piggl
Forum Donator 2024/25
My two boars were removed from each other due to an abscess removal on the younger one (Remi) that was having issues with swelling/fluid. I separated them as I could not allow his cagemate (Reggie) to continually push under his neck.
This Sunday I decided to try bond them together again in a clean neutral cage. They went together fine but there was quite a lot of dominance/tense-ness between them both. They were together until this lunchtime, got along fine sometimes but there was a lot of chasing/nipping from Remi, things felt very tense.
Well this morning I was trying to get videos of their interactions to try and get a second opinion from the lovely people of the forums and unfortunately things became too much for them and they had a full on fight. Thankfully I was standing by and had a bath mat near me, so neither of the pigs were hurt.
I have re-added the barrier in their cage for the time being.
Remi is still healing from his procedure two weeks later but he is very close to his wound fully healing.
My dilemma is that they usually live in a hutch outdoors, which makes it unusable as a side by side home. I have thought about it and I really can not give one of them up for adoption. Even the thought of it makes me want to weep, and the fear of what life they might go into not in my care anymore is too much. I do suffer with anxiety, but any piggy parent would struggle to give one of their piggies away.
This then takes me to my question. I have the space and the grids to make up a very large C&C run for them daily, but they can not live in this 24/7 due to the weather/cold here in NE Scotland.
Can they live one on top of each other from 9pm-9am, they will still be able to hear/smell each other. They will then be in the C&C cage together from 9-9 during the day apart from if the weather really bad, in which they will have to stay in their cage.
This way I can keep both my babies, they both get a clean/warm space to sleep and the face-to-face interaction from 9-9.
This Sunday I decided to try bond them together again in a clean neutral cage. They went together fine but there was quite a lot of dominance/tense-ness between them both. They were together until this lunchtime, got along fine sometimes but there was a lot of chasing/nipping from Remi, things felt very tense.
Well this morning I was trying to get videos of their interactions to try and get a second opinion from the lovely people of the forums and unfortunately things became too much for them and they had a full on fight. Thankfully I was standing by and had a bath mat near me, so neither of the pigs were hurt.
I have re-added the barrier in their cage for the time being.
Remi is still healing from his procedure two weeks later but he is very close to his wound fully healing.
My dilemma is that they usually live in a hutch outdoors, which makes it unusable as a side by side home. I have thought about it and I really can not give one of them up for adoption. Even the thought of it makes me want to weep, and the fear of what life they might go into not in my care anymore is too much. I do suffer with anxiety, but any piggy parent would struggle to give one of their piggies away.
This then takes me to my question. I have the space and the grids to make up a very large C&C run for them daily, but they can not live in this 24/7 due to the weather/cold here in NE Scotland.
Can they live one on top of each other from 9pm-9am, they will still be able to hear/smell each other. They will then be in the C&C cage together from 9-9 during the day apart from if the weather really bad, in which they will have to stay in their cage.
This way I can keep both my babies, they both get a clean/warm space to sleep and the face-to-face interaction from 9-9.