RE: Bonding a male/female under 12 weeks old

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RE: Bonding a male/female under 12 weeks old

02/02/2019 at 7:17 PM

Doodler

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I am not sure why some people say that it’s easy for babies to bond. Although it is true that they will normally get along they cannot bond at that age. The other big issue with this is soon they will be fertile and you definitely don’t want your babies to have babies.

If you get both of them you would have to keep them separate until they are both altered, healed and hormones settled. You would then be looking at prebonding and then bonding. This means you have a long road ahead of you with two separate bunnies. Even if you were to get same sex bunnies if you look back on this website in the bonding section you will see multiple inquiries from people coming here for help because their baby bunnies that used to cuddle each other are now being aggressive and fighting. This is what happens when hormones become involved as the get older.

Yes you would be able to keep them in cages next to each other but you would want to make sure they are far enough apart that they can’t nip each other or try and breed through the bars.