Anyone have any experiance at bonding three bunnies together?
I want to get my youngest female, Moxy, oldest female, Lucy and older male Robin to co-habit if at all possible. It would make exercising, feeding and cleaning them out a lot easier and I'd also be able to combine their seperate cages into one and give them much more room during the day. My plan would be to introduce my youngest, Coniglio, once he's 'safe' (he was neutered last week - have to wait to be sure he wont impregnate my Moxy, who is the last of the warren to be fixed).
Robin, being the randy-but-neutered male that he is, already gets on faously with both females. He's lived with Lucy most of his life and currently lives with Moxy. Moxy is the most laid back of all my rabbits - very docile and submissive, even to Robin, despite him being smaller than her. Lucy is quite highly strung (though I'm hoping being spayed will gradually help to calm her down). I plan to wait another couple of weeks for her hormones to settle and for her to fully heal up from the operation, and then introduce her to Moxy and re-introduce her to Robin.
Does anyone have any tips on how to do this successfully? I've bonded pairs of rabbits loads of times (we had to do it all the time in the rescue where I used to work) but I've never attempted to bond three rabbits together, let alone a potential foursome. Would it be better to introduce Lucy to Coniglio until he is no longer fertile and THEN try to introduce the two pairs to each other? Or should I introduce Lucy to Moxy and Robin first?