All rabbit breeds with useful information, weight, body type, special care information

American Rabbit

    American:

  • Weight: 9 - 12 pounds. 
  • Body Type: Slate blue or white. This rabbit has well-rounded hindquarters, narrow shoulders, and long erect ears.
American fuzzy lop Rabbit

    American fuzzy lop:

  • Weight: 3 to 4 pounds.
  • Body Type: These small rabbits have a large, flatted "bulldog" face and lopped ears, and look somewhat like a Holland Lop with long fur. They have been bred in many different colors.
  • Special Care: This is a wool breed and will require extensive daily grooming and a special diet.
American Sable Rabbit

    American Sable:

  • Weight: 7 - 10 pounds. 
  • Body Type: Nose, ears, feet, and tail very fark brown, body a sepia color. Body is medium long and full, head narrow, and ears long and erected.
English Angora Rabbit

    English Angora:

  • Weight: 5 to 7 pounds.
  • Body Type: Thick wool covers the entire rabbit, including the face and the stand-up ears, giving in the appearance of a large fuzz-ball. They have been in many colors.
  • Special Care: These rabbits require special diets and extensive daily grooming.
French Angora Rabbit

    French Angora:

  • Weight: 7 1/2 to 10 1/2 pounds. 
  • Body Type: Medium long rounded body, ears long and erect. Face, ears, and front feet have short fur; rest of body has very long wool. Many different colors have been bred.
  • Special Care: This rabbit must be fed a special diet and carefully groomed every day.
Belgian Hare Rabbit

    Belgian Hare:

  • Weight: 6 - 9 1/2 pounds. 
  • Body Type: This rannit has a lean racy body that looks more like a hare's than a rabbit's. Large upright ears. 
  • Special Care: Some rabbit owners claim it is more prone to bone fractures if mishanddled, due to the bosy type.
Beveren Rabbit

    Beveren:

  • Weight: 8 - 12 pounds. 
  • Body Type: Pear-shaped body, long erect ears, dense coat of black, blue, or white. 
Britannia Petite Rabbit

    Britannia Petite:

  • Weight: 2 - 2 1/2 pounds.
  • Body Type: These tiny, compact rabbits have relatively narrow heads and a trim, arched body line. Ears are medium long and erect. Colors include white, black, otter, chesnut, agouti (like a wild rabbit), and sable marten.
  • Special Care: Experienced rabbit breeders have claimed these rabbits have a tendency to be more hyper and nip more than other breeds and that they require especially careful handling because of the delicate arched body type.
California Rabbit

    California:

  • Weight: 8 - 10 1/2 pounds. 
  • Body Type: White with black ears, nose, feet, and tail. Full-bodied with medium-length upright ears.
Champahne Rabbit

    Champahne: D'Argent:

  • Weight: 9 - 12 pounds. 
  • Body Type: This unusal rabbit has a coat that changes gradually from black when very young to silver when adult. Body is medium length, full and round; ears are long and erect.
Checkered Giant Rabbit

    Checkered Giant:

  • Weight: 12 + pounds.
  • Body Type: White with spots of black or blue on the nose, check, back, and hindquarters. It has a racy type body with an arch to the back. The head is relatively large; ears long and erect. 
  • Special Care: Some rabbit owners claim this breed takes extra care becuase the racier body is more prone to injury and the large size makes handling difficult. Not for a first-time rabbit owners.
Standerd Chinchilla Rabbit

    Standerd Chinchilla:

  • Weight: 5 - 7 pounds. 
  • Body Type: Compact chuby-looking body of medium length. Ears long and upright. Each hair of fur has three bands of different colors; blue at the base, pearl in the middle, and black at the top.
American Chinchilla Rabbit

    American Chinchilla:

  • Weight: 9 - 12 pounds.
  • Body Type: Medium length body with well rounded hindquarters. Base of each hair is slate blue. intermediate band id pearl, top band is black. Ears are long and upright.
Giant Chinchilla Rabbit

    Giant Chinchilla:

  • Weight: 12 + pounds. 
  • Body Type: Fur is banded slate-blue, pearl, and black. Body is long and full, ears long and erect.
Cinnamon Rabbit

    Cinnamon:

  • Weight: 8 1/2 to 11 pounds. 
  • Body Type: Cinnamon-colored rabit with gray ticking across the back. Body is medium length, well rounded; ears are large and erect.
Creme D'Argent Rabbit

    Creme D'Argent:

  • Weight: 8 - 11 pounds. 
  • Body Type: Orange-silver-colored rabbit. Medium-length rounded body. Ears medium long and upright.
Dutch Rabbit

    Dutch:

    (Good Choice for Pets)
  • Weight: 3 3/12 - 5 1/2 pounds.
  • Body Type: Compactly built rabbits with well rounded hindquarters. There is a blaze of white on the face, and the front feet, upper torso, and toes to mid-foot of the hind feet are also white. The rest of the body is white, blue, black, chocolate, tortoise, steel or gray. Ears are genetally large and upright.
  • Special Care: This breed usually does well with childern.
English Spot Rabbit

    English Spot:

  • Weight: 6 - 8 pounds. 
  • Body Type: Racy body, long erect ears. Butterfly mark on nose, check spots, line down the back, and side spots are colored, body is white. 
  • Special Care: Some people claim it has a rather nervous temperment.
Flemish Giant Rabbit

    Flemish Giant:

  • Weight: 14 + pounds.
  • Body Type: Massive long body, ears long and upright. Fur is black, blue, fawn, light gray, sandy, steel or white. This rabbit takes strength to handle.
Florida White Rabbit

    Florida White:

  • Weight: 4 - 6 pounds.
  • Body Type: Short rounded body, rounded head and short erect ears. They are white with ruby (pink) eyes.
Giant Rabbit

    Giant:

  • Weight: 8 1/2 to 9 1/2 pounds. 
  • Body Type: These rabbits are white with ruby eyes. Compact and rounded with long wool on entire body, including tail, feet and upright ears. This rabbit has the most wool of any, because of a dense undercoat. 
  • Special Care: It requres extensive daily grooming and a special high-protein diet.
Harlequin Rabbit

    Harlequin:

  • Weight: 7 to 9 1/2 pounds. 
  • Body Type: This striking rabbit originated in France. Th body is banded with two colors, and the head is also two colors. It has a medium-length body with rounded hindquarters, a rounded head, and long, upright ears.
Havana Rabbit

    Havana:

  • Weight: 4 1/2 - 6 1/2 pounds.
  • Body Type: Black, blue or chocolate colored. Body is short with wide shoulders and hind-quarters. Head is narrow, ears medium-long and upright.
Himalayan Rabbit

    Himalayan:

  • Weight: 2 1/2 - 4 1/2 pounds.
  • Body Type: White rabbits with ears, nose, feet, and tail colored black, blue, lilac, or chocolate. Body is long and narrow with narrow head and rather short erect ears.
Dwarf Hotot Rabbit

    Dwarf Hotot:

  • Weight: 2 - 3 pounds.
  • Body Type: These little rabbits have a very striking appearance they are all white except for a ring of clack around the eyes, which makes them look white rabbits with black eyeliner. They have compact, rounded bodies and short, upright ears.
Hotol Rabbit

    Hotot:

  • Weight: 8 - 11 pounds. 
  • Body Type: Like the Drarf Hotot this rabbit is white with black ringing the eye. Body is rounded and thick, head is narrow, ears are medium-long and upright.
Jersey Wooly Rabbit

    Jersey Wooly:

  • Weight: 2 3/4 to 3 1/2 pounds.
  • Body Type: Body is rounded and compact. The Fur on the face and upright ears is short the rest of the body has long dense fur. They have been bred in many colors.
  • Special Care: These rabbits require extra time for grooming and special diet.
Lionhead Rabbit

    Lionhead:

  • Weight: 3 - 3 3/4 pounds.
  • Body Type: This breed originated in Belgium but has been developed in England. Body is well-rounded. Fur on body is dense and of medium length fur two to three inches long froms a mane around rabbits with both lopped and upright ears are being developed at the time of this writing but only one or the other is likely to be accepted by professional breeders associations.
Lilac Rabbit

    Lilac:

  • Weight: 5 3/4 to right pounds. 
  • Body Type: This rabbit is dove-gray with a pinkish tint. It has a medium-sized body with a somewhat narrow head and medium-long erect ears.
English lop Rabbit

    English lop:

    (It is not recommended for a first time rabbit owner.)
  • Weight: 9 to 12 pounds. 
  • Body Type: Hinderquarters are rounded, shoulder and head narrow. The ears are lopped and extremely large, often measuring 24 inches from tip to tip. 
  • Special Care: This rabbit requires extra care because of the ears. which are susceptible to disease and injury. 
French Lop Rabbit

    French Lop:

  • Weight: 10 - 14 pounds. 
  • Body Type: The largest of the lop breeds. This rabbit has massive, well muscled body with a wide head and thick, wide, lopped ears. The French Lop has been bred in many different colors.
  • Special Care: Favorite companion rabbit of many because of its laid back and affectionate personality.
Holland Lop Rabbit

    Holland Lop:

  • Weight: 2 3/4 to four pounds.
  • Body Type: Head is slightly flattened, body is short and looks massive. They have lopped ears and a prominent "crowns" (the ridge of cartilage between the ars). These popular rabits come in many colors and have soft, fine fur.
American fuzzy lop Rabbit

    American fuzzy lop:

  • Weight: 3 to 4 pounds.
  • Body Type: These small rabbits have a large, flatted "bulldog" face and lopped ears, and look somewhat like a Holland Lop with long fur. They have been bred in many different colors.
  • Special Care: This is a wool breed and will require extensive daily grooming and a special diet.
Velveteen Lop Rabbit

    Velveteen Lop:

  • Weight: 5 - 6 1/2 pounds.
  • Body Type: Body is mandolin, shaped, chest is full and rounded. The ears are lopped and measured from 14 inches tip to tip. fur is like that of rex rabbits (this breed has been discribed as a minia, true Emglish Lop with rex fur.) It is being bred in seleral colors.
Mini Lop Rabbit

    Mini Lop:

    (Good Choice for Pets)
  • Weight: 4 1/2 - 6 /12 pounds.
  • Body Type: Body is massive, thick-set, with short neck. Eas are lopped, and the ears and crown form a horseshoe shape on the top of the head. Fur is thick and dense. Many different colors have been bred.
  • Special Care: A sturdy nrelent for children. 
Mini Plush Lo Rabbit

    Mini Plush Lop:

    (Good Choice for Pets)
  • Weight: 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 pounds.
  • Body Type: This breed was created in the late 1990s by Devie D'Anniballe by mixing the Mini rex, Mini Lop, and Holland Lop. It is not recognize by ARBA at the time of this writing. The fur is like that of a rex, the appearance between that of a small Mini Lop and Holland Lop.
  • Good Choice for Pets: Personality usually affectionate.
Netherland Dwarf Rabbit

    Netherland Dwarf:

  • Weight: 1 3/4 - 2 1/2 pounds.
  • Body Type: These rabbits have compact, rounded bodies, large heads, short necks, and short, erect ears. Fur is glossy and dense and comes in many colors.
  • Special Care: Like the Britannia Petite, some rabbit owners claim these are more prone to nip than other rabbits and might be less suitable for children.
New Zealand Rabbit

    New Zealand:

    (Makes an excellent pet)
  • Weight: 9 - 12 pounds. 
  • Body Type: Fur black, red or white. Body is medium sized and well rounded. Ear are medium-long and upright. One of the rabbit breeds often used in laboratories.
Palomino Rabbit

    Palomino:

