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Rabbit sizes

booboobunny

booboobunny

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I was looking at the back of a bag of rabbit food the other day and it showed a picture of a netherland dwarf as 'small', a Dutch as 'medium' and a New Zealand as 'large' breed. Just out of interest what do you class your bunnies as? I would never have said that a Dutch was a medium sized breed.
I always think of sizes:
Dwarf eg netherland dwarf
Small eg Dutch
Medium eg small lop
Large eg English lop
Giant eg Flemish giant
 
It is confusing - especially when they call some lops 'dwarf lops'...my so called dwarf lops are anything but! I would called them medium I guess - with French Lops being large rabbits...or are those Giants?

I have a Nethie - definitely dwarf. Also a Polish - also small - and a Hotot (so I've been told :roll:)- whatever Prudhoe is - he's also small. Cheyenne is lionhead x - lionheads are also small/medium.
 
I got caught out with the dwarf lop thing..i'd assumed dwarf meant small so it was a nice surprise Boo was medium sized

I'd go with your definitions Booboobunny. Mine are all 2.5-3k. i'd say they are medium sized
 
joey&boo said:
I got caught out with the dwarf lop thing..i'd assumed dwarf meant small so it was a nice surprise Boo was medium sized

I'd go with your definitions Booboobunny. Mine are all 2.5-3k. i'd say they are medium sized
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A mini lop is lighter than a dwarf lop then?
 
And what would a holland lop be? Is one an American term and one an English term for the same thing? I have what I would call a mini lop and she weighs 2.5kg and I'd say she was medium breed, and my work colleague has an identical looking rabbit but is half the size, which I would call a dwarf lop, but would say is a small breed! It gets very confusing!
 
booboobunny said:
And what would a holland lop be? Is one an American term and one an English term for the same thing? I have what I would call a mini lop and she weighs 2.5kg and I'd say she was medium breed, and my work colleague has an identical looking rabbit but is half the size, which I would call a dwarf lop, but would say is a small breed! It gets very confusing!
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I've no idea which way around the dwarf and mini work :lol:

My mini lop (so called on Preloved) is 1.7kg
 
mini lop and holland lop i think are the same at 2-3lb and they are dwarf size. The dwarf lop is only a dwarf compared to the french lop or english lop, which i think it might have come from. My dwarf lop adults are 1yr old this month and weight 3.3kg the babies are 6mths and weigh 2.5kg. I thought they were supposed to be small when i got them and when they kept on growing i did lots of reading lol..
 
booboobunny said:
And what would a holland lop be? Is one an American term and one an English term for the same thing? I have what I would call a mini lop and she weighs 2.5kg and I'd say she was medium breed, and my work colleague has an identical looking rabbit but is half the size, which I would call a dwarf lop, but would say is a small breed! It gets very confusing!
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In the UK the Dwarf Lop is not a 'dwarf' breed at all ! The US 'Holland Lop' is known as a 'Mini Lop' in the UK. The UK Dwarf Lop is referred to as the 'Mini Lop' in the USA !!

CONFUSED.COM :lol:

The British Dwarf Lop is a medium sized Rabbit weighing approximately 2kg-2.3kg, although non show Dwarf Lops can be larger, up to about 3kg.
The Holland Lop is a dwarfed down version of the French Lop and was originally bred in Holland (obviously !)
 
My dwarf lop, Elphie, is currently underweight at 1.75kg. Her target weight is probably between 2 and 2.25kg, so we have a bit of a way to go. Most of my rabbits are what I classify as medium: between 2 and 3kg at a healthy weight. Only Apollo is small at about 1.7kg and Little Bit (Takumi) is a proper dwarf at 1.1kg.

Breeds:

Mediums:
Medium cross: Rivergrace and Morningstar - River and Morning are definitely my biggest buns, but aren't giants at all. Probably just shy of 3kg each.
Lionhead/Lionhead cross: Athena
Dwarf Lop: Elphie
Standard Rex: Helios and Selene

Small:
Dutch cross: Apollo

Dwarf:
Mini Rhinelander (I think? Apparently it's a breed 'under development'): Takumi
 
Ooh thanks jack's-Jane, I think that means that Boo Boo is actually a dwarf lop! Florence is a netherland so she's a dwarf. Lottie is a Dutch but I believe she may have been crossed with a dwarf, so she's like a slightly smaller version of a Dutch and Albie is an unknown breed but he's similar in size to Lottie, so a little bigger than a dwarf - I think he might be mini rhinelander type as well
 
As you know all 6 of mine came from 2 dwarf lops (brother & sister eeww) and they have a big range between them. Pepe is the smallest with a small head and cosmo is the biggest with a massive head. Just goes to show that things get mixed up when breeding and its pot luck sometimes what you end up with.
 
willow and squiggles said:
mini lop and holland lop i think are the same at 2-3lb and they are dwarf size. The dwarf lop is only a dwarf compared to the french lop or english lop, which i think it might have come from. My dwarf lop adults are 1yr old this month and weight 3.3kg the babies are 6mths and weigh 2.5kg. I thought they were supposed to be small when i got them and when they kept on growing i did lots of reading lol..
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Ah this makes sense :thumb:
 
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