The Blue-Eyed White is one of the most difficult colors in the whole breed to produce. The gene is recessive, so both parents have to carry it, and even then much of the litter won’t show it.

A rabbit with the snow-white coat and deep blue eyes takes seasons of careful pairing.

It isn’t only the snow-white ones, either. That same Vienna gene brings the blue eyes to colorful coats too, blue, chocolate, harlequin, so most of our kits go home blue-eyed but not solid white. The blue is the rare part either way.

Every bunny we breed leaves here with a pedigree. We breed for temperament just as much as type and a HUGE part of our program is daily handling of each and every kit to ensure the most sociable temperaments in the industry.

Your state has one of the stricter rabbit-import rules in the country, so holland lops for sale in Missouri have to play by these rules too. The great thing is, it works entirely in your favor when you buy from us. Here’s why.

Missouri only requires a Certificate of Veterinary Inspection for rabbits coming from a state where Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease has been diagnosed in the previous twelve months. RHD is a devastating rabbit illness, and Missouri built the rule to keep it out. Rabbits arriving from an affected state need an entry permit plus a CVI certifying a 72-hour pre-shipment exam, no new rabbits onto the premises for 30 days, and no contact with wild rabbits.

Oklahoma has never had a confirmed case of Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease. That means your rabbit isn’t coming from an affected state, and none of that permit-and-exam machinery applies to a Holland Lop traveling from our home to yours.

You can read the rules on the Missouri Department of Agriculture, Animal Health Division page.

Here’s a Missouri story most Missourians only know half of: before the mouse, there was a rabbit.

In 1906 a four-year-old boy named Walt Disney moved with his family to a farm outside Marceline. He spent four years there, and they were the years that made him. He learned to draw on that farm, sketching the animals around him, and he said later that more of importance happened to him in Marceline than in all the years that followed. When the farm failed, the family moved to Kansas City, and it was there, in a little studio called Laugh-O-Gram, that a young man from Missouri first taught himself to make drawings move.

He went west, and in 1927 he and his best animator finally created a character with real personality, a star. Not a mouse. A rabbit, named Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, and audiences adored him.

Then came the meeting that changed everything. The studio, not Disney, held the rights to Oswald, and he lost the rabbit and most of his animators in one afternoon. On the long train ride home, he took out a sketch pad and drew something new: a mouse with rounder ears and a thin tail.

So the whole thing, the mouse, the castle, all of it, started with a rabbit, drawn by a boy who learned to love animals on a Missouri farm. We think that’s worth remembering when a Holland Lop shows up at your door with those big blue eyes. Rabbits have a way of starting things.