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hils78
The saga of the swamp pigs goes on! These pigs are really testing my resolve for having a harmonious group of sows. I am after a some advice from anyone who has had experience with pigs who have had to fight for everything in their life. Now that the 2 rescue sows have had their litters & the boys are seperated out (randy little so&so's) I have for the last day or 2 been trying to bond the 2 mums & their 3 offspring. As it stands it seems that the sow who had her litter first (Pudding) is being a tad arsey to put it bluntley. She has been literally flying for the other mum MagPie & her baby Elizabeth. It looks like Wisp (one of Puddings babys) has learnt to be a bit of a bully too & at every opportunity flys for the little 2 week old.
I thought ok this isn't working after nearly a day of standing by the 6ft enclosure I have put them in with a water pistol. So I took out Pudding & Wisp thinking that they're ok together & leaving Willow MagPie & Elizabeth together. WRONG! MagPIe is flying for 4week old Willow. Any advice on what I should do. I really don't want Willow & Elizabeth to learn this behaviour. Do you think it will be a good idea to put the 2 young sows in with my non-traumatised group of 3sows & hope that they will be taught some proper manners? Do you think that they will grow out of this behaviour with time & patience? goes off to bang head against wall! Its got beyond the point of leaving them to it because they're too f~~~~d up to be trusted with 'leave them to it'!
I am assuming that they are like this becuase they always had to fight for everything where they came from-food, water, shelter, rest from male pigs etc
I thought ok this isn't working after nearly a day of standing by the 6ft enclosure I have put them in with a water pistol. So I took out Pudding & Wisp thinking that they're ok together & leaving Willow MagPie & Elizabeth together. WRONG! MagPIe is flying for 4week old Willow. Any advice on what I should do. I really don't want Willow & Elizabeth to learn this behaviour. Do you think it will be a good idea to put the 2 young sows in with my non-traumatised group of 3sows & hope that they will be taught some proper manners? Do you think that they will grow out of this behaviour with time & patience? goes off to bang head against wall! Its got beyond the point of leaving them to it because they're too f~~~~d up to be trusted with 'leave them to it'!
I am assuming that they are like this becuase they always had to fight for everything where they came from-food, water, shelter, rest from male pigs etc