Introducing a new bunny in a group so large is pretty much drop them in and watch. It can sometimes take a little time for a bunny to adjust, but as long as there is no fighting and thing go smoothly, then they stay. If there is a ruckus and unhappy bunnies, then that bunny is removed. The bunnies will usually pick out a few friends they like to hang out with the most, if there are two that are inseparable, or came in together, they get adopted together. Most of these bunnies go to a home that already has a bunny, and that homes bunny picks out a new friend on a bunny date.
There is one bunny I know of who does not go well in a 1 bunny only home, and has actually been returned as she likes living in the colony, she’s a real bag LOL, and i love her.

How do you keep track of all of them?! – I’m in the middle of still putting together the identification book we’ll be keeping at the shelter. Right now we go by Memory and what pen they are in.

I used to volunteer for a rescue that kept their rabbits this way but it was outside… – Our new facility is oen of those big sorta tarp buildings (quonset), we have heat lamps in there for the winter and fans for the summer. They are also insulating it and such. The building is fenced on the inside as well as the outter property, the guage is very small as we don’t want anything bigger then a mouse getting in.

what type of bedding do you use? and what do they like to listen on the boombox? With the awful territorial pooping in have in the bunny room, this looks so clean, do most of them use the boxes? Can I move in with you? – LOL… Bedding is a kiln dried pine, inside the litter boxes are pine pellets and fresh hay daily. The bunnies are not to picky on the kind of music, as long as it’s not to loud. I wish I could say they all use the litter boxes, but not all. We like to keep them to encourgae their uses, so the litter trained ones don’t forget. They also like sleeping and snuggling in them. You can move in with me, but I only have 8 LOL… but I could use a hand with brushing mine

Guess i better clean the spare room up a bit LOL…
“Hi Hunny, I’m just having some internet rabbit loving friends and there bunnies stay for a while, that’s ok right?” :p

Minimal mounting, mostly new bunnies who are a bit dominant do that when they enter the group. There are little fusses happening once and a while, worst ‘bites’ we get are nose bites, but we’re never had any serious injuries. We’re find most of the rabbits who cannot live in this sorta situation are ones who are very affraid, they ‘freak out’ in the pen upsetting others, and some become ‘trolls’ hinding and protecting one area, i can think of a couple that have been removed for that reason. But other then that, it’s pretty much lounging bunnies just hanging out. When the new bedding goes in thats when you see a lot of binkies lol.

Bigger the Groups the better, seems 14+ is a good amount to start out with, they are a little out of their element with so many at first, so there is less agruments among the bunnies :p
It is a bit more space, but less kennels/cages, less cleaning (at least indavidually), less food/water dishes (just larger ones), and it gives more space for the bunnies. I don’t know however if the bunnies adopted from a free run situation go back to having excellent litter habbits or not. hhmm… i’m going to ask one of the girls who adopted the grumpiest little female dwarf from us recently, Sophia. She was a favorite bunny of mine, we called her the troll.

Ok, so today I took a bit of video, and a couple pic’s when i went to the shelter, dunno how good they turned out LOL (now how to attatch a video?? lol)

Sorry if it’s kinda loud, there were some kids here wth their Mom, plaing with the bunnies and cleaning up.

Pen One, these guys are all pretty old, they are our ‘originals’.

Stomp your foot and u get everyones attention LOL, This is pen two.

And this is my favorite boy, his name is Buddy, but I call him the football LOL  (dwarf/dutch guy)

No, he was an SPCA bunny adopted by a lady who gave him up and I took him.
I contacted an Adopter who adopted a bunny from our shelter and her little box habits are totally fine in teh new home (she lives ina group of 5 i think bunnies). I was curious to see if they would still have little box habits after being in this free run, and it seems they do
All the shelter bunnies I have had to take home for treatment have always used the litter box as well. I really didn’t think they would, so that surprised me.