guess the rabbit breed

[lexi nichols]

Champagne d'Argent

yup, your turn

 

[BantamLover21]

Photo from Wikipedia (but don't go looking there).

 

[Bunnylady]

I've only seen one breed with a head like that - Belgian Hare.

 

[lexi nichols]

Photo from Wikipedia (but don't go looking there).

hmm is it a Belgian hare

 

[BantamLover21]

Yes, Belgian Hare.

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

guess the breed
View attachment 1029911 this is my favorite breed

I can't even believe this is real! I saw a preview on the forum random-pics and thought for sure it was a stuffed animal!!!

 

[chickens really]

What's Bunny Boy?...Actually a girl...

 

[Bunnylady]

Probably a Holland Lop mix, though if this was, oh, 25 years ago, I'd say a poor-quality purebred Holland was also possible (you hardly ever see that much ear control in purebreds these days).

 

[chickens really]

Probably a Holland Lop mix, though if this was, oh, 25 years ago, I'd say a poor-quality purebred Holland was also possible (you hardly ever see that much ear control in purebreds these days).

Cool...Thanks. She is Canadian also......was sold as a Holland lop.

 

[Bunnylady]

Cool...Thanks. She is Canadian also......was sold as a Holland lop.

The Holland Lop was created during the 1960's and 70's, using some of the other Lop breeds and large doses of Netherland Dwarf DNA. They are a wildly popular breed. When I first got into them in the '80's, it wasn't unusual to see some ear control, even in show-quality rabbits. I can remember hearing tales of people taping coins in their rabbits' ears to try to convince the ears to go down. Though weak or damaged ligaments may cause ears to go down in other breeds, in the Lops, I like to say it's a combination of geography and gravity. A Lop's skull is wide, with the ears set well apart and to the sides, so the ears don't have a lot of support; gravity does the rest (even on the short ears of the Hollands). A good Holland has ears that hang vertically on either side of the face,with a strong crown, and virtually no ear control, though some young animals have control and lose it as they mature. I used to see a lot of "Weeble ears" (like the toy, they wobble but don't go down), but these days, even the ones that I see being sold as pet quality have ears that don't usually come above horizontal.