Dysfunctional pig relationship and adding to the herd

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I have two gorgeous sows (1 yr 4 months) who have lived with each other for over a year.

They mostly tolerate each other's presence, but often bicker over personal space, bedrooms etc. Occasionally their arguments are worse and involve hair pulling and angry pouncing.

I've separated them in the past, but the daft buggers just pine for each other - even when they can communicate through the bars. Pathetic crying, heavy sighs, and attempts to climb into each other's part of the enclosure!

I'm very keen to add more piggies to my little herd, and I do have room to have separate living quarters for different personalities.

Might a neutered boar help with cage dynamics? Or perhaps more sows and separate according to who gets on with whom?

I've done a load of Herd Adding and it worked until I tried to add 2 adult sows ( 2yo established pair) to my herd of Nutered boar+ his 2 wives .
Neutered boar was the second husband , they seemed to go a bit reclusive when first one died . The boar got on really well and they thrived.

But ..the new girls did not gel with the group (to put it mildly) .

We kept a 3+2 setting.
When the two original girls died we tried to bond him with the newest sows ....again they had none of it.

I now have boar+ the less angsty sow and we're going to try and bond the pair of them.

In your situation I'd say go for two neutered boars (Rescues tend to neuter the males now to make rehoming easier)
You can have 2 married couples

Ooh, now that sounds like a good idea!

I can be a kind of guinea pig Mrs Bennett!

"I can be a kind of guinea pig Mrs Bennett"

Then you need someone Santa to buy you the guinea pig Pride and Prejudice book (as piggies as all the characters)

And "The Guinea-Pig Nativity" .......Herod is played by a gorgeous grey Rex.

Apparently there is also guinea pig Oliver and guinea pig Romeo and Juliet

@EastMidsGPs I have two of those books already