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Agression towards other rabbits

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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
I would say that either she has decided she doesn't like them, which isn't uncommon, or she is becoming hormonal and this is her way of showing it.

Either way, you are going to have to carefully reintroduce them in a neutral area to see if she is going to get along with them or not.

Make sure the bite wounds don't become infected, it has been known to happen and then they abscess.

Kim