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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2015 12:26:25 GMT -5
They usually get along quite fine until its feeding time. Sherlock hisses and runs away from Castiel with his mouth full of food and sits in a corner all puffed up and angry. While Castiel just eats away in the bowl. However, they do get into these violent fights for a short period of time at least twice a day. In the video I try not to get involved and when they are done I do a check that there are no wounds or blood. Mostly for my own documentary purposes. But I did get quite scared the first time I saw it, is it normal? They have only been living together for 3 days, will they get along perfectly soon or will this be going on a daily basis?? I'm worried when they wiggle like sharks trying to tear their prey apart I start commenting stuff in Spanish in the video, and quality is not the best sorry xDD www.facebook.com/angie.closetcreep/videos/vb.1851277090/10203576485893347/?type=3&theater
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2015 16:25:22 GMT -5
It looks like they are just playing, my hobs are playing like that everyday. If they were fighting for real there would be a lot more squeaking, pooping and blood. Are they both fixed? How are their age difference? Are they only in the cage?
You wrote in another thread about the stink from Castiel, I always find that when ferrets have moved the smell a lot more after a while and then it goes on for a couple of weeks. I'm not sure if it's the stress of moving to a new environment, but it does wear of after some time. And also, all kits smell more than adult ferrets. Especially when they go into their first heat. UGH, that is awful =D I lurked some more but i'm not sure with what you meant with "intact", if it was they are not castrated or if they both have scent glands still.
If both are not castrated and the older one is 5 months it's soon time for him to get into heat and if there is another not castrated male there could be real fights, and I mean fights to the death. I had two males I tried to introduce when one of them was in heat and the other on was on his way into heat (I did not know that one of them was going in to heat, if I knew that I never would have tried) I let them fight for like... 2 minutes, and in that short time they got blood flying all over the room and bit each other pretty bad. It was awful =(
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Post by crazylady on Aug 26, 2015 17:39:52 GMT -5
Hi if they are both intact they will fight to prove who is the most dominant there could be some bites some whole males if introduced early enough ( like babies ) will accept each other I have a few groups of brothers who live together but come breeding season they will practice who is female today if you get my meaning and that can result in bitten necks if they are more aggressive at food time feed them separate ( often a more dominant male will also claim the food bowl resulting in the other ferret getting less to eat ) screaming and hissing from a younger ferret around feeding time is also normal its his way of saying get away this is mine and I will fight for it I need this to survive hope this helps take care bye for now Bev
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Post by nancyl on Aug 26, 2015 18:35:58 GMT -5
I wouldn't even attempt to keep two unrelated hobs together particularly if they're intact. It's just asking for trouble and it looks like one of these guys is considerably younger/smaller and could well be injured for real. I'd split them up.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2015 11:00:59 GMT -5
Well, I would like to keep them both, they get along fine the rest of the time. I guess that Sherlock was bullied by other ferrets, hence his distressed behaviour with food. I feed them seperately now.
I wanted to keep them intact until they were 1 year old so that when it comes to castrating them, they will be at less risk of future problems? What should I do then?? :C
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2015 12:24:00 GMT -5
Did you want to castrate them surgically or with a deslorin/suprelorin-chip?
You can not have two uncastrated males together if they are getting into heat anyway, you have to separate them. They can probably stay together as long as they are not fighting too much, but when the balls are beginning to appear and the hormones are starting to rage they need separate cages. It depends on the environment when they are going in to heat, some can wait a bit, until spring and some are going in to it early.
One of my boys were only 4,5 month old when he started going into heat, he was such a pesky teenager, dragged his pee everywhere, (I called him the snail) was aggressive, bitey and smelled awful. He's such a sweetheart now <3
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2015 11:39:08 GMT -5
Yes, I was aware that you can't have two intact hobs together I was going to castrate them surgically when they were about to get in heat.
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