Breeding sister and mother daughter pairs?

[Jen (preschoolbunny lady)]

Don't seperate. I never had any trouble with other does around, retired and spayed does were actually great aunties for the kits, taking off some load from the doe.

When nesting and kindling they are on remote control anyway, and the other does get out of the way.
I only make sure that they use seperate nest boxes, by blocking the tunnel between the hutches when the second doe is about to kindle, for a day max, and they still get garden time together.

I would love to keep the buck with the does like dlynn, but I don't need more than one litter per doe and year. Bucks can be a great with the does and kits.

Thanks for your input! Sounds like you have an amazing set up with shared/and separate spaces and tunnels and outdoor space! Think I'll go with only breeding one doe and watching them closely!

 

[Jen (preschoolbunny lady)]

Thanks. Sounds like you have a large, efficient, safe and fun set up for raising happy meat rabbits (though not such a "happy" ending lol )

 

[hotzcatz]

How would you integrate the does? Just throw them in together and let them figure it out?

Yup. The space is big enough with enough places to hide and there's enough other does to run interference when one bunny wants to become head queen empress bunny that no one other bunny gets particularly picked on. In a smaller group or a smaller space, then the dominant bun could catch and injure the submissive ones.