female mounting male?

[Sabine]

I brought a new bunny home today (pictures be posted in the rabbitry shortly) He is a nine week old male lionhead.
I briefly put Lint, who is a girl, in with him to say hello, but after a short moment she started chasing him and kept mounting him. We separated them and double checked the sexes and tried again. Same thing happened. Is that usual? Is that a sort of dominance behaviour because it was a newcomer?

 

[tonyshuman]

yup. females often mount for dominance. Tony used to be in charge, doing all the mounting and getting all the grooming, but now Muffin will hump him (usually on the face) if she doesn't get her way. :laugh:

 

[Sabine]

The tables have turned today: Benny, our new bun, being much less nervous wasn't having any of it today and after a while he started trying to mount Lint's face and then went for her rear. Needless to say he was swiftly whisked out of the run and will be kept away until he can be neutered. Poor Benny! He is my first male.I didn't expect him to be so frisky at the tender age of nine weeks

 

[Ofelia]

Your little Benny should be sexually mature at around 12 to 13 weeks I believe but of course its always good to keep them separated until he is neutered, some contact through a cage might be good though so that bonding can go a bit smoother when he has recovered from his neuter. At least they will recognise eah other.

The whole mounting thing is definitely something most bonded pairs do, out of boredom, dominance issues (who's the boss of the day), just because they want to (could be fun ...lol) and my lot do lots of mounting.

Angel mounts Bugsy.
Busgy has a go in poor old Angels face, Timmy loves mounting poor little Rupert who is one third her size.
He just sits there as if to say, top up my food bowl please or isn't it a lovely day.
Jazz will rarely mount Slipper but until Slipper calmed down from his neuter he would mount ANYTHING.
Jazz and Slipper and Iggy do not tend to do much of that kind of behaviour, they just groom each other a lot.

I must admit, its kind of uncool when there are visitors around or my kids are playing with the bunnies and then suddenly theres a big flurry of activity which can be a bit embarrasing ....lol

Its all just a normal part of bunny behaviour, I think of it as this, bunners are for the most part fairly mute little creatures so they have to get their point across somehow ....:biggrin2:

 

[tonyshuman]

I know what you mean, Ofelia. I came home after my landlady was showing my old apartment to a prospective new tenant and my bunnies were having a hump-fest!! I hope they didn't do that when the landlady etc was there!:shock:

 

[Maureen Las]

Ofelia wrote:

Your little Benny should be sexually mature at around 12 to 13 weeks I believe but of course its always good to keep them separated until he is neutered, some contact through a cage might be good though so that bonding can go a bit smoother when he has recovered from his neuter. At least they will recognise eah other.

The whole mounting thing is definitely something most bonded pairs do, out of boredom, dominance issues (who's the boss of the day), just because they want to (could be fun ...lol) and my lot do lots of mounting.

Angel mounts Bugsy.
Busgy has a go in poor old Angels face, Timmy loves mounting poor little Rupert who is one third her size.
He just sits there as if to say, top up my food bowl please or isn't it a lovely day.
Jazz will rarely mount Slipper but until Slipper calmed down from his neuter he would mount ANYTHING.
Jazz and Slipper and Iggy do not tend to do much of that kind of behaviour, they just groom each other a lot.

I must admit, its kind of uncool when there are visitors around or my kids are playing with the bunnies and then suddenly theres a big flurry of activity which can be a bit embarrasing ....lol

Its all just a normal part of bunny behaviour, I think of it as this, bunners are for the most part fairly mute little creatures so they have to get their point across somehow ....:biggrin2:

Very well said...:roflmao:very true and very funny

 

[Sabine]

I have been lucky so far, my 3 girls (4 and 9 months have never mounted each other or anything) Looks like with Benny around things will change a bit:biggrin2:

 

[Leaf]

Oh dear, LOL!

Hopefully things will settle down soon for all three!

 

[Leaf]

We need pictures in this thread too!

 

[Sabine]

This is Benny, the day we brought him home

This is Lint when she was little (she still is tiny)