My youngest doe is just reaching maturity and has gone off the deep end. I separated her from her brother when he started to show interest about a month ago and housed her in a split 2x4 next to an older buck. Each rabbit had 2x2' of space with a hay loft, resting board, and flat oval food dish. A week later I went to pick up her food dish to fill it and she attacked me from under the hay loft. I had to throw a towel over her to accomplish feeding her. I figured she was adjusting to being alone and spent the next week feeding her treats and letting her have her space with occasional handling but she did not improve. After her teeth connected with my finger I decided to change her setup. I moved her to a separate 2x2 top opening cage with no hay loft and a removeable plastic house so she had nothing to hide under and attack me from. We also started petting and handling her multiple times daily. At first she was better and while we got lots of squeaks and grunts she did not attempt to attack anyone for reaching in her cage. The past couple days she's quickly gotten worse again. Today she just attacked the water bottle tube when I went to pull the bottle off the outside of the cage and refill it.
What do you do with an attack rabbit? You think she'll grow out of it? She has good type and color or I probably would consider culling her right now and letting someone else deal with her. Even if she settles down I'm leaning towards selling her as soon as I get a good doe or 2 from her. I'm hoping my really laid back buck with temper her personality and I won't go through this with her offspring.
What do you do with an attack rabbit? You think she'll grow out of it? She has good type and color or I probably would consider culling her right now and letting someone else deal with her. Even if she settles down I'm leaning towards selling her as soon as I get a good doe or 2 from her. I'm hoping my really laid back buck with temper her personality and I won't go through this with her offspring.