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our piggies wookie and twinkie you there first fight wookie started rubble strutting until twinkie started burrowing we had to take twinkie out because she was so scared wondering what to do also twinkies having laboured breathing aftrwards help please
 
our piggies wookie and twinkie you there first fight wookie started rubble strutting until twinkie started burrowing we had to take twinkie out because she was so scared wondering what to do also twinkies having laboured breathing aftrwards help please
Hiya, my guinea pigs do that sometimes. It’s nothing to be concerned about! They just do it to show dominance, as long as they don’t full on attack each other neither of them come to any harm
 
Hiya, my guinea pigs do that sometimes. It’s nothing to be concerned about! They just do it to show dominance, as long as they don’t full on attack each other neither of them come to any harm
at first wookie went on top of twinkie and the later on it was vice versea lookin like the start of fight they have also been having little fights the past few days they are not full grown and both sows wich are around teenage years wondering if maybe they are setting there dominance as they haven’t before if that is the case should almost a second bonding be put in place?
 
at first wookie went on top of twinkie and the later on it was vice versea lookin like the start of fight they have also been having little fights the past few days they are not full grown and both sows wich are around teenage years wondering if maybe they are setting there dominance as they haven’t before if that is the case should almost a second bonding be put in place?
They may just be having a strong season. A second bonding wouldn’t do much apart from stress them out, and as long as they’re ‘little fights’ with no biting or anything that brings harm to the other pig, it isn’t much to worry about
 
They may just be having a strong season. A second bonding wouldn’t do much apart from stress them out, and as long as they’re ‘little fights’ with no biting or anything that brings harm to the other pig, it isn’t much to worry about
okay sounds good they were doing a little bit of nipping but twinkie was really stressed out
 
What looks stressful and distressing to us is often entirely normal to them. You need to let them get on with dominance and not interfere unless there are real problems. Mounting each other is entirely normal and nothing to worry about
 
When you say fight, what exactly do you mean? And how have they been behaving since separation? Have a read of the links below.
Sows: Behaviour and female health problems (including ovarian cysts)
When Sows Experience A Strong Season (videos)
Dominance Behaviours In Guinea Pigs
Bonds In Trouble
not the full on fights just the signs of a start like each of them going on top of each other and just little nips twinkie ended up burrowing where we couldn’t intervene if wookie went under there to so we had to pull them out thansk for the links i’ll give them a read
 
What looks stressful and distressing to us is often entirely normal to them. You need to let them get on with dominance and not interfere unless there are real problems. Mounting each other is entirely normal and nothing to worry about
okay thanks
 
not the full on fights just the signs of a start like each of them going on top of each other and just little nips twinkie ended up burrowing where we couldn’t intervene if wookie went under there to so we had to pull them out thansk for the links i’ll give them a read

Neither the mounting (going on top of each other) or the nips are the start of a fight. They are both normal dominance behaviours and in themselves are not concerning
 
Neither the mounting (going on top of each other) or the nips are the start of a fight. They are both normal dominance behaviours and in themselves are not concerning
alright it’s out first time experiencing any dominance before so just want to make sure everything is goin okay
 
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