HELP buns got into it

[Angela98]

My two female buns got into it earlier while trying to bond. The older one (Salem) is free roamed and the younger one (maple) is 6 weeks old and we have her in a big cage until she is of age to get spayed. They have been fine sniffing each other out through the cage bars and a little bit ago Salem and her got into it and now maple has a cut by her eye. She is hoping and eating fine. Very happy but I’m scared cause I see a little blood and her bottom eye lid lining thing is hanging a little. I know buns don’t show if something is wrong but I know that she is fine cause she is acting her normal self and is playing and chewing. Is there anything I can use to clean her cut since it’s near her eye?

 

[Blue eyes]

Can you post a photo of the injury?

Did this happen through the cage bars or were they out together?

 

[Angela98]

Through the cage bars

 

[Donna Standar]

Through the cage bars

Awwwww poor sweety..she's adorable. Maybe call your vet and ask if he thinks it's ok or not to leave it a day or so , so you can see if it improves first. Did you check close to see if her pupil is scratched as well?

 

[Blue eyes]

I'm not sure what to make of the eye injury. I'll leave others to address that. But I'd suggest you put a secondary barricade between the 2 rabbits so they can't get to each other. That would mean either an ex pen that can be set up a few inches away from the little one's cage wall OR getting a mesh of sorts to prevent direct contact. Otherwise it may happen again and could be worse.

I used a mesh on an ex-pen once when bonding rabbits. You can see the mesh on the bottom portion of the ex-pen:

 

[Angela98]

Awwwww poor sweety..she's adorable. Maybe call your vet and ask if he thinks it's ok or not to leave it a day or so , so you can see if it improves first. Did you check close to see if her pupil is scratched as well?

yes my moms a human nurse so she helped me look at her eye and said it isn’t deep and she should be fine. We whipped the blood with a q tip and are gonna watch her close. Vet is closed so can not call at this time. She’s enjoying some hay right now I just feel so bad he little eye is like this

 

[Angela98]

I'm not sure what to make of the eye injury. I'll leave others to address that. But I'd suggest you put a secondary barricade between the 2 rabbits so they can't get to each other. That would mean either an ex pen that can be set up a few inches away from the little one's cage wall OR getting a mesh of sorts to prevent direct contact. Otherwise it may happen again and could be worse.

I used a mesh on an ex-pen once when bonding rabbits. You can see the mesh on the bottom portion of the ex-pen:
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I will definitely do that right now. I have a ex pen.

 

[Donna Standar]

yes my moms a human nurse so she helped me look at her eye and said it isn’t deep and she should be fine. We whipped the blood with a q tip and are gonna watch her close. Vet is closed so can not call at this time. She’s enjoying some hay right now I just feel so bad he little eye is like this

Oh good to hear it's ok, nothing serious...