[Gpdd] Gpdd: (Misc) (Welcome to Bina and her Piggies)
Ellen Garrison
lola.garrison at gmail.com
Sun Oct 17 21:48:52 EDT 2010
Welcome Bina,
I hope you can find homes for the boars.
I was surprised when I brought home a sow piggie last year who had 4 babies,
2 boys and 2 girls. I decided to keep them all though. I did have to
separate the boys. The two brothers would fight. The boars are
all side-by-side, however. I also have the daddy and their first daughter,
plus another piggie. So I have 4 sows and 4 boars.
I clean their cages a couple times a week, washing the bases out with either
bleach or vinegar or dish soap. These are the rabbit-cage size cages, not
the small guinea pig cages. My two original piggies did live in small piggie
cages, but they also had a lot of floor time, and being that the boar was
neutered i could let them run around a lot and sometimes made their pen
bigger with a 'rodent fence' including their hay, food, and water bottles.
I also have a couple of larger rabbit cages that I use for the boars, and
put telephone books on one end so they can step up and reach their water
bottels. They like the larger area although they seem to like the
familiarity of a cage.
I know boars can live together but they need to be introduced. I do not know
why the brothers did not get along but may have had something to do with the
fact that they grew up in the same pen as the 4 sows. At three weeks they
were separated.
The sows live on a twin-size bed covered with a plastic cover, sheet,
towels, fleece, and more towels, pigloos, hutches, and have a rodent fence
that goes around the sides of the bed. I did have them on the floor before
but it's too drafty.
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