William
Wise Old Thumper
Do you have any problems with referred aggression? Are you able to free range one pair of bunnies in, for example, the living room, and then put them in another room and allow another pair to free range in the living room?
I'm wondering because I have 3 single neutered boys and I want to get a few baby girls. It's something I've planned for a long time but never went through with it because I'm a bit paranoid about making sure I have enough money for emergency vet bills, but hopefully in a couple of months or so I'll finally get more buns! The plan is to keep the girls together until they're old enough to be spayed (I've had a good deal of success with keeping unspayed girls together so not too worried about that, although I know fighting is definitely possible) and then I'll bond them with my single boys to make a group.
The boys know each other as they're housed next to each other and they all go up to each other's cages when they're free ranging so I'm hoping that helps a bit with bonding them. But I know there's a good chance that it won't work out perfectly and I might have, say, a quad and a pair. Or it might work out perfectly but I might get more buns in the future that might cause aggression problems.
Right now my buns free range most of the house but their 'base' area is the hallway. I alternate them so 1 bun will be free ranging and the other 2 are in either my bedroom or in their C&C cage. I'm wondering how this will work if I have 2 different groups of bonded bunnies though. Like if it's likely that a group of buns might fight with each other because they either see or smell another bunny in 'their' territory. How often does this actually happen?
I'm wondering because I have 3 single neutered boys and I want to get a few baby girls. It's something I've planned for a long time but never went through with it because I'm a bit paranoid about making sure I have enough money for emergency vet bills, but hopefully in a couple of months or so I'll finally get more buns! The plan is to keep the girls together until they're old enough to be spayed (I've had a good deal of success with keeping unspayed girls together so not too worried about that, although I know fighting is definitely possible) and then I'll bond them with my single boys to make a group.
The boys know each other as they're housed next to each other and they all go up to each other's cages when they're free ranging so I'm hoping that helps a bit with bonding them. But I know there's a good chance that it won't work out perfectly and I might have, say, a quad and a pair. Or it might work out perfectly but I might get more buns in the future that might cause aggression problems.
Right now my buns free range most of the house but their 'base' area is the hallway. I alternate them so 1 bun will be free ranging and the other 2 are in either my bedroom or in their C&C cage. I'm wondering how this will work if I have 2 different groups of bonded bunnies though. Like if it's likely that a group of buns might fight with each other because they either see or smell another bunny in 'their' territory. How often does this actually happen?