Don't ferrets eat rabbits? Or am I making that up :lol2:

 

Yep lol

 

Yes they do eat rabbits, hence me not yet having a ferret and asking the questions

 

Seemed a sensible question to me - no good getting them and then finding that everyone says you're daft for putting 2 species like that close to each other! :2thumb:

 

I've kept rabbits and ferrets in the same room, neither cared about each other.
The ferrets were far more interested in trying to get to the rats in the other room.

It really varies though, if you have rabbits that are easily stressed out then it's not an ideal idea to have them in the same vicinity.
You could also be landed with a ferret that wont leave them alone.

Ferrets will eat a rabbit but their sole purpose in hunting is to flush them out of the warrens for them to be shot.

 

in college we have a large 10ft by 6ft open top glass enclosure which is divided into three, the ferrets could always see the rabbits but were never bothered by them

 

our rabbits and ferrets are around 4m apart, wouldn't let them be together as have seen first hand what a ferret can do to a rabbit when I was younger, so just wouldn't risk it, don't have any problems with them as they are, when the ferrets are out in the garden the rabbits are kept away and vice versa.

 

Depends on the prey drive of the ferrets and how stressy your rabbits are to be honest.
We keep 4 ferrets in big indoor cages with a free roaming house rabbit and have had no problems at all..The rabbit hops-sniffs around the ferrets cages..yes the ferrets sniff at the rabbit but that's all really.We have let the rabbit have (very supervised ) face to face meetings outside of the cage with our 2 older boys as we know neither of them have a high prey drive.
The other 2 have a slightly higher prey drive so have only met though the cage bars.But are getting better..one even had his nose chinned while sniffing though the cage the other week lol.

 

my ferret shed is less than 1m from the side of the rabbit shed, neither are bothered. just use common sense and make sure any exposed wire in the rabbit shed is small enough that the ferrets head cant get through.

I would say that if you're going to have problems at all, its going to be with the ferrets prey drive going mental, but just make sure they cant get in, are well fed and have better things to occupy them than rabbit mascaraing and you should be fine.

to give an example, most of mine are retired workers, I feed rabbit on a regular basis, yet what was the first thing my former best rabbiter did when she got past me one day? try to play with the goat.

 

My rabbits have the run of the garden and regularly go up to the ferret enclosure and rub noses with them, neither seem to really care, rabbits can get nervous about the smell of ferrets and very jumpyn but they do get used to it over time once they realise they are in no danger.

 

Ok thanks, might be a possibility then