All Rabbit Breeds

This catalog of rabbit breeds lists all rabbit breeds recognized in the USA, including a brief description and a link to the breed's national organization (if available).

If the rabbit breed title is a link, you can follow it to our short rabbit breed information page with photo.

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The American Rabbit Breeders Association (ARBA) is the national rabbit organization that recognizes these rabbit breeds.

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ALL RABBIT BREEDS: A

American

• Senior Weight: 9 - 12 pounds
• Type: Semi-arch (mandolin)
• Color: Blue, White
• Distinctive: Old American meat breed; breed has been identified as critically endangered
• Contact: Breeders of the American Rabbit
  

 

American Fuzzy Lop

• Senior Weight: 3 1/2 - 3 3/4 pounds
• Type: Compact and short
• Colors: Agouti, broken, pointed white, self, shaded and wide band
• Distinctive: A lop-eared rabbit resembling the Mini Lop, but smaller, and with wool that is at least 2 inches long.
• National Club: American Fuzzy Lop Rabbit Club
  

 

American Sable

• Senior Weight: 7 - 10 pounds
• Type: Commercial
• Color: Shaded sepia brown, very dark on face and points, and lighter across body.
• Distinctive: Color
• National Club: American Sable Rabbit Society

 

Angora - English

• Senior Weight: 5 - 7 ½ pounds
• Type: Compact
• Color: Many. Regardless of color, wool colors are very pale due to dilution of pigment.
• Distinctive: Its fine soft wool up to 5+ inches long.  All areas of rabbit covered in wool, except for the immediate face.
• National Club: National Angora Rabbit Breeders Club

Angora - French

• Senior Weight: 7 ½ - 10 ½ pounds.
• Type: Commercial
• Uses: 1) wool, 2) meat
• Color: Many. Regardless of color, wool colors are very pale due to dilution of pigment.
• Distinctive: Wool is 3.5 - 4.5 inches long.  Head and ears are not wooled (no furnishings).
• National Club: National Angora Rabbit Breeders Club

Angora - Giant

• Senior Weight: 9 ½ pounds and over.  (No maximum weight given.)
• Type: Commercial
• Color: Ruby-Eyed-White (Albino)
• Distinctive: Giant size, wooled, ears tasseled with wool.
• National Club: National Angora Rabbit Breeders Club

 

Angora - Satin

• Senior Weight: 6 ½ - 9 ½ pounds.
• Type: Commercial
• Color: Many. Regardless of color, wool colors are very pale due to dilution of pigment.
• Distinctive: Wool is fine, soft and silky, carrying the sheen of a satinized wool shaft. Sheen is evident over the entire body, including head and ears, which are not heavily wooled.
• National Club: National Angora Rabbit Breeders Club

Argente Brun

• Senior Weight: 7 - 10 pounds.
• Type: Commercial
• Color: Silvered chocolate (brown)
• National Club: American Argente Brun Rabbit Club (Facebook)
  
  

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ALL RABBIT BREEDS: B

Belgian Hare

(Belgian Hare Photo Credit: BelgianHares.org.uk - Thank you)

• Senior Weight: 6 - 9 ½ pounds
• Type: Fully arched
• Color: Brilliant, rich, deep red, of a tan or chestnut shade.
• Distinctive: Arched and racy, hare-like in appearance.
• National Club: Belgian Hare Club

Beveren

• Senior Weight: 8 - 12 pounds
• Type: Mandolin
• Color: Black, blue and white
• Distinctive: Its mandolin shape on a large body suitable for meat production.
• National Club: American Beveren Rabbit Club

Blanc de Hotot

Britannia Petite

• Senior Weight: Maximum weight -
  2 ½ pounds
• Type: Arched
• Color: Black, black otter, chestnut agouti, REW, sable marten
• Distinctive: Tiny arched body
• National Club: American Britannia Petite Rabbit Society
  

