Please share your "blood has been drawn" stories

[Rocketpunk]

Ok, it seems like the be all, end all tale of two piggies falling out is when blood is drawn.

Thankfully my bully of an under-alpha sow hasn't drawn blood from the alpha, YET. They were super tight two weeks ago. Now they can't stand each other's presence.

I've had to just sit there and watch them go nuts. I do my best to stay out of it, but it ALWAYS looks like it will end in blood being drawn. But yet it never does.

I'm just waiting for the off-hand moment where I am distracted by something else, and the next thing I know the piggies have flipped the f out and mauled each other till one or both is bleeding.

At that point -- all hope is lost, right?

Please share your "they drew blood" stories so I can have a reference. Thanks for your time!

 

[Midge&Panda]

We have a group of 5 sows and back in May found a little boar to adopt and become 'husboar' to them. They all had supervised individual meetings and everything seemed fine. After the 6 week period after neutering was up we decided to introduce them as a group. There was the usual rumblings ans chattering of teeth but nothing serious. After a couple of hours supervised time when all seemed well we left them to it. Big mistake for us, Midge (we think) had been annoying Albert when he decided to bite through her nose almost severing it completely. He now interacts with the girls only through the bars of his cage. Or supervised floor-time with Panda- the only girl that gets on with him.

 

[mysteriousdave]

I got 2 baby boars in Feb, and around June time they started getting more and more aggressive to each other. Unfortunately both wanted to be in charge!

There were a few scratches and a bit of mounting, so I thought it would be ok! Unfortunately one evening there was an almighty crash and Sherlock had scratched Watsons nose and caused it to bleed something awful. Poor Watson didn't know what to do with himself.

Fortunately I'd just bought a C&C cage so they'd have more room, so I could split it down the middle. It's stayed that way since. They seem having enough living side by side, but when I put them both on the floor they start getting all aggressive again. I need to sort something out cage wise, as with the 2 x 4 split into 2 x 2 it's too small for them. What a pain!

I'm hoping maybe in the future they might be happy living together, but I'm not holding my breath.

 

[Rocketpunk]

My sows have ample cage room, and two of everything (water bottles, pellet dishes, hidey tubes).

Sasha is the older one, and quite bigger than Penny, the younger one. When they were first introduced, Sasha rumbled and there was chin raising, but zero chasing or fear-wheeks. Now it seems like Penny has a stick up her butt and holds a grudge against Sasha. She's waaaaaay more aggressive than Sasha ever was, but she's quite a bit smaller than Sasha.

And yet Penny bullies Sasha constantly, every day. Sometimes Sasha will wheek in fear even when Penny's on the other side of the cage.

This is going on WAY longer than I feel it should. Blood has not been drawn, but it's CONSTANT antagonizing. I mean, CONSTANT.