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In my infinite wisdom I thoguht that i would make a large C+C cage and put all 5 of my boars in together for company etc .....
Bliddy hell ...... I canot believe what happened....
The cage was brand new so no smells....alll stuff I put in was fresh and new so I thought hey lets go for it...got a couple of hours to spare to supervise them .... why not ?
Dear oh dear oh dear....I have never in my life seen anything so chaotic. I had Lenny and George in one cage and Hamish, Pickles and Bumble in another. Lenny and Geaorge are 3 years old, Hamish is 6 months old and Pickles and Bumble are around 8 weeks old. I would have put money on Lenny and George trying to dominate but you never know how wrong you can be. Hamish .... the beast ... set out for a full blown attack as soon as he clapped eyes on George...George who is normally so placid set out to attck him and the others all set out to join in (apart from Bumble who just weaved in and out of the whole sorry commotion). Eventually they settled down and went to sleep. I went for a well deserved glass of the red stuff. Came to go to bed and they were at it again. Lenny ...poor guy .... was cowering in the corner. Enough is enough so I removed Lenny and George and the poor dears had to spend the night in the hospital tuff crate as my OH (in his wisdom !) had cleaned and put the cages in the garages and it was 3am.
On checking the next day thoroughly for injuries George has a cut lip...Hamish has a cut nose and Lenny has 6 or so largish scabs on his back. Now I didn't think this was down to the fighting as he wasn't that involved so I reckon this was mites. Back to vets who gave me Xeno 450 for him and said the wounds were quite deep....
Have I missed these wounds and they've been there for days ? Were they caused with the fighting ? is it mites ? I just don't know....looks like mites as he had them when he was a baby ( I suspect came from P@H with them) and it looks exactly the same ... anyway treating as mites and keeping an eye on him but safe to say I've given up and put the old boys back in their own cage and left the 3 others in the C+C
Bliddy hell ...... I canot believe what happened....
The cage was brand new so no smells....alll stuff I put in was fresh and new so I thought hey lets go for it...got a couple of hours to spare to supervise them .... why not ?
Dear oh dear oh dear....I have never in my life seen anything so chaotic. I had Lenny and George in one cage and Hamish, Pickles and Bumble in another. Lenny and Geaorge are 3 years old, Hamish is 6 months old and Pickles and Bumble are around 8 weeks old. I would have put money on Lenny and George trying to dominate but you never know how wrong you can be. Hamish .... the beast ... set out for a full blown attack as soon as he clapped eyes on George...George who is normally so placid set out to attck him and the others all set out to join in (apart from Bumble who just weaved in and out of the whole sorry commotion). Eventually they settled down and went to sleep. I went for a well deserved glass of the red stuff. Came to go to bed and they were at it again. Lenny ...poor guy .... was cowering in the corner. Enough is enough so I removed Lenny and George and the poor dears had to spend the night in the hospital tuff crate as my OH (in his wisdom !) had cleaned and put the cages in the garages and it was 3am.
On checking the next day thoroughly for injuries George has a cut lip...Hamish has a cut nose and Lenny has 6 or so largish scabs on his back. Now I didn't think this was down to the fighting as he wasn't that involved so I reckon this was mites. Back to vets who gave me Xeno 450 for him and said the wounds were quite deep....
Have I missed these wounds and they've been there for days ? Were they caused with the fighting ? is it mites ? I just don't know....looks like mites as he had them when he was a baby ( I suspect came from P@H with them) and it looks exactly the same ... anyway treating as mites and keeping an eye on him but safe to say I've given up and put the old boys back in their own cage and left the 3 others in the C+C