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ALL RABBIT BREEDS: C

Californian

• Senior Weight: 8 - 10 ½ pounds
• Type: Commercial
• Color: White, with black at the points (nose, ears, feet and tail).  Eyes are red.
• Distinctive: Himalayan markings in a commercial rabbit
• National Club: Californian Rabbit Specialty Club

 

Champagne D'Argent

• Senior Weight: 9 - 12 pounds
• Type: Commercial
• Color: Bluish white, with interspersed jet black hairs, giving an old silver effect.
• Distinctive: Its color.
• National Club: Champagne d’Argent Rabbit Federation

Checkered Giant

• Senior Weight: 11 - 12 pounds minimum (no maximum weight)
• Type: Arched
• Color: White with black spots and spine stripe; white with blue spots and spine stripe
• Distinctive: Large size, body type and spots.
• National Club: American Checkered Giant Rabbit Club

Chinchilla - American

(American Chinchilla Photo Credit: Hobbit Hole Farm (Oklahoma) - Thank you)

• Senior Weight: 9 - 12 pounds.
• Type: Commercial
• Color: Resembling the chinchilla - black and white banded hair shafts
• Distinctive: Color and size.  This breed is recognized as critically endangered.
• Contact: American Chinchilla Rabbit Breeders Association
  

Chinchilla - Giant

(Giant Chinchilla Photo Credit: Jan Hoadley at Slow Money Farm (AL) - Thank you)

• Senior Weight: 12 - 16 pounds
• Type: Large Commercial
• Color: Resembling the chinchilla - black and white banded hair shafts
• Distinctive: Color and size
• Contact: http://www.giantchinchillarabbit.com/
  
  
  

Chinchilla - Standard

• Senior Weight: 5 - 7 ½ pounds
• Type: Compact
• Color: Resembling the chinchilla - black and white banded hair shafts
• Distinctive: Color and smaller size
• National Club: American Standard Chinchilla Rabbit Breeders Association

 

Cinnamon

• Senior Weight: 8 ½ - 11 pounds.
• Type: Commercial
• Color: Rusty or cinnamon, with uniform smoke gray ticking across the back
• Distinctive: Color
• National Club:  Cinnamon Rabbit Breeders Association

Crème D’Argent

• Senior Weight: 8 - 11 pounds
• Type: Commercial
• Color: Creamy white with a bright orange cast due to orange undercolor
• Distinctive: Color
• National Club: Creme d'Argent Federation  

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ALL RABBIT BREEDS: D

Dutch

• Senior Weight: 3 ½ - 5 ½ pounds
• Type: Compact
• Color: Black, blue, chocolate, gray, steel, chinchilla, tortoiseshell, with specific white markings
• Distinctive: Marking pattern
• National Club: American Dutch Rabbit Club

 

Dwarf Hotot

• Senior Weight: Maximum weight = 3 pounds.
• Type: Compact
• Color: Pure white, except for a uniform band of black around the eyes of the thickness of two pennies on edge.  Eyes are brown.
• Distinctive: Eyebands and dwarf size.
• National Club: American Dwarf Hotot Rabbit Club

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ALL RABBIT BREEDS: E-F

English Spot

• Senior Weight: 5 - 8 pounds
• Type: Arched
• Color: White, with nose butterfly, eye circles, ears, cheek spots, spine and side spots in these colors: black, blue chocolate, gold, gray, lilac, tortoise.
• Distinctive: Carriage and markings
• National Club: American English Spot Rabbit Club

Flemish Giant

(Pictured: Light gray Flemish Giant youngster is over 17 pounds)

• Senior Weight: 13 pounds or more (no maximum)
• Type: Semi-arched
• Color: Black, blue, fawn, light gray (shown), sandy, steel gray, white
• Distinctive: Giant but balanced size.
• National Club: National Federation of Flemish Giant Rabbit Breeders

Florida White

• Senior Weight: 4 - 6 pounds
• Type: Compact.
• Color: Pure white.  Eyes are pink.
• Distinctive: Commercial rabbit in a smaller size.
• National Club: Florida White Rabbit Breeders Association

