Creating A Trio - Which Gender?

[LeahsBunnies]

Little update, I think I have decided to go for it, just awaiting the reply of a lady I have messaged to view photos of the bunnies she is rehoming. Impatient doesn't cover it haha!!

 

[Gemmapookie]

I agree that girls are the bigger problem when bonding, I've recently tried to bond my widowed boy to my other male/female pair and my doe was having none of it :roll:

However, I think the MOST important factor is the personality of the bunny you adopt. Try as much as you can to get a placid, friendly bun whatever the gender. A highly strung one of either sex will be a nightmare :wave:

 

[LeahsBunnies]

I'm leaning more towards another boy now then haha, my two wouldn't be used to getting bossed around by a female!

 

[Mischief and Tinker's Mum]

I've always had more luck with my trios having 2 males and a female but I have had one successful trio with 2 girls!

This is the list of all my trios in order:

Mischief (boy) Tinkerbell (girl) Hector (boy)
Tinkerbell (girl) Hector (boy) Theo (boy)
Hector (boy) Theo (boy) Poppy (girl)
Primrose (girl) Reuben (boy) Velvet (girl)
Primrose (girl) Reuben (boy) Bertie (boy)

I have a few videos on how I bonded my last 2 trios if you're interested As you can see out of 5 trios I've had more luck with 2 boys and 1 girl. My hardest trio to bond was the one with 2 girls! They had some real fights! All was caught on camera and shown in my video.

 

[louise200]

My only experience is 2 males and 1 female. I felt their personalities were a good fit and an experienced lady did the bonding for me. So far so good :thumb:

 

[Casco]

I have a few videos on how I bonded my last 2 trios if you're interested As you can see out of 5 trios I've had more luck with 2 boys and 1 girl. My hardest trio to bond was the one with 2 girls! They had some real fights! All was caught on camera and shown in my video.

I would be interested in seeing the videos, I'll be starting bonding a trio in the next week or so and could use all the help I can get!

 

[joey&boo]

I would be interested in seeing the videos, I'll be starting bonding a trio in the next week or so and could use all the help I can get!

they are fab - they inspired me to go for it. You can see them through the youtube link below Mischief's signature

 

[Mischief and Tinker's Mum]

I would be interested in seeing the videos, I'll be starting bonding a trio in the next week or so and could use all the help I can get!

This is the video where I bonded my trio consisting of 2 females and 1 male:https://youtu.be/d7QOKF5lDXU You can skip to 2:38 to see the actual bonding footage, the start of the video is just me explaining my situation.

Then this is me bonding my current trio (2 boys, 1 girl):

Part 1 - https://youtu.be/Lnt_8rmCkRA
Part 2 - https://youtu.be/cDX67agld5o

I'm yet to upload part 3 but the bunnies are happily bonded and stayed bonded after I moved them outside.

 

[Mischief and Tinker's Mum]

they are fab - they inspired me to go for it. You can see them through the youtube link below Mischief's signature

Thank you!

 

[Casco]

Thanks for the links, interesting to watch - do you always put them together and leave them until they get along? I was planning on doing short sessions to start with, mainly because the only neutral space is my bathroom which is tiny or my bedroom which isn't that big either. I thought a few initial sessions, getting longer each time, would fit in better for me as I know I can't stay with them to monitor them for a whole day / several days as I will have school runs to do as well as work some days.

 

[daphnephoebe]

M&T I didn't realised the first trio bond was adding a male/female pair to your existing female. Much braver than me.
I'm jealous it only took you 4 days!

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[Mischief and Tinker's Mum]

Thanks for the links, interesting to watch - do you always put them together and leave them until they get along? I was planning on doing short sessions to start with, mainly because the only neutral space is my bathroom which is tiny or my bedroom which isn't that big either. I thought a few initial sessions, getting longer each time, would fit in better for me as I know I can't stay with them to monitor them for a whole day / several days as I will have school runs to do as well as work some days.

This can work however I prefer to leave the rabbits together once they've met as splitting them up repeatedly could cause confusion and keep breaking a potential bond that is forming. It may still work though! All bonds are different

 

[Mischief and Tinker's Mum]

M&T I didn't realised the first trio bond was adding a male/female pair to your existing female. Much braver than me.
I'm jealous it only took you 4 days!

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Haha thank you! Yeah after the loss of my male bun Hector poor Primrose was left as a singleton so I was looking for a friend for her. Honey Bunnies had a pair of rexes who they were really struggling to rehome and they'd been at the rescue for so long. So I thought why not, I'll take on 2 more! :lol: Sadly no longer have the female Velvet but I'm lucky enough to have little Bertie living with the other 2 now.

 

[daphnephoebe]

Haha thank you! Yeah after the loss of my male bun Hector poor Primrose was left as a singleton so I was looking for a friend for her. Honey Bunnies had a pair of rexes who they were really struggling to rehome and they'd been at the rescue for so long. So I thought why not, I'll take on 2 more! [emoji38] Sadly no longer have the female Velvet but I'm lucky enough to have little Bertie living with the other 2 now.

Yes I saw. Seems although Bertie lived alone he knew how to use his bits very well

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[steph-Hegarty]

Just watched all of those videos.
Have yet to bind mine as they are still recovering from neuturing but made me feel a bit better watching your videos so thank you

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