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aggresive to other bunnies

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Question
Hi, I was housing my mini rex with my 3 new zealand white girls and my new zealand white X mini rex together... all are females, the 4 new zealand/new zeland cross girls are a little over seven weeks old now and the mini rex is about 4 1/2 months, anyways they all lived together happily for about six/seven days, cleaning each other, eating together, snuggling ect., but then all hell broke loose two nights ago my mini rex went nuts.... chasing the other rabbits around, biting them and banging into the cage... so I put the mini rex in a different cage, all bunnies ended up with a bite wound or two that has scabbed over.... why did she do this? they were all getting along so well..... what happened?

Answer
hello, your mini rex will be classed as an adult when it is 5 months old, your others are still babies-on no account should you put another rabbit in with the babies as it will dominate them and fight as you have found out-it would be okfor a few days and then it would show its domination by fighting,having taken it out dont try and put it back in as it will fight again-the babies will be ok
dave.