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Ok so i took everyones advice and i have decides to try and bond the guinea pigs all together, so i put them all in a pen together and they were ok, there was a good bit of chattering between whinney and daisy and lola just sat in the corner when whinney and daisy chattered to her she just kind of ignored them!
there was the odd chase and teeth showing but all in all it was good.
One thing i was concerend about was whinney pulled a bit of lolas hair out and then eat it, this is exactly what whinney was doing to daisy when i had to separate them, so i just want to no is this normal? is it a domanint thing?
I kept them together for abput 40 minutes , how long would you recommend to keep them together? i will be doing this every day :)
 
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I wouldn't keep seperating them as they will keep doing the dominance everytime, put them together in the mornign if they ok all day leave them together, my boss pig pulled hair out once it looked nasty but i've not seen her since some piggies do eat others hair they are called barber pigs
 
Once bonded they should not be separated as there is risk they will not go back togther.
 
oh ok i didnt no that, but I'm just afraid that they will fight when I'm away and one of them gets really hurt:(
 
It can look nasty, my latest piggy was the size of a hamster when i got her and peanut pulled her hair and picked on her so i sectioned off the cage so they could be near each other but not hurt her and i woke up in the morning and she had got through the grid and was chomping away with the other 4 pig's, her and another young one are now sorting out their place in the heirachy and there's lot's of hissing and headbutting i just keep an eye in them, if theres no blood leave them to it, they will be fine even tho it looks nasty and they squeal sometimes but if they draw blood seperate
 
Only you can decide if you think they will be ok together, mine still squabble but they never have full on fights just chattering and bum wiggling.
 
thanks for the helpful advise, i am going out on thursday to get some correx or coroplast to build a big c&c cage for them
thank you soooo much :)
 
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