introducing bertie to pansy any tips?

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i'm soo nervous yet excited. i hope it alll goes well with them!
i just want to give the best chance of it being successful. any tips would be appreciated! :)
 
Ooooo good luck with it. I dont have any girls, so cant advise but excited for you. Berties op will have been all worth while O0
 
Hi Cavy love,

I have recently introduced Fluffy to Patch and Ginger successfully this is what I did.
I put a divider in the cage for a few days so that they could see each other but not get to each other.
Then I put them down on the floor together with lots of food and some hiding places and kept an eye on them. I was very lucky because my girls got on straight away. I did that for 4 days and on the fourth day gave the cage a good clean so that it became neutral with no smells and put them in all together.
As I said I was lucky and they got on straight away but for some piggies it might take a bit longer.
Good luck and let us know how you get on.

Laure
 
Hi i've recently tried introducing my girls to Ralfie unsucessfully, and then got him a baby and he loves her and she loves him, i think it depends on the sows, mine are teens and very rumbly, mine lived in a C&C with a divider for about 4 weeks then the first time i tried to inroduce them i did it in the indoor run with lots of space, hidey houses and food, they were ok to begin with but within half an hour Bee had gone for Ralfie 3 times and there was constant chattering between them all, i tried again the next day but the chattering was instantaneous and she went for him again but properly. It definately depends on the sow, if it had been just bumble they'd have been fine she seemed to like him but i wouldnt separate my girls, Good luck and keep us posted :) sorry cant offer any tips as obviously it didnt work for me! x
 
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well we've had their cages next to each other for a while now, so today, we let them out for floor time on neutral territory for 20 mins. there was a lot of rumblestrutting from bertie and trying to get on her a bit ::) pansy did get a bit annoyed with this, and ran way, he chased after her a lot. but she seemed to go up to him a bit as well, adn they were talking and there was no nastiness, like there was when i tried pansy with peony and bluebell, so i think it's going well. i had thought about doing this for a few days, increasing the time each time, and then if all goes well, put them in the hutch and watch carefully to see what happens. is that a good plan? :)
 
It depends on personalities a LOT. Someone who has just adopted from me brought her castrated boar and sow out to choose another sow, the boar wasn't fussed and her sow was too bothered either. I advised her that when she got home to only let them have one layer of the C+C cage so no one got chased upstairs and was frightened to come down and to take out ALL the houses, if need be make a roof over the C+C partially with a large towel but she didn't.

The 3 were left to sort themselves out. There was no biting just barging from the original sow and general bossiness. New sow was frightened of this and squealed because of it but they were still left. 3 weeks later new sow is standing her ground and original sow is perfectly happy with her being there. In this case I think the original sow was trying to get the newbie to stand up for herself- rather like mothers in a herd do with their babies.

New sow is still a shy guinea but she always was the background pig that waits for the others to get food and then steals it (she does this in her new home now ::) )

I think you have to judge it on their reaction. Some need it done over a period of time others need to be left in my opinion. If they're OK on neutral ground then I've found that generally they can be left to sort things out (whatever they are ::) )
 
Sounds to me like it's working :) I certainly knew that Bee didn't like Ralfie after about half an hour. With the baby we just put her in because we kind of thought we'd know soon enough if it wasnt going to work and we could just take her out, we put her straight in his cage with all the houses etc but neither went in them and they got on from the start, there was a lot of rumbling from Ralfie and a few half hearted attempts at mounting but generally he seemed to like her and she loved him and followed him everywhere (i think thats a baby thing though, she kind of knew he was the boss and got on with it, she seems to look up to him) she isnt at all phased by his rumbling and isnt a scared baby, if i were you i'd give them a bit longer like say 30 mins and see how they are, i think you'd know within an hour though, just from my experience. People say some sows dont mind the boar but just take a while to settle down, others love them from the start and others hate them from the start (like bee) i think wih these though you can tell within 30 mins! if theres been no attacking in an hour i'd say you'd be ok to put her in his cage etc! sorry if I'm waffling, sounds as if yours is going well though :) good luck! x
 
oh it's good :) YAY! i'm going to try them in the cage today so wish me luck! :laugh:
 
