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pigs fighting

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Question
I got two pigs one a punk, brown black with sticky out hair, can not recall the breed but I need to look it up, the other smoothed haired and almost chinchilla looking unusual markings, but lestat (: yep,  and Louie Louie seems to have come out of his shell handle him no problem and same goes for lestat, but I am worried about lestat  Louie seems to bully him and chase him away from the food, they was brought up from babies but just watching them in the cage just guts me Louie is a bully, what can I do to stop this, lestat from what we can make out maybe 3 weeks younger doesn't make much pig noises but does when I put him back in the pen, and is it normal for Louie to be trying to mount lestat, my kids think I have a gay pig (: no serious worried about lestat just seems Louie is the domineering one, worried about lestat just seems to hide and be still until Louie starts on him and yep (: for all you vampire fans lestat was the dominant one (: but not with my pigs its Louie who is the bully (: please help me, love them both but feel sorry for lestat he is scared of Louie, i got them both together different bread but raised from birth,

Answer
Hi Amanda

If your two males have been together since birth, they should normally get on ok. If you think though that one is scared by the other, it may be an idea to separate them. The mounting of the other pig will gradually phase out.

However, it is perfectly normal for one pig to dominate the other. Don't worry about the lack of noise. They should be ok together unless you can ever detect that actual bodily damage is being done.

andy