Re-introducing my skinny boars

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Good morning all hope everyone has had a wonderful weekend.

So in my previous post/thread there had been a none visable fighting episode between Mr Gibbs and Sylvio my two skinny pig boars I had gathered there had been a fight as there was scratches on mainly Sylvio and what looked like puncture wounds (no visual blood) on his back which made me very anxious and due to being new to being a guinea mummy and not being able to get a reply as it was like 2/3am I felt no option but to put a divider on there enclosure.

This was 9 days ago and up until the last couple of days Sylvio had been constantly teeth chattering when Mr Gibbs came close to him on the other side of the divide. He's now not seeming to do this as much.

I am debating on attempting to put them back together. But a little apprehensive and not 100% sure how this is best done. I know that it's to be done on mutual territory, but wondered do I put them playing in mutual territory for a while then put them back in there divided enclosure and do this over a few days or do I leave them out In the mutual for x amount of hours / days.

If anyone is able to breif me and give me a little bullet point low down on how I would very much appreciate it as I have watched videos but nothing states time or if it's in small bursts or whatever.

Sorry for the super long essay.
Just wanted to make sure I am getting it right before attempting it

Jaqs, Mr Gibbs & Sylvio 💜
 
Bonding boars is all or nothing, one time event seen through to conclusion all on one day.

You put them in neutral territory - in their cage, somewhere neither of them sees as their normal territory, no hides in the bonding pen (just a pile of hay and water), to allow them to make up their minds about whether they want to remain together.

If they break out into a fight then sadly it means they don’t want to be together so will have to be separated permanently.

If all goes well after several hours in a neutral territory pen, then you need to remove the divider in the cage while they are still in the bonding pen, you then need to clean out the cage they are to live in together to make sure it is aso neutral and does not contain the scent of the piggy who previously lived in that half of the cage.
After those hours in the bonding pen and if all is still going well, you then move them back to the cage together and leave them together from then (no divider in the cage). Do not separate them again

You cannot put them together for a few hours and then separate, and then put them together again the next day. Doing this will interrupt everything every time and mean they don’t rebond as they need to constantly start from the beginning and not have it seen through to conclusion. This will cause them stress.

Make sure their cage is big enough - 180x60cm or a 2x5 c&c cage.

Once you have them back in their cage, you can start to reintroduce hides but make sure the hides all have two doors in them.

good luck

Bonding and Interaction: Illustrated social behaviours and bonding dynamics
Dominance Behaviours In Guinea Pigs
 
Thank you for that.
Super anxious but what will be will be
Originally there enclosure was 141 x 71cm but made it bigger after it was suggested here (see pic).
So I am gathering that I have to constantly watch them when I attempt putting them together for any agression
 

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jaqs said:
Thank you for that.
Super anxious but what will be will be
Originally there enclosure was 141 x 71cm but made it bigger after it was suggested here (see pic).
So I am gathering that I have to constantly watch them when I attempt putting them together for any agression
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Yes you will need to watch them but you should get a sense of whether it is heading in the right direction peer to quickly - ie if they are determined that they don’t want to be together it will become aggressive quite quickly
 
thank you very much
do i put the aggressor or the one that was attacked in first?
 
I haven't got any advice to add to the excellent ones you've already had, just wanted to say good luck and you sound like a very caring owner :)
 
so just as an update i decided not to put the boys back together they live side by side in there own enclosures
thank you for advice and help given, my anxiety just couldn't handle the stress of possible fights etc
 
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