advice needed please

[pikey boy 25]

had 3 ferrets about 18 months now dont work to bad 2 hobs borthers plus 1 gill all castrated or spayed all get on well come out to meet me when i go to hutch got 2 more hobs last week both castrated all got on well when first put together but after aday or so the polecat hob one of the now hobs starting to have a go at my first 3 more so the gill they dont seem to come out so much now will carm down or will i need to make a new hutch for the 2 new hobs hutch at the moment is 10 ft long by 2ft hi 2/6inswide with the same again above

[Bunny Boiler 177]

Are they fighting or just dragging each other about? If there is a ferret with broken skin, I suggest you assess how bad. If it looks like it's being bullied, remove the bully, if it's just over the top messing around, then leave them. They're pack animals remember. They have a pecking order. One dominant jill who will be the very motherly one when there are kits around, and the top hob, who rules the group. They may just be sorting the order. If they all sleep together, its more likely to be pecking order. If one is socially rejected, then they've decided the order and he is the runt.

 

Hope this helps,

 

Bunny.

[pikey boy 25]

the 2 new hobs are about 2 yrs old and the others are about 4 there no broken skin,the 4yr olds not to keen to be out when the polecats out,when there out in the day pen out on the grass ther not to bad but when in sleeping box or cat beds he starts on them

[joe14 98]

I assume their still sorting out who is the boss. They should settle down but if there is blood then split them into two groups. Dont put him on his own.

[pikey boy 25]

no blood would'nt put him on is own cos he came with an albino hob and they get on ok but would like to keep all 5 together if poss, all been together a week today so will give them more time thanks for the advice

[joe14 98]

It sounds like he wants his own bed, try puttin few more places to sleep in the hutch. That way if they he can sleep on his own if he wants.

How long has the hob been castrated?

When I put ferrets together I cover all their necks in oilve oil, they lick each other instead of bite then lol.

[pikey boy 25]

he sleep in the sleeping box with the hob that came with him the other moved out and sleep in other parts of the hutch with each other,he looks around for the others and gets in with them then a fight givethe oil a go thanks