Hi all
After some advice please. We lost our boar a month ago , and successfully (we thought ) bonded him at a rescue with another single boar. We have had both together in a 2 x 4 C&C cage indoors for 4 weeks now with no problems until this week when the new boar, Willow, has been demonstrating dominance behaviours like mounting and chasing Cocoa. Nothing major until this evening when we heard loud squeaking and found Willow relentlessly chasing and mounting poor Cocoa. I divided the cage down the middle with C&C grids and separated them. At this point Willow started to go mad, biting the grids, trying to burrow under and literally flinging himself at them trying to get back to Cocoa. It was clear that the grids would not stand up to it all night so I had to make the decision to put Willow in a completely separate cage unfortunately. They cannot see each other but can smell and hear each other. Both are now calm. Kids are very upset and I don't know where to go from here to be honest. Cocoa was bullied a bit by his old mate and is a submissive older pig, but Willow was so aggressive tonight it was quite shocking. Any advice? Bigger cage? I changed their fleece today but have done that numerous times before with no problems. Cocoa is around 4yo and Willow around 2 yo, both rescues. Thanks all x
After some advice please. We lost our boar a month ago , and successfully (we thought ) bonded him at a rescue with another single boar. We have had both together in a 2 x 4 C&C cage indoors for 4 weeks now with no problems until this week when the new boar, Willow, has been demonstrating dominance behaviours like mounting and chasing Cocoa. Nothing major until this evening when we heard loud squeaking and found Willow relentlessly chasing and mounting poor Cocoa. I divided the cage down the middle with C&C grids and separated them. At this point Willow started to go mad, biting the grids, trying to burrow under and literally flinging himself at them trying to get back to Cocoa. It was clear that the grids would not stand up to it all night so I had to make the decision to put Willow in a completely separate cage unfortunately. They cannot see each other but can smell and hear each other. Both are now calm. Kids are very upset and I don't know where to go from here to be honest. Cocoa was bullied a bit by his old mate and is a submissive older pig, but Willow was so aggressive tonight it was quite shocking. Any advice? Bigger cage? I changed their fleece today but have done that numerous times before with no problems. Cocoa is around 4yo and Willow around 2 yo, both rescues. Thanks all x