Chances are that no matter when you introduce her to the ktichen, that you’ll have what looks like cocoa puff cereal lying around at least for a few days It will be new territory to her so chances are that she’ll want to poop a few times here and there. That being said, with her living in the areas directly by the kitchen, it may already smell enough like her that it may not matter. And if her poops are just “too lazy to go to the litter tray” poops and not territorial ones, you’ll end up with them anyway.

The other option is to wait until she’s spayed (that’s assuming you plan on doing so) because spaying reduces territorial pooping so she may not poop in there then. The other thing to mention is that not all bunnies are 100% with poops all the time anyway. You can get most to 95% but it’s only the rare bunny that will be 100% with poops all the time, which is only fair given the number that they produce.

Also keep in mind that she probably hasn’t had hormones kick in yet for her teenager phase, once they start to develop she may lose some of her litter habits (because hormonal intact rabbits are more inclined to mark territory) so she may at this point get worse before she gets better (not certain, some are fine).

Basically, to sum all that up. There’s so many variables that it’s impossible to know what she’ll do, but I’d say more likely than not she will end up pooping in the kitchen at some point. If you’re concerned about it, wait until after she starts to mature and you have her spayed. Much easier to train that way than to prevent an already occurring poop fest!

She is still really young, so if you do decide to open up the kitchen, I
would add a litter box perhaps. I did the opposite with Willow and started her in her pen and allowed access only to the kitchen.

when i let her have full range of our house she would poop by the rats cage in my bedroom and I added a litter box there. It solved it completely for us there. Then the bathroom she would go pee/poop on the rug in there so I added a box there as well. She stopped using the box in the kitchen. So now it’s just the box in her pen, the one by the rat cage in our bedroom and the one in the bathroom. She is almost 100%. Accidents are usually do to her doing crazy binkies through her litter boxes and therefore flinging some out.

Willow will be spayed in about a week and she is just turned 6 months. Knock on wood, the only hormonal displays have been some circling of me and the dog and some indignant digging at my foot and perhaps a nip if I dont start petting right away. I imagine after her spay we could have things get worse with the potty manners, but I suspect they will go back to normal in a few.

If you don’t mind them doing a bit of the picking of where the bathroom is, bunnies are pretty good about using it. Most seem to want to go in the same place/places.

Actually not entirely true. I let my baby bun roam the entire house after like 1-2 weeks when I feel that she knows the gist of litter box. Been very good since then and even better after spaying. I wouldn’t worry about expanding space a all.