New Friends

[CAROL-ANNE]

feeling much better having read the item on dominance behaviors. Introduced two females to my sow and nuetured boar. One of the new sow's has just finished feeding her babies and is also completely blind. My girl Song is showing these behaviors towards the newbees, She is fine one minutes then pushes them out of the way with her nose or bum, sometimes she runs across the cage to do this and barges into them. When she is sniffing at the blind one's bottom it wheeks very loudly I am guessing this is submission from her. Song has not bit any of them but she is a bully am I right in saying that this is normal.

 

[Wiebke]

You are right, that is normal and she is asserting her dominance. Hopefully, it will calm down sooner if she is not meeting any opposition to her claim.

 

[VickiA]

As @Wiebke says, sounds completely normal.