To those with 5 piggies or more

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I have 6 piggies -
3 girls in a 5x2 C&C
2 boys in a 3x3 C&C
& my new piggy George in a 3x2 C&C - he's in quarantine at the mo then i am hoping to bond him with my boys & make them a new C&C.
 
I too have a 'free range' herd of 8 who live in a shed on the floor with additional levels 5x2ft above every 18" where the rescue/awaiting adoption pigs live. I also have a 6 year old sow who's an absolute cow when it comes to direct contact with the others yet behind the wire she's fine.

al.
rspca west suffolk
 
The reason I'm asking is that I currently have 4 sows in a 5x4 C&C but one of them seems to be unhappy and left out. The other 3 sleep and eat together and she sleeps alone and eats alone :( A friend of mine has some baby sows and said I can have one to put in seperately with my left out sow to bond those two together or alternatively I have a rescue boar coming soon (neutered) and am wondering if I should bond her with him rather than grouping him in with the rest of the girls?
Any advice is very welcome
 
I have a big c&c cage for my girls... and they can free range around the dining room, kitchen and hall.

They all seem to be doing their own thing and are not cuddling up much together. They all eat together as I think they realise that with so many it's eat and get on or else you get nothing but left overs.

One of my girls seems to be more isolated then the rest. She's the only one who constantly climbs underneath the fleece bedding. She lived alone for quite a few months before we got her and didn't have any social skills at all. While she now grasps the basic of guinea pig social etiquette (for example you can't just run straight through another pig), she still needs some quiet time on her own. When I first got her I bonded her with a baby pig and they lived apart from the rest of my sows (the plan was to foster them and find them a lovely new home but they stayed for good). The baby who is very social was however always desperate to get into the big cage and she's a much happier piggie now that she lives with the rest. And Fiona, the older pig, seems a lot happier too even though she appears at times isolated.

Sorry to go on for so long... What I'm trying to say is that your piggy might get on fine with the baby, but there are no guarantees that they will be close. Also it can take quite a while for piggies to settle in and you might find that she will eventually gets closer to the rest of your group. Or else she might just be a bit of a loner who while enjoying the company of the rest, also enjoys some quite alone time.

I think my preferred option would be to have all piggies living together provided they get on fine and none get bullied.
 
Thank you very much, I will keep her with the others as they are not fighting or anything so maybe she just prefers to be on her own. She might even take a shine to our rescue boar when he eventually joins them, who knows! ;)
 
Hoshishi said:
When's the big day? When will you get him?
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I wont get him for another 3 weeks or so yet as he is being treated for ringworm at the moment and is awaiting lab test results which should be in by end of the week. He then needs to be castrated and then they will let me know when I can pick him up. He will need to be quarantined for a few weeks before he can meet the girlies though so that he can heal from his op ;)
 
I know, I cant wait to bring him home. I havent even been able to give him a cuddle yet due to his treatment so cant wait to have some huggles with him drool
 
My cage for 10 is in this thread: http://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=31634

6 pigs in a 3x4
2 pigs in a 2x4
2 pigs in a 2x4

I am hoping to get the new pair of girlies integrated with one or other group, in which case there'll be either:

8 pigs in a 5x4
2 pigs in a 2x4

...or...

6 pigs in a 4x4
4 pigs in a 3x4

My group of six are all very happy and loving to each other, they are a close group, hence why I can get away with that many in a 3x4. I wouldn't extend that group without extending the cage, obviously. Plus, with floor time each day, they're not wanting for anything!
 
I absolutely love your setup CCC4. I have just bought some more grids, correx and vetbed and going to extend my current C&C to a 5ft x 5ft cage (I think its described as a 4x4 on here though as its 4 grids x 4 grids which confuses me as each grid is 14" so 2" over a foot with each one :{ :red)
Basically this setup will home my 4 sows and 1 boar when he moves in there but am wondering if its big enough for one more girl?
 
I have 16 there are 6 groups:
Champagne, Truffle, Mouse and Lukas live together in a three tier cage indoors
Learoy and Troy live outside in a hutch together
Lenny and George live outside in a hutch together
Ziggy and Eddie live outside in a hutch together
Sasha, Minnie and Magic live in the shed in their group
and Jeff, Fudge and Whiskey live in the shed together obviously seperate from the women lol

could never put them all together there would be too many fights and stuff like that, it is taken a bit of thought to get them in the groups they are in now and hoepfully all will be well till they pass on.
 
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