Long story short: my three-month-old sisters have been extremely aggressive since they were six weeks old. It does not seem to be dominance related; they don't mount or rumble or lift their heads or anything like that, it is literally just aggression. It is not about cage space, because they have an L-shaped 2x12 with two 2x2 hay lofts and one 1x2 hay loft. It is not about hideys, because they have heaps. It is not about hay or food or water, because they have plenty of it in various places throughout the cage. It is not environmental stress because they have their own air conditioner (it is summer here). One of them, all 460g of her, even tried to attack the 1.1kg neutered boar I introduced in an attempt to calm them down. They won't get along with anybody. And when I say they're fighting I mean biting, scratching, fur flying, blood and scabs.
They've had to be separated into partitioned parts of the cage, which is something I really wanted to avoid, but their safety is my main priority. My point in posting this is: is it puberty? Will they calm down? Please for the love of god someone tell me that it's puberty or something I can fix. I have tried everything - bathing, fleece swaps, neutral territory, grass time, lap time, through-the-bars living, neutered males, submissive 'buffer' females. I know that boars have a rough time through puberty, but I've never heard of it happening to females, particularly this badly.
Do I have any hope at all? :sad:
They've had to be separated into partitioned parts of the cage, which is something I really wanted to avoid, but their safety is my main priority. My point in posting this is: is it puberty? Will they calm down? Please for the love of god someone tell me that it's puberty or something I can fix. I have tried everything - bathing, fleece swaps, neutral territory, grass time, lap time, through-the-bars living, neutered males, submissive 'buffer' females. I know that boars have a rough time through puberty, but I've never heard of it happening to females, particularly this badly.
Do I have any hope at all? :sad: