The Life of Animals | Holland Lop | Holland lops are a breed of rabbit originating in the Netherlands. The breed was recognized by the Netherlands' Governing Rabbit Council in 1964 and the American Rabbit Breeders' Association in 1979. This breed marked its beginning when Dutch rabbit breeder Adrian de Cock sought to combine the best qualities from two distinctively different rabbit breeds, the French Lop and the Netherland Dwarf, into a new breed.
In the winter, de Cock bred a white Netherland Dwarf doe to a French Lop buck, but obtained an undesirable litter. Unsatisfied, he decided to switch the sexes in the breeds, breeding a French Lop doe and a Netherland Dwarf buck. Subsequently, in 1952, de Cock took a doe from the litter of six to breed with an English Lop buck. Producing five young of mixed ear carriage between lopped, erect and half-lopped.
It ties as the smallest breed of the lop-eared rabbits with the American Fuzzy Lop with an ideal weight of 3.0 - 4.0 lbs (1.6 kg) for showing in American Rabbit Breeders' Association sanctioned shows. The most common colors attributed to Holland Lops are tortoise shell, broken tortoise shell, broken black and black, black, broken orange, as well as blue eyed white and ruby eyed white. The Holland Lop shares a color guide in the ARBA Standards consisting of well over twenty colors with the fuzzy lop. Holland Lops are popular among new rabbit owners for their "loppish" ears and round faces. Holland Lops have a gentle nature. These rabbits make great pets.
