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Post by jessielynn on Oct 31, 2013 17:45:05 GMT
I want to have a female piggy(rosie) spayed.I know it can be more risky then a male but it would be a good thing for her. She is healthy ( a little underweight from last litter but thats it) I have retired her but she won't live with females so I called the only vet around that does pocket pets. He flat out told me beyond it being super expensive he won't do a sow unless it's a health issue like pyometra. I can't have my boar done as he's my main breeding boar. I considered having a baby out of one of our other litters done when he's old enough but the chances of her accepting him are very slim in my eyes. Any advice? Is it really so risky that it shouldn't be done to make companionship possible? She's s lonely just hides under her hay and doesn't want to be touched. She hasn't popcorned since I weaned her babies. I don't know what else to do. I have her in a split cage with another sow we have just as a pet because she wasn't bred young so she was meant to be rosies cagemate. They hate eachother yet cuddle through the grids. UGHHH
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Post by Kayleigh on Oct 31, 2013 18:56:20 GMT
I personally wouldnt risk spaying a sow. I dont see why she wouldnt accept a neut boar, regardless of which boar it is.
Can she live next to the others? Is she not willing to bond to your other sows? If shes the aggressor maybe shes best left as a singleton but near others.
What about rehoming a neut boar or adopting one and getting him neutered?
I would search all other options first.
Kayleigh
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Post by jessielynn on Oct 31, 2013 19:17:59 GMT
She only likes her male. even when I put her with a week old baby she attacks like crazy. The only guinea pig she's ever been able to be with is our boar. She lives next to the other one and is fine through the wire but very depressed regardless. When I put her with the boar for a while supervised so she isn't bred she's so happy. She's the one I was having issues bonding with the year and a half old sow. They were doing okay but she started attacking to the point of a torn eat overnight. I had to take her out. I looked at neutered boars in my area but haven't been able to find anything. I've been searching but was hoping the vet was being overly dramatic about the risks.
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Post by jessielynn on Oct 31, 2013 20:05:13 GMT
I'lll link to a video of them going at it once it downloads to my pc from my phone.
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Post by Kayleigh on Oct 31, 2013 20:07:16 GMT
Spaying is an invasive procedure for any animal. Especially cavies.
It sounds as if she has decided she is infact happy alone but next to others.
If yojr worried about her hiding, remove the hideys. It encourages them to hide.
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Post by jessielynn on Oct 31, 2013 20:09:17 GMT
It's not even the hiding. She makes no noise. doesn't wheek for her veggies. lays in the corner doesn't come over for attention. And doesn't pop corn or do anything.
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Post by jessielynn on Nov 1, 2013 12:00:40 GMT
The girls have been together all night now. They're still not impressed with eachother but I think with time they'll get used to it. Rosie keeps chasing little miss around but she's not attacking most of the time. and when she does it's nowhere near what it was before.
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Post by Kayleigh on Nov 1, 2013 13:30:56 GMT
Sows will be sows ... and you need to let them settle ... it can take time. But aslong as theres no full on fighting then leave them be to sort it out.
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Post by jessielynn on Nov 1, 2013 13:39:40 GMT
just nipping now I scattered pellets in the part of the cage without shavings as they were fighting over the bowl. When can I put toys and houses back in? thank you. I was scared to let them work it out.
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Post by Kayleigh on Nov 1, 2013 14:32:24 GMT
Toys can go in whenever but personally i find hideys are a big reason for fights/territorial behaviour.
Fingers crossed they stay friends .... or at least accept one another!
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Post by Danielle on Nov 2, 2013 5:37:40 GMT
All my info is from books so far, but it sounds really risky to me....1 in 10 don't make it.
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Post by jessielynn on Nov 2, 2013 18:51:21 GMT
they're touching eachother so I think everything will be fine. Now we don't have to look at having anyone spayed or neutered
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