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Traumatized/Worried Rabbit

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Question
Yesterday, I put my healthy doe mini lop to my healthy younger buck mini lop. They hit it off great, everything went smoothly. I have another healthy doe rabbit who roams the garden whilst the others are outside in cages. When the roaming doe passed the pair in the outside cage, the mini lop doe went started attacking the buck for some reason. She managed to catch his nose and it bled (its fine now), but last night and today I've noticed she's not herself. We took her away from the buck and placed her in her cage, but she grunts and panics when I open the cage and she sits in her nestbox in the dark all day. She IS eating and drinking a little, but her right eye seems to follow something and then snap back.

Could this be trauma or what could this be? Is there anyway I can help her at home as she doesn't fair well at vets, and i don't want to induce any more stress.

Thanks

Answer
hi holly just give her a couple of days to calm down and if she is no better have a vet check her out-sometimes once mating has taken place the doe attacks the buck this is quite common but i always remove the buck immediately after mating.
dont think its anything to do with the other doe.
dave.