spraying buck

[Ebers]

I have a buck that I recently bought along with a couple of does. I was feeding him the other day & I thought he spit water at me, well I was feeding this evening & it happened again. I smelled it & realized he had peed on me from 5 feet away. Is this something a lot of bucks do or is he freaked out or what's the deal?

 

[alsea1]

He is just being a buck. They do that

 

[Ebers]

Is there anything I can do to fix it? Do all bucks do it? I don't want him spraying my kids

 

[woodsie]

welcome to world of bucks! There's a reason castrating is a must if you want a pet. Ours peed on my friend's foot when she was wearing flip flops, serves her right for wearing thongs on a farm!

 

[Ebers]

Is it a territorial issue or an assertion of dominance?

 

[Bunnylady]

It is a buck marking his territory. Some aren't bad about it, with others, it's like a hobby. Young bucks tend to be worse about it than older animals; maybe the older ones are more comfortable with their "buckness?" I have had a few bucks that would do it whenever I came near their cages, particularly in the springtime. I had a Jersey Wooly once that I had to be careful with. When I was brushing Woolies, I had to make sure that anything that went on the grooming table before him was a buck; if he smelled doe smell on the table, he would write "Ziggie was here" across the front of my shirt! Others have had the opposite problem - a buck that was fine about smelling a doe, but if another buck had been there, they felt a need to "cover" it.

Then there was the buck named Wizard. He went to his first show with some friends of mine. I don't know what inspired this crazy rabbit, but he sprayed the judge! My friends were mortified, but the judge just shrugged it off. When he placed the class, he looked in the rabbits' ears to read the ear numbers to the writer. When he saw Wizard's ear, which read WIZ, he laughed and said, "Well, it's not like I wasn't warned!"

 

[luvmypets]

Thats interesting I knew male dogs di that but did not expect rabbits.

 

[Ebers]

Yep kinda surprised me too I wasn't very happy when it happened.

 

[Ebers]

If I seperate him from the does will it help? I'd like to avoid beeing peed on if possibly lol

 

[Bunnylady]

Unfortunately, the only thing that I have found to be any real help is making sure that the buck's cage is low enough that, when he does it, he can't shoot me in the face.