According to the internet, you’re not supposed to let your bunnies meet each other until a month after their desexing operation. The reasoning behind that is because the bunnies hormones are still in their system and they will still show mating interests. But, my bunnies have been near each other for as long as I have had the Little Ones, that’s since October – 3 months. That’s most of the Little One’s life. All they know is Buttons, and Buttons missed them when they were away.
I have purposefully placed their fences close enough to each other that they can’t hurt each other, but their noses can touch.
Maple was in the green pen, Buttons is in the pen with the thicker panels, and Lunar is in the black pen on the top left. Each pen would be about 5cm away from each other.
I don’t see any harm in the three of them being separated by about 5cm during the day. The more time they spend with each other, the easier it will be to bond them. The three of them always eat together.
I will make something clear though, they have not been in the same pen as Buttons, but they are able to get close and sniff each other’s noses. There never is any stress, fighting, or arguments, just greetings. If there was, I would separate the bunnies away from one another.
Buttons and Lunar always play with each other. They sniff each other’s noses then zoom around binkying, then come back to the same place and repeat it. I can tell that Lunar is not ready to get closer to Buttons because of his tail. He flicks it and stands it straight up like an antenna. I’m using that as a gauge of his hormonal state. Once he doesn’t flick it any more, he isn’t hormonal.
Buttons often parked himself in the corner to be close to Maple.
A few days earlier I raked all the gum leaves up in Button’s pen. He was in there and watched me intently. He now tidies up for me and picks each leaf up and puts them on his bum-crumb pile. He spends a lot of time each day carrying the leaves over to the pile.