Could you put female rabbits in the same cage as eachother?

Question

i m getting 6 rabbits 3 male and 3 female.. could i put the females together? and im planning to get my 2 oldest rabbits and planning to make them breed and also jst anoyother tips?

Answer 1

In my experience, two females per cage are ok together but never two males as they are likely to fight. More than two females together is a bad idea because of room in the cage (even if it's a two story hutch). Also by having one of the females in a seperate cage to the other two gives you the chance to breed one female at a time in its own cage (you can swap the rabbits round depending on which one you want to breed) as they will not take well to having kids in a hutch with other animals including the buck you breed her with.  

Answer 2

No, not really.

Because, being unspayed, they'd be very territorial and aggressive to each other. You really need SIX seperate cages. Males and females should only be together to breed, and they shouldn't really be housed together as this can cause fighting, aggression, and injury. All good breeders will have one cage per animal, and then one cage per gender per litter (so 'batch one' with four females and five males would have two cages, one for females, one for males, and litters wouldn't be mixed).

On top of that, if you're planning to get them to breed, they can't be together when giving birth, as they're liable to kill each others' babies, or feel so threatened by the other mother that they'd kill their own babies.

Breeding is an expensive thing. If you can't even afford the basics- the right number of cages- you shouldn't be doing it. What happens if they get sick? What happens if they need an emergancy c-section?