My past rabbits: Unspayed females mixed with neutered males..

[LaylaLop]

Just going to say, I am NOT advising people to keep unfixed rabbits together. Back then I did not have the means to get them spayed and no close vets in my area would do spays, only neuters due to a lack of expertise/risk with spays.. which is why the boys were fixed but not the girls.


I used to have 4 rabbits at the same time. They all lived in cages separately when I was not around, but whenever I was home I'd let all 4 of them run free in a spare bedroom with me usually doing homework in the middle of the floor. They were a male neutered holland lop, a neutered holland mix, an unspayed holland, and an unspayed mini lop. I know it was risky, buuut back then I didn't think about it much since they got along. They would all groom each other and never fought (except for my attention over treats) but it was usually just pushing one another out of the way for food. Anyways, here is a picture just for proof... Mac was the tort neutered holland lop, Thatcher was the broken blue(?) mixed neutered boy, Lexi was the broken black holland lop and Charlie was the broken orange/black (what I called my calico bunny) female.

These were my two unspayed females.. sometimes they'd flop down together after a hard day of binkies..

Anyway, just thought I'd share some pictures from the "vault" of pet pics.. I had them about 10 years ago back when I was in middle and highschool and now that I've graduated college I'm getting a holland lop doe in 2 weeks.. Sadly they all have passed on, but oh how I love bunnies..

 

[Korr_and_Sophie]

Before I got Amelia spayed, she did live with Korr (neutered male) for a couple months. I had been working on bonding them since I got her. It took a bit longer to get the money to get her spayed and they did get along, so I decided the get them bonded. There was some humping from both of them, but that was pretty much the worst of it.
Intact rabbits can get along, it just is a bit harder and could be more risky. You did not have them in the cages together, so that may have been part of why they got along outside the cage. Seems like you had/have the touch with rabbits to get them so they get along. Not everyone is that lucky.

 

[LaylaLop]

I helped foster rabbits for a local bunny rescue too and she had deemed Mac "unadoptable" since he'd do nothing but grunt and attack since she rescued him. I took him and in because I felt he deserved a chance at least and the few years I had him before he passed (since he was older) he opened up and even learned how to hop! He'd let me carry him around and even would fall asleep on me. She told me I'm the "bunny whisperer"... A rabbit breeder friend I knew too told me the same thing, that I had a calming effect on them.

 

[Nancy McClelland]

Great pictures.

 

[LaylaLop]

Thanks.. Here are just a couple more while I'm sharing..

 

[funnybunnymummy]

Hey, kudos to you for doing what you could and getting your boys fixed. At the very least, that prevented any unwanted pregnancies!

Rue

 

[LaylaLop]

My little girl I'm getting in a few weeks I'll have spayed when she's old enough since I'm close to a very good exotics vet. I figure it's not worth risking the ovarian cancer, or pissy attitude!