*sighs* after thinking it was going so well we put them in their hutch together. now it's a 2 storey hutch, so i could see it could be difficult, but thats the only free one. there was a LOT of rumbling from bertie, trying to get on her, they kept putting their heads underneath each others chins and stuff and pansy was getting annoyed. then it became apparent, that bertie was ruling the top layer, with the bed. he was in the bed, pansy went up, and bertie rumbled at her and headbutted her away. so she went down. she kept trying, and it kept happening. then bertie went down, and she beated him to getting into the bed first, so she was in there, then he tried to get in, she let him go so far and then bit him quite viciously twice. :'( no drawing blood, but viciously. what do i do? :'(
 
Hmm, well i'd say maybe separate them and try again for 20mins in a bit, as karen has said some of them take ages to accept eachother, if it was just annoyance you've still got a chance but if she lunges at him or attacks him again maybe its not going to work, i hope it does x
 
right now they are not actually fighting, but staying on 'their' layers, soo what i think i'll do is put them in a single story hutch and put the others in the 2 storey one, and see how that goes. :-\
 
yes id try that, it sounds like a good idea, try taking all the hidey houses out too so no1 gets possesive!
 
arghh BERTIE! >:( why can't he be as lovely as he is on his own towards her? we tried them in the 1 storey cage, and then bertie was rumbling and getting aggressive - pansy put up with it for a bit, but he started circling her and doing almost trying to nip her, so in the end she nipped him can't say i really blame her :( and then he wouldn't let her get in the bed, she ran in once cos she was scared and he started rumbling, and when i came back she was out again. :'( sooo we've separated them, and we'll try again tomorrow. i really wish that they'd get on, i don't understand, why bertie's being like that, i thought he liked her. :-\
 
it just hasn't worked, they were working up for a proper fight, so thats that. we have got pansy a beautiful little girlie friend, and bertie will have to be on his own with a LOT of fussing.
 
thanks, she's very shy, so i'll have to let her settle in, but i will take pictures soon! she's sooo cute! as are all of them :smitten: :smitten:
i could try bertie with the girlies, but i'm worried that the hutch won't be big enough :-\
 
thanks sooo much for that idea! we tried bertie with the girlies, and it seems to be going REALLY well, straight away! YIPEE! :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: i'm just leaving them too it, but will report back! it's looking GOOD!
 
i think they're fine! they stayed together all last night, as they were fine, and they're still fine this morning. checked last thing last night, and they were all in the bed together huddled up, so thats GREAT! and suuuuch a releif. now all i have to do is get mimi (pansy's new friend) better and then they can go together too! i'm putting some pics of mimi in the photo gallery, if you want to see. :)
 
they're still fine so that is soo great and such a releif, they're all really happy and play around with each other :smitten: :smitten:
 
Awwww :smitten: I'm really lad it worked for you, its so stressful when you think nobody is getting along! You'll have to post some pics of them all for us :)
 
I have 3 boars. Reggie, Gus and Horace. I got Reggie first then got Gus to keep him company. Tried for ages to bond them giving them floor time and lap time together but it just wasn't to be. I think Reggie was too mental for Gus! There was lots of teeth chattering and lunging so eventually I had to put a divider between them. Then I rescued Horace. At first I thought he would be bonded with Gus but the same thing happened there, lots of teeth chattering and aggressive behaviour from Gus so I tried Horace with Reggie at floor time and they were great lots of rumbling from Reggie but he is a bit of a rumbler, he even does it to me ;D ;D! Anyway I've just put them in the same cage this afternoon and it's been a lot different this time. Reggie is still rumbling and chasing Horace but Horace seems to be standing his ground so fingers crossed! I too think it must have a lot to do with the piggy's personality. Gus is just a lone pig and quite happy just looking through the divider at Reggie and Horace.
 
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