Blanc de Hotot

Blanc de Hotot

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: France YEAR RECOGNIZED: 1979 USES: Fur, meat WEIGHT: 11 pounds (5 kg) max., senior does BODY TYPE: Commercial FUR TYPE: Rollback; 1 inches (3.2 cm) long ideal; dense, lustrous, fine COLORS: Frosty white with black eye bands (circles) SEEKING AN IDEAL FUR, MEAT, AND SHOW RABBIT, French breeder Eugenie Bernhard began developing … Read more

Beveren Rabbit

Beveren Rabbit

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Belgium YEAR RECOGNIZED: Unknown USES: Fur, meat WEIGHT: 12 pounds (5.5 kg) max., senior does BODY TYPE: Semi-arch FUR TYPE: Rollback: 1 –1 inches (3.2–3.8 cm) long; dense, glossy COLORS: Black, blue, white The beveren rabbit has achieved high marks for meat, fur, and exhibition. Curiously, it has never been an enduringly … Read more

Belgian Hare

Belgian Hare

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: England YEAR RECOGNIZED: 1914 USES: Pet, show WEIGHT: 9.5 pounds (4.3 kg) max., senior bucks and does BODY TYPE: Full-arch FUR TYPE: Flyback; ARBA Commercial Normal Fur Standard COLORS: Rich, deep chestnut over slate-blue undercolor with black ticking THE BELGIAN HARE’S SLENDER, FULL-ARCH BODY suggests that of a wild hare. Its genetic … Read more

Argente Brun

Argente Brun

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: France YEAR RECOGNIZED: 2015 USES: Pet, show, meat WEIGHT: 10.5 pounds (4.8 kg) max., senior does BODY TYPE: Commercial FUR TYPE: Flyback; ARBA Commercial Normal Fur Standard COLORS: Silvered chocolate brown with longer, dark brown guard hairs and dark chocolate under colour; slightly darker muzzle, ears, and feet THE ARGENTE BRUN IS … Read more

American Sable

American Sable

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: United States YEAR RECOGNIZED: 1931 USES: Show, meat WEIGHT: 10 pounds (4.5 kg) max., senior does BODY TYPE: Commercial FUR TYPE: Rollback; fine, soft, dense COLORS: Sepia brown with paler shading on flanks DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMERICAN SABLE BREED began in 1924 with atypically furred Chinchilla Rabbits from Otto Brock’s rabbitry in … Read more

American Rabbit

American Rabbit

The American was originally known as the German Blue Vienna but was renamed during America’s conflict with Germany in World War I. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: United States YEAR RECOGNIZED: 1918 USES: Fur, meat WEIGHT: 12 pounds (5.5 kg) max., senior does BODY TYPE: Semi-arch FUR TYPE: Flyback; ARBA Commercial Normal Fur Standard COLORS: Blue, white … Read more

American Fuzzy Lop

American-Fuzzy-Lop-Rabbit

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: United States YEAR RECOGNIZED: 1988 USES: Pet, show WEIGHT: 4 pounds (1.8 kg) max., senior does BODY TYPE: Compact FUR TYPE: Wool; dense, slightly coarse COLORS: Agouti Group — chestnut, chinchilla, lynx, squirrel Broken Group — any recognized breed color in conjunction with white and carrying the breed pattern Pointed White Group … Read more