Orson is crazy and smelly - advice!

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Okay well orson is only my second boar. Mork is mild mannered, placid and smells sweet.

Orson on the other hand is mental! He's really hyper when held. I have had shy guineas before (Bessie and Gypsy were really petrified) but he's really really full on. He tries to escape like mad and is full on energetically trying to get away. I held off holding him for a week and he's still nuts.

He's got a big cage now - it's 2 floors and not massive but big enough for a few months. He tears up and down the ramp and round and round and round going mad. This doesn't worry me too much as some of my others have done this while babies, it's more the insanity of holding him.

Also he SMELLS! Seriously - he whiffs bad. It's not a poopy smell, it's not very nice though. Now do I need some 'just for boars'? Or is it just something that you put up with with boars?
 
How old is he? He sounds like he is in full grip of a testosterone overload! Is he kept near the girls?

You'd be amazed how much of a manly smell one little piggy can actually produce - his pee is full of it as well!
 
He's about 3 and a half months. I'm not sure exactly - he weighs about 605grams
 
Hormones... marvin stank too... he's **** not use to humans atall, you haven't had him long patience is a virtue. :)
 
I've not had him long no, but none of mine have been so feisty while being held.

I hope he does get tamer as he's freaking me out a bit.
 
He sounds like he's scent marking & yep it honks :)):))

He will become tamer the more he's handled; if he's a wriggler/jumper try wrapping him in a fleece/cuddle cup to keep him in one place whilst you stroke/handle him :)
 
I took him out yesterday twice. He takes food now from me when he's out but he eats it frantically like he needs to stuff it quick.

He also didn't smell like he had the day before. Phew! Mork isn't like that at all. Funny isn't it they are so different in the way they behave. Although Mork spent lots of time alone his baby-hood was very uneventful where as Orson has a ripped ear and lived with those rabbits that attacked him all the time. You can so tell the difference in temperment.

I'm sure he will calm down - my vet wont neuter him until he's between 4 and 5 months depending on his 'bits' so he's going to have a while to sort himself out before he goes in with the girls anyway - I don't think they'd be very impressed with his hyperactive-ness right now.
 
Orson has had a bout as rough a time as you can imagine, and it will take time and patience to get past that; but you will be able to get there. At the moment, you are just yet another big animal he feels threatened by.

That Orson is taking food of you is a good sign, and hopefully, soon he is going to see you as a source of all delights instead of of a monster!

My Llewelyn was rescued from a run he had to share with guinea pigs, rabbits AND chickens as part of a major rescue (he has a shredded ear from that time), and it took a long time to work past his finely honed survival instincts. (For weeks, Llewelyn was basically living in any safe nook or cranny he could find and would run off with any bit of food to wolf it down in safety...) Look at him now, two years on, and he's a pretted chilled out patriarch!
 
Chicken is a girl but the mad running is just like her too. She hates snuggles and will rather run off a cliff than let me catch her, but we're improving (or rather I'm getting less wimpy). I think piggy boys smell in their teenage "years" just like the human equivalent...

Orson has a lot to be happy about, maybe the running is about that? :)
 
I think the running may be as he only started that once he got his upstairs large pad. He figured out the ramp and began running up and down and round and round as he finally had a nice space to himself.

He's also finally figured out he can wheek wheek when dinner is close. That's cute. he was the only one doing it the other day and I didn't recognise the wheek - turned out to be him.

I am just about to do the big clean out now - he whiffs! rolleyes
 
Wiebke said:
Orson has had a bout as rough a time as you can imagine, and it will take time and patience to get past that; but you will be able to get there. At the moment, you are just yet another big animal he feels threatened by.

That Orson is taking food of you is a good sign, and hopefully, soon he is going to see you as a source of all delights instead of of a monster!

My Llewelyn was rescued from a run he had to share with guinea pigs, rabbits AND chickens as part of a major rescue (he has a shredded ear from that time), and it took a long time to work past his finely honed survival instincts. (For weeks, Llewelyn was basically living in any safe nook or cranny he could find and would run off with any bit of food to wolf it down in safety...) Look at him now, two years on, and he's a pretted chilled out patriarch!
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That's nice to know. I don't mind waiting as long as there is a chance of light at the end of thr tunnel.
 
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