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No no no! Never put 6 males together, let alone aggressive ones. It might be inconvenient but you need to separate your boys into three pairs. Each pair will need at least a 2x5 cage. Aggressive boys may need more space for each of the three cages. If you don’t have the space or resources for this you may have to make a heart wrenching choice to rehome the pairs you cannot keep. It’s going to be a tough choice, but it is required for the safety of each of the six boys to set things up as I mentioned.Just put together this 6x4 C&C cage. Is it big enough for six VERY BRATTY boys? These guys will fight for any reason you can think of. I can make it bigger if need be. Just wanted to run it by you all. Thanks!
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No no no! Never put 6 males together, let alone aggressive ones. It might be inconvenient but you need to separate your boys into three pairs. Each pair will need at least a 2x5 cage. Aggressive boys may need more space for each of the three cages. If you don’t have the space or resources for this you may have to make a heart wrenching choice to rehome the pairs you cannot keep. It’s going to be a tough choice, but it is required for the safety of each of the six boys to set things up as I mentioned.
I always set up a “floor time” set up in another room. Lay down lots of fleece liners to clean up all the pee and such with foldable play pen grids i found on amazon. When they’re all good to go, they go into the clean cage with all the scents washed away. The fighting always starts when they hit puberty (I’ve got almost all of them when they were between 3-4 weeks old)@hkwalker1, how did you introduce them before putting them in the cage?
I'd take those hideys out of the cage -- they're just invitations to squabble. You need smaller, open-ended hideys so nobody can get trapped.
You also need to break up the sight lines in the cage so that other pigs are not always visible. You can string fleece forests across it or clip fleece across the corners. Just give them places where they can chill without triggering a dominance response from the other pigs.