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ALL RABBIT BREEDS: G-I

Harlequin

• Senior Weight: 6 1/2 - 9 1/2 pounds.
• Type: Commercial
• Color: Black, blue, chocolate and lilac in two groups: Japanese (dark/orange), Magpie (dark/white). One ear black, the other orange. Sides of face, chest and legs alternate colors, and back should have 5 or 6 alternating bands or bars.
• Distinctive: Alternating markings
• National Club: American Harlequin Rabbit Club

Havana

• Senior Weight: 4 ½ - 6 ½ pounds.
• Type: Compact
• Color: Black, blue, chocolate, brokens
• Distinctive: Medium-small, vibrantly colored.
• National Club: Havana Rabbit Breeders Association

Himalayan

• Senior Weight: 2 ½ - 4 ½ pounds
• Type: Cylindrical
• Color: Pointed - Pure white except for the nose, ears, feet and tail, which are black, blue, chocolate or lilac.
• Distinctive: Cylindrical shape
• National Club: American Himalayan Rabbit Association

Holland Lop

• Senior Weight: Not over 4 pounds.
• Type: Compact, with head high
• Color: Agouti, broken, pointed white, self, shaded, tan, ticked, wide band
• Distinctive: Small size and lopped ears.
• National Club: Holland Lop Rabbit Specialty Club

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ALL RABBIT BREEDS: J-L

Jersey Wooly

• Senior Weight: Not over 3 ½ pounds.
• Type: Compact
• Color: Agouti, broken, AOV, self, shaded, tan
• Distinctive: Petite size and 3 inch wool
• National Club: National Jersey Wooly Rabbit Club

Lilac

(The Lilac pictured won Best Reserve in Show at Monroe, WA, on May 1, 2010)

• Senior Weight: 5 ½ - 7 ½ pounds
• Type: Compact
• Color: Lilac (‘dove gray’ with delicate pink tint on surface)
• Distinctive: Color
• National Club: National Lilac Rabbit Club of America

Lionhead

• Senior Weight: 3 3/4 pounds
• Type: Compact
• Color: Red-eyed-white, tortoiseshell (for now)
  
• Distinctive: Pattern of long wool around neck
  
• National Club: North American Lionhead Rabbit Club

Lop - English

• Senior Weight: 9 pounds and over (no maximum weight)
• Type: Semi-arched
• Color: Agouti, broken, self, shaded, ticked, wide band
• Distinctive: Enormous lopped ears
• National Club: Lop Rabbit Club of America

 

Lop - French

• Senior Weight: 10 ½ pounds and over (no maximum weight)
• Type: Commercial, massive
• Color: Agouti, broken, self, shaded, ticked, wide band
• Distinctive: Massive size, lopped ears
• National Club: Lop Rabbit Club of America

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ALL RABBIT BREEDS: M

Mini Lop

• Senior Weight: 4 ½ - 6 ½ pounds
• Type: Compact
  
• Color: Agouti, broken, pointed white, self, shaded, ticked, wide band
• Distinctive: Lopped ears, compact yet massive in effect
• National Club: Mini Lop Rabbit Club of America

Mini Rex

• Senior Weight: 3 - 4 ½ pounds
• Type: Commercial type in a little body
• Color: Black, blue, blue-eyed white, broken, castor, chinchilla, chocolate, Himalayan, lilac, lynx, opal red, seal, tortoise, red-eyed white
• Distinctive: Rex fur on petite body
• National Club: National Mini Rex Rabbit Club

 

Mini Satin

• Senior Weight: 3 1/4 - 4 3/4 pounds
• Type: Commercial in petite package
• Color: Ruby-eyed white, chinchilla, opal, red, black, chocolate, otter, siamese
• Distinctive: Satin fur
• National Club: American Satin Rabbit Breeders Association

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ALL RABBIT BREEDS: N

Netherland Dwarf

• Senior Weight: Not over 2 ½ pounds
• Type: CompactColor: Agouti, self, shaded, tan pattern, any other varieties
• Distinctive: Tiny round size, short ears, many color varieties
• National Club: American Netherland Dwarf Rabbit Club
  

