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Will my boar fight will its boar babies

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Question
i have 2 cages, 1 for my sow, and 1 for [my boar] Marble. i let Miracle [my sow] mate with Marble, and then put them in different cages. a few weeks later Miracle had 6 babies. this is odd, but 3 boars, and 3 sows. i don't know if marble will either try to mate with the sows, or fight with the boars.  

Answer
Hi

It is very important that at 4 weeks of age you remove the mae babies from the mother miracle as if inbreeding occurs, many problems can occur.

Usually an adult male like marble will accept baby males as company but I can give you no guarantees as they may fight when the babies reach maturity.

Either way you must ensure that marble cannot mate with the baby girls and miracle cannot mate with the baby boys.

Andy