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BINKYBUNNY FORUMS

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- 12/23/2018 at 6:55 PM
  Bunnymummy23
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  I have three bunnies two girls and one boy one of the girls and the boy are litter mates and one of the girls we got today we introduced them and they spent a couple hours cuddling together when i put them all in the bunny room and when I checked on them they were chasing eachother around tossing eachother and the floor was covered in tufts of fur all over the floor. And even the siblings who never fight were going at eachother what should i do is that even fighting there was no blood but they had just started
- 12/23/2018 at 8:11 PM
  jerseygirl
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  Hi Bunnymummy23
  
  You will need to separate the rabbits, even the 2 that were together if they are also fighting with each other. Do check each one over thoroughly for wounds.
  
  It sounds as if you will need to start a slower approach to bond them before they can share the room.
  If you have not done so already, check out the bonding info under the BUNNY INFO tab at the top of the page.
  
  Can you tell us more about each rabbit. What age are they? Are they desexed at all?
- 12/24/2018 at 11:17 AM
  tobyluv
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  If your bunnies have reached the age of puberty, which can start around 3 months of age, they do have to be separated. If they have not been spayed and neutered and gone through a proper bonding routine, it doesn’t matter if they are litter mates, they will fight and they can severely injure each other. They can also start reproducing at that early age, and you can wind up with one or more litters.
  
  It sounds like you got one of the females today. First, you need to let a rabbit settle in for a week or more before you can even think of starting bonding sessions, and if she isn’t spayed, you can’t introduce her to any other rabbits anyway. They all have to have their surgeries, then you need to wait around a month for their hormones to die down, before starting bonding. You can do some pre-bonding first, by swapping blankets, toys, anything with their scent on it, but that should be done after they are spayed and neutered too so that they don’t have a hormonal smell.
  
  Besides the bonding info that jerseygirl mentioned, here is another good article on bonding:
  https://rabbit.org/faq-bonding-multiple-rabbits/
  
  Bonding can sometimes be quick and easy, but it can also be difficult and take several weeks to accomplish. It will be even harder to bond a trio, so that may take longer. Sometimes, certain rabbits just can’t get along and they have to be kept separately forever.
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