introducing piggies need advice!

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i have two boys around 6 weeks now and i am getting two unwanted babies. i of course have to make sure they are both boys when i get them next week but if so what is the best way to introduce 4 piggies together. i know it can be done i just havent done it! are babies easier to introduce together?
 
Keeping 4 males together is pretty much a recipe for disaster!
Keeping males in groups of higher than 2 is very, very difficult and almost never works. It's females that can be kept in large groups.
Please, for the safety of the piggies and at the risk of anyone getting hurt or seriously injured, do not keep all 4 together :(
 
Quartets of boars are even more unstable than trios, especially if the boars involved are subadult. You will find that once your little boys hit the big hormones and become stroppy teenagers, problems are guaranteed and separations usually the only option. You will most likely end up with two single boars and one remaining couple; at worst with four boars that won't go back together. The balance of compatible characters (the key to any successful boar bond) is very difficult to find and pretty impossible to keep through a time when boars are at their most volatile.

Personally, I would strongly advise you to keep your boys in couples! I know of only two or three boar quartets that have been successful over some time, and they have all involved fully adult or elderly and very laid back boars from people who had a fair number of boars and were able to do some juggling around in order to achieve a stable group.

There are stable big groups of boars, but these involve a much higher number and LOTS of space.

http://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=76162
http://www.susieandpigs.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/optionsmenu.htm
 
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hmmm ok i can keep them in groups of two for now does anyone think it would be easier if they get fixed? if there are any girls by accident i would either be fixing boys or girls anyway? i was asking because my friens elizabeth has 6 males together and they have always gotten along
 
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