I have a male jersey wooly and I want to get him a pal.I don't know which will be a better pal for him.Do females get along with males better than males get along with each other?I need some answers before friday.

-- Stephanie (aubrey56@maine.rr.com), October 14, 2001

Answers

Response to do males or females get along better with males?

depends if he cheats at carsd or not,,LOL

-- stan (sopal@net-port.com), October 14, 2001.

Response to do males or females get along better with males?

What is a jersey wooly? Some kind of Jersey cow? A sheep? A rabbit?

-- Joy F [in So. Wisconsin] (CatFlunky@excite.com), October 14, 2001.

Response to do males or females get along better with males?

I don't get along with either very well...

-- bruce (rural@inebraska.com), October 14, 2001.

Two rabbits of any sex should not be housed in the same cage. Having said that, two males would NOT get along as well as a male and a female.

-- Tracey (trjlanier@cs.com), October 14, 2001.

Two males will eventually fight either to maiming one another or to the death. A male and female will get along but you will have little ones .Two castrated males will usually get along.I raise rabbits and all of my males are in separate cages. Terry

-- Theresa Lipe (elipe@fidnet.com), October 14, 2001.

Most the folks over at the House Rabbit Society advocate a spayed female as a companion for a male (as well as neutering him). If you are near any of their rescue stations, they even have a service where you can bring in your rabbit and have him meet prospective friends, to let them choose who they hit it off with.

-- julie f. (rumplefrogskin@excite.com), October 14, 2001.

I have all my rabbits separated too, but agree..a male and a male unless BOTH are neutered, won't be good roomates. Jersey wooly's are adorable!!

-- Jenny (auntjenny6@aol.com), October 14, 2001.

Stephanie:

Do they have to be in the same cage? Wouldn't side-by-side cages to where they can sniff noses (and wherever)serve just as well?

-- Ken S. in WC TN (scharabo@aol.com), October 14, 2001.

How'd you go from a mini lop to a jersey wooly?

-- Dee (gdgtur@goes.com), October 14, 2001.

Unless the rabbits are raised together, they will not get along, regardless if it is a buck or doe. Bucks will fight and spray urine on each other. Makes for a real mess and a bad stink.

If you put a buck with a doe, he will want to constantly mount her. While this isn't bad if you want kits, it will be bad for the buck, in the long run, since does tned to be very agressive, and could potentially kill the buck, not only because of her mood, but becuase the hormoes that will kick in while pregnant will make her become more protective of the kits, even before they are born.

You will deffinately need to keep them seperated, but can have the cages close together, for them to see each other. Far enough apart, though, if he starts to spray.

-- Wendy Antes (phillips-anteswe@pendleton.usmc.mil), October 15, 2001.

I raise English Angora rabbits and keep all of them in seperate cages unless I take them out for breeding.

BUT...the cages are side by side and I don't have a problem with male spraying...

Also, I have an older doe and an older buck (not Anogras)who has ALWAYS been in cages side by side---when they were outside under a tree, when they were under the screened in back porch, and now that they have a permanent residence in the bunny barn---and they have ALWAYS slept side by side, each in their own cages, and ALWAYS lay side by side to look out over the field while they are just resting in their bunny barn cages. There's never been a problem with spraying and they appear to really love each other. They are about four years old each. The doe is something like a California but has spots and the buck is just a BIG white and brown rabbit.

-- Suzy in Bama (slgt@yahoo.com), October 15, 2001.