bonding my two so any questions just ask! x
 
Thanks everyone!
That link really helped. The baby male will be 21 days old tomorrow so I am going to leave them together then :^- Really hope they get on ok!
I didn't realise that when I take them away from each other and then put them back that its back to square one!
And the hutch I have is a double universal one so the males will be on top and the females on the bottom, do * think that this will cause problems? If I was to change the hutch but keep them in the same room would they still smell the females?

Thanks again! :)
 
I couldn't leave the two boars togther, The older one (teddy) seemed so mean to the baby!
He would run after him and bite him,the little one was terrified!and I felt so bad so I took him away!
He would just sit there and cry the whole time, or else wheek very loud! :(
So now I have two paired females - who are great together!
and two lone males - the older is neutured!
I was thinkin of putting some sort of divider between them for awile!?
 
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