New Zealand

(New Zealand Rabbit photo credit: Silverwolf Rabbitry, WA - thank you)

• Senior Weight: 9 - 12 pounds
• Type: Commercial
• Color: White, black, red, broken
• Distinctive: Commercial meat rabbit
• National Club: American Federation of New Zealand Rabbit Breeders
  
  
  

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ALL RABBIT BREEDS: O-P

Palomino

• Senior Weight: 8 - 11 pounds
• Type: Commercial
• Color: Golden, lynx
• Distinctive: Color
• National Club: Palomino Rabbit Co-Breeders Association

Polish

• Senior Weight: Not over 3 ½ pounds
• Type: Compact
• Color: Black, blue, broken, chocolate, blue-eyed white, ruby-eyed white
• Distinctive: Petite size
• National Club: American Polish Rabbit Club

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ALL RABBIT BREEDS: R-S

Rex

• Senior Weight: 7 ½ - 10 ½ pounds
• Type: Commercial
• Color: Amber, black, blue, broken, Californian, castor, chinchilla, chocolate, lilac, lynx, opal, otter, red, sable, seal, white (REW)
  
• Distinctive: Rex fur
• National Club: National Rex Rabbit Club

Rhinelander

• Senior Weight: 6 ½ - 10 pounds
• Type: Arched
• Color: White with evenly distributed black and orange markings on nose, eye circles, cheek spot, ears, spine, side spot and tail
• Distinctive: Tri coloration, markings
• National Club: Rhinelander Rabbit Club of America

 

Satin

• Senior Weight: 8 ½ - 11 pounds
• Type: Commercial
• Color: Black, blue broken, Californian, chinchilla, chocolate, copper, otter, red, Siamese, white
• Distinctive: Satinized hair shafts - finer diameter and a more transparent hair shell resulting in brilliant colors and enhanced sheen.
• National Club: American Satin Rabbit Breeders Association

Silver

(Silver Rabbit photo credit: Silverwolf Rabbitry, WA - thank you)

• Senior Weight: 4 - 7 pounds
• Type: Slight mandolin
• Color: Black, brown, fawn
• Distinctive: Even silvering over entire rabbit due to silver-white hairs and hair-tips; considered a ‘rare’ breed
• National Club: National Silver Rabbit Club

Silver Fox

• Senior Weight: 9 - 12 pounds
• Type: Commercial
• Color: Black which is ‘silvered’ (other varieties in development)
• Distinctive: Long, evenly silvered fur, and is a meat breed.  Silver Fox breed is recognized as critically endangered.
• National Club: National Silver Fox Rabbit Club

Silver Marten

• Senior Weight: 6 - 9 ½ pounds
• Type: Lighter commercial
• Color: Black, blue, chocolate, sable, in a tan pattern (‘tan’ areas are white in this breed)
• Distinctive: Black and silver coloration, long silvery guard hairs evenly distributed up sides of rabbit
• National Club: Silver Marten Rabbit Club

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ALL RABBIT BREEDS: T-Z

Tan

• Senior Weight: 4 - 6 pounds
• Type: Arched
• Color: Black, blue, chocolate and lilac, with fiery tan triangle, chest and belly
• Distinctive: Rich fiery tan and lustrous top colors
• National Club: American Tan Rabbit Specialty Club

Thrianta

• Pronounced "Tree-AHNta"
• Senior Weight: 4-6 pounds
• Type: Compact
• Color: A fiery, brilliant red with dark brown eyes.  The belly is a slightly lighter shade of red.
• Distinctive: Its amazing, fiery red color.
• National Club: American Thrianta Rabbit Breeders Association

Two additional breeds are found in the USA, though not recognized by the ARBA.

Click on their breed titles to learn more about these breeds:

Altex, a terminal sire commercial meat breed

German Angora, a commercial wool breed recognized by the International Association of German Angora Rabbit Breeders (IAGARB).

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