  • Weight: 8 - 10 1/2 pounds. 
  • Body Type: This rabbit has beautiful fur of a golden or lynx color. Body meduim-length, ears medium-long and upright.
Polish Rabbit

    Polish:

  • Weight: 2 - 3 1/2 pounds.
  • Body Type: Compact body; short thick upright ears. Fur is short and dense and is black, blue, chocolate, white, or broken (color is in splotches on white background).
Mini Plush Lo Rabbit

    Mini Plush Lop:

    (Good Choice for Pets)
  • Weight: 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 pounds.
  • Body Type: This breed was created in the late 1990s by Devie D'Anniballe by mixing the Mini rex, Mini Lop, and Holland Lop. It is not recognize by ARBA at the time of this writing. The fur is like that of a rex, the appearance between that of a small Mini Lop and Holland Lop.
  • Good Choice for Pets: Personality usually affectionate.
Rex Rabbit

    Rex:

  • Weight: 7 1/2 to 10 1/2 pounds. 
  • Body Type: Medium-sized, well-rounded body with large erect ears. COats is as with Mini Rex looking and feeling like plush velvet.
Mini Rex Rabbit

    Mini Rex:

  • Weight: 2 3/4 to 4 1/2 pounds.
  • Body Type: The mini rex rabbits has a compact body with narrow shoulders; short, thick, upright ears, and a rex coat. Rex coats have guard hairs which are fine, stright, and no longer than the underhairs, resulting in a plush coat that looks and feels somewhat like velvet. They have been bred in many colors.
Rhinelander Rabbit

    Rhinelander:

  • Weight: 6 3/4 to 10 pounds. 
  • Body Type: This is a tricolored rabbit with with spots of black and orange. It has a rather racy body with a narrow head and long upright ears.

    Satin:

  • Weight: 8 to 10 1/2 pounds. 
  • Body Type: The coat of this rabbit is dense, soft, and has a sheen to it. It has been bred in many colors. The body is medium-long and erect.
Mini Satin Rabbit

    Mini Satin:

  • Weight: 3 - 4 1/2 pounds.
  • Body Type: Several people in the USA are working to develop a small rabbit with the fur and body of the eight to 10 1/2 pound standard Satin.
Stain Angora Rabbit Breeds

    Stain Angora:

  • Weight: 6 1/2 - 9 pounds.
  • Body Type: This rabbit has long, fine, glossy-appearing wool covering all it's body but the head and the upright ears. 
  • Special Care: It requires extra grooming and a special diet.
Silver Fox Rabbit

    Silver Fox:

  • Weight: 9 - 12 pounds. 
  • Body Type: Fur is black with silver white hairs throughout coat. Body is of medium length, well-rounded. Head rather narrow, eas medium-long and erect. 
  • Special Care: Temperament is generally calm.
Silver Rabbit

    Silver:

  • Weight: 4 - 7 pounds.
  • Body Type: Black, brown or fawn rabbits with white thick (silvering). Body relatively long, head narrow, ears long and erect.
Silver Marten Rabbit Breeds

    Silver Marten:

  • Weight: 6 1/2 - 9 1/2 pounds.
  • Body Type: Black, blue, chocolate, or sable fur with chest, shoulders, flanks, hindquarters and limbs dotted with long white-tapped guard hairs. Body is medium-sized and well-rounded, ears long and erect.
Tan Rabbit

    Tan:

  • Weight: 4 - 6 pounds.
  • Body Type: Belly, chest, flanks, inner part of front and hind legs, trigngle at nape of neck and underside of tail are tan. The rest of the fur is solid black, blue, chocolate, or lilac-colored. Body is narrow and thin, medium long and racy looking. Ears are large and upright.
Velveteen Lop Rabbit

    Velveteen Lop:

  • Weight: 5 - 6 1/2 pounds.
  • Body Type: Body is mandolin, shaped, chest is full and rounded. The ears are lopped and measured from 14 inches tip to tip. fur is like that of rex rabbits (this breed has been discribed as a minia, true Emglish Lop with rex fur.) It is being bred in seleral colors.

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