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Holland Lop Rabbits
Photo Courtesy: RedRose Rabbitry * A very sweet, affectionate animal that loves to play and hop around. The Holland Lop is a cute delightful bunny with adorable floppy ears!The Holland Lop is the smallest and the most popular of the lop-eared rabbits and both it and the Mini Lop are miniature versions of the Lop-earred Rabbit. Named after its home country, Holland, this breed was created in the 1960's. These are very mellow smaller rabbits that are easy for beginners to handle and care for. Holland Lops don't require a lot of space and they eat less than bigger bunnies! For more information about Rabbits and their care:
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Adrian DeCock, of the Netherlands started developing the Holland Lop in 1949. He bred Netherland Dwarfs with French Lops in an attempt to produce a miniature French Lop but instead ended up with what is known today as the Holland lop.
The Hollands were brought to the United States in 1976 by Aleck Brooks III who is the founder of the Holland Lop Rabbit Specialty Club. They were given breed status in the United States in 1979.
Description:
Holland Lops are a small loveable bunny who have wide long
ears, which hang down near their cheeks. Their bone structure is supposed
to look large and massive but they actually have a fine bone structure
and they don't weigh that much. They have broad shoulders, deep chests,
and short thick legs. Being the smallest lop-eared rabbit, their maximum
adult size is 4.0 pounds but for showing they should be about 3.5 lbs.
Color differences:
Holland Lops come in many colors though they are especially
seen in fawn, white, fawn and white, black and white, and tortoise shell
colors.
Some of the different colors are shown below:
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| Blue Holland Lop | Blue Tortoise Shell |
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| Broken Smoke Pearl | Broken Black |
| All photos courtesy: RedRose Rabbitry | |
Comments from people who have kept this pet:
I just brought home a 6 week old black spotted holland lop rabbit and its the sweetest rabbit I've ever seen. It loves to lay in my bed and watch TV with me. Her name is Mercedes.
All your articles have helped me so much in researching Holland Lops. I didn't get my rabbit yet, but I am this summer. So I am researching so I am prepared. Thanks a bunch!
I have a hollandlop bunny named Coco. She loves to have people around all the time. She is very lovable and very old. Coco is a brown colored bunny. She loves my dog. She is so sweet.
Your lops are gorgeous. I am getting one today and he is so cute, but he has a blind eye and I am worried about that. This site has been helpful to learn how to care for them. Thanks.
My bunnie had babies, but it was her first time and everyone was looking in at her every day, and so when she had them she panicked and left them to die. The next day I found them and buried them.
Hi, I'm doing bunnies for 4H this year and I can't wait. I really want to have a Holland lop bunny, because they are so cute. I love the way that their ears hang down! lol
Some of the coolest comments:
Hi - I've had the pleasure of sharing my home with bunnies for the past 20 years and currently have four, one of which is a beautiful light gray, spunky Holland Lop named Samson. Not one bunny has ever once had a hairball (and they certainly shed quite a bit) and they are happy and healthy. The best advice I can offer is to feed these darling creatures an abundance of hay as long as it's Timothy as it's low in protein (Oxbow is the best company out there to order hay from...it's incredibly high quality and smells unbelievably fresh...once you've tried it it's hard to go back to the usual store bought brands). The rabbits appreciate it tremendously and it is now considered very good practice by many rabbit savvy vets and rescuers to give rabbits unlimited hay daily, again as long as it's Timothy. Supplementing alfalfa or other hays in every now and then is fine but Alfalfa is too high in protein. Also check out rabbitcare.org.
I have 2 Holland lops--Chestnut and Twinky. Their personalities are so different! Chestnut is sweet and cuddly while Twinky is very independent and ornery. I adore them both. Chestnut loves to eat and would bounce around as soon as I enter the room while Twinky would be busy "chinning" and owning everything. For hairballs, I try to feed my rabbits a handful of timothy hay everyday to promote good digestion and I prefer papaya as treats which I give in moderation just like carrots (usually 2x a week) for any fruit is rich in sugar. Papaya extract is known to help rid hairballs. I give them a tablespoonful of whole wheat grains or old-fashioned oatmeal and sunflower seeds for their coat about 3x a week. They have the softest fur comparable even to Coco, my darling mini-rex. If handled regularly at an early age, rabbits can be very pleasant, interesting, low-maintenance, lovable pets.
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