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Breed help

Lucy

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We've had a rabbit in which we were told was a reduced size French lop. Now, to me that doesn't sound right, I've never heard of a 'reduced size' before. She's 9lbs in weight which appears to be tubbyness more than anything. What do you guys think?

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She looks like a mini Charm. I'd say Dwarf lop as they're the smaller versions of Frenchies.
Deffinatly a french or a drawf. But at 9lb I'm guessing dwarf. Charm is like 14 and still underweight.
 
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I had a lop much like her when I was younger.....she was just a Heinze.

Its not one of these strange fads like labradoodles is it? :shock: Or a way of sellling a mixed breed bunny for a premium?

I have another P@H 'dwarf lop' arriving today.....apparently she is HUGE!!
 
In face, body and ear shape she looks much more like a french lop than a dwarf lop to me, so I'd say she's definitely either a small frenchie or maybe a frenchie-x. 9lb is just over 4kg isn't it, is she less than a year old, it's possible that she's just not a fully grown frenchie. A dwarf lop shouldn't get more than about 2.5kg so can't really be a pure one of those either. Whatever she is, she's luuuurvely :D
 
Maybe she's part french part smaller breed. This would account for her being so small yet still looking deciededly like a french and also for the daft breed name they gave her? She deffinatly has french in her.
 
i dont know if this has anything to do with it really, but the shape of her ears and the fluffy tuf on her head is the same peanut and hes a dwarf lop, maybe shes a french x drwaf lop?x
 
she definately has the ears of a frenchie and at 9lb is definately the minimum weight for a frenchie. Lucy, put your hand by her head and if her head is practically the same size as yoru hand then she is a frenchie, if her head is tiny then she is a very very over weight dwarf;)
 
Maybe 'reduced size' is a technical term in showing/breeding circles, meaning a pure breed bunny but one that isn't as big as the minimum size for the breed standard :?
 
Hmmm, I hate it when they're not obvious :lol: She may be a frenchie cross then. She is 1 year old so would be fully grown by now. I think we'll label her as a French lop cross as I think thats the closest we're going to get!
 
She's a french lop cross. Too small to be a Frenchy but with deffinate Frenchy characteristics. I mean if she wasn't so small I would have immediatly said Frenchy because she does look a lot like Charm, but she's so small.
 
She's a french lop cross. Too small to be a Frenchy but with deffinate Frenchy characteristics. I mean if she wasn't so small I would have immediatly said Frenchy because she does look a lot like Charm, but she's so small.

my frenchie is just under 5kg which is around 10lb in weight, he is fully grown and is nearly 3 years old, he is definately not a frenchie cross so would definately say that Lucy's was not too small to be a frenchie. Minimum weight for a frenchie according to the excel chart is 9lb with no upward limit;)
 
Possably. She does look so much like a Frenchy but it does sound rather small. But I only have one frenchy and as I say he's 14lb and still rather underweight. Nothing to compare him to.

So I'll just say she looks like a frenchy but is so much smaller than mine. I can't really say more can I? :p
 
So she could just be a french lop at the bottom end of the size scale?

get your measuring tape out Lucy;) :lol: :lol: frenchies ears and feet are huge, my Marcel de Buns ears measure 6 inches and his back feet measure 5 inches;)
 
Shes a German Lop - max weight 8 1/2lb and an angled roman nose - which shes got. Shes possibly still a cross because that dewlap is huge :shock: and shes a Fawn, that colour doesn't exist in German Lops.

www.nationalgermanlopclub.co.uk

This website shows the difference between Frenchies and German Lops

http://www.kanichengermanlops.co.uk/4.html

BTW I breed German Lops and have done for 10 years so if you have any bred specific questions please feel free to PM me.
 
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