Hi Denise, WOW! What a super group of buns. Just wondering why you are trying to bond so many. :lol: WISH I had that many - but think DH would leave me!
Do you find they break up into 2 or 3s within the large huddle? Or are they all intermingling?
We used to have all different couples etc & we decided to start trying to bond them all together :shock: I've been considering it for a while, but need to wait until Arthur & Jake had been neutered & calmed down - as Jake is a little sod!
We also needed to change the set up we had outside from hutches & pens that we had last year as we had a rat move in with the buns :shock: We obviously didn't want it living with the bunnies, but it didn't freak us out that much - however, our next door neighbour was different :roll: She was convinced it was us having bunnies that had attracted it :roll::evil: Anyway long story short, we had environmental health round who left us a bait box & said there was absolutely nothing wrong with our set ups or the number of bunnies we had - due to how clean etc we were keeping them
. It was more than likely our neighbour who was feeding the birds that had attracted the rat & the fact that other neighbours had compost heap :?
To stop all the agro we moved them all inside for the winter & have been planning to do this ever since - to be honest it is better for them than what did originally have & I feel happy that it is more secure & weatherproof for them.
At the moment they are tending to huddle in different groups - the original 8 that were a group, including Jake who was single then the couple Ruby & Harry are keeping together, but then keep trying to mingle with the others.
However, I think I may need to remove Arthur from the group - our little old fella seems to be being picked on by all the other males & he has now just scaled the side of the pen to escape :shock: They've all been pretty quiet during the night but I get the feeling that for some reason they will not accept Arthur no matter what
Oh well next plan is to try Arthur with Betsy when she's recovered & put Noah with them as a free ranging trio
Bless him it's not as if Arthur can really do anything to protect himself when they others start on him - as he's got no front teeth