Wounded boar

[mackenziejanetaylor]

Hi, would appreciate anyone’s advice on this:

I paired my 3 year old (Charles) with a baby at 6 weeks (Winston) who is now over 8 months old and they have had a huge fight ending in a wounded Winston.

Charles also wounded another boar (Teddy) really badly before Winston which required in him being rehomed with Winston, and I took on another piggie for Teddy who get along just fine.

What’s the best option with boars who can’t get along with any other boars? I’m afraid he might be too old to get neutered and paired a with a female? He also has health problems which might mean more risk for the operation.

I have six piggies at the moment and can’t really afford taking anymore on and wouldn’t have the space for it either.

Attached is a photo of what Charles has done to Winston. Wound has been cleaned with saline, he is behaving normally (eating, wheeking, running around etc) but I am monitoring him extremely closely incase a vet trip is needed later today.

Would appreciate anyone’s advice/opinion.

 

[Piggies&buns]

I’m sorry to hear this

While age alone does not necessarily prevent neutering (3 years old isn’t too old for neutering), his health issues are more likely to prevent an anaesthetic being safe. The other consideration is that if you have bonded boar pairs in the room, you wouldn’t want to bring in a sow to bond with him anyway. The presence of a sow has the potential to cause other boar pairs to fight and fall out.
(there are ways it’s possible to do it but the advice is to never introduce a sow into the room where bonded boar pairs live)

His option if he is not compatible with other piggies is for him to live as a single piggy in his own space but with his cage being side by side with another piggy/pair of piggies. This enables interaction between the bars and prevents loneliness while meaning he gets his own territory.

I have four boys - a bonded 6 year old pair, and two 15 month olds. The youngsters were a bonded pair until they turned 18 weeks, they had a huge fight and have lived side by side ever since. They interact with each other between the bars and then when my older pair come down to ground level for playtime, they also interact between the bars with them.

 

[Bill & Ted]

So sorry this has happened, side by side living is your best plan unless you have a totally separate space where a boar and sow can live apart from you boar pairs

 

[furryfriends (TEAS)]

I get all boars neutered before rehoming, here at TEAS and have had piggies as old as 5 neutered, without any problems.

 

[furryfriends (TEAS)]

I’ve got a mixture of boars and sows in my log cabin and this doesn’t cause problems with the boar/boar pairings.

 

[YvonneBlue]

I would get that wound checked out by a vet before the Christmas break. The last thing you need is having to go the emergency vets over the Christmas holidays.