Tennessee
Cherished Holland Lops for Sale in Tennessee
Blue-eyed Holland Lops for sale in Tennessee, snowy Blue-Eyed Whites and blue-eyed kits in a whole range of Vienna colors, raised in Oklahoma and settling in from the Mississippi to the Smokies.
Rhythm & Bleu is an American Rabbit Breeders Association (ARBA) registered rabbitry in Northeast Oklahoma near Tulsa. We raise Blue-Eyed Whites and blue-eyed Vienna-marked kits in colorful coats, and a full pedigree travels with every kit.
Every kit is handled from birth, every day, in the middle of a busy home that is never quiet, the vacuum, the dishes, a toddler mid-tantrum, so they leave as sweet as a rabbit can be. Tennessee families bring one home by ground or by air, and pickup here is always free.
Holland Lops for Sale in Tennessee, and What Makes Ours Different
Blue eyes are the piece that cannot be rushed.
They come from the Vienna gene, which is recessive. Both parents have to carry it, only a share of any litter shows it, and reaching that point takes years of well-planned pairings.
Our Holland Lops for sale in Tennessee carry pedigrees, and are babied all day long. We breed for temperament first, then type, then color.
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Getting home
Three ways home to Tennessee
Interstate 40 leaves Oklahoma and does not stop until it has crossed your whole state, which makes this one of the simplest deliveries we offer. Three ways home, and the first one is free.
Meet in person
always on the table
Memphis sits about six hours from our door, nearly all of it on I-40. Plenty of families turn pickup into a weekend, meet their bunny at our home, and let it ride back to Tennessee in a lap.
Pickup and meetups cost nothing but a day on the road.
Ground transport
starting rate, by route
Transporters follow I-40 across to Memphis, Nashville, and on to Knoxville, one highway nearly door to door.
West and Middle Tennessee connect most directly; the far eastern mountains take a bit longer. Transporters keep fixed calendars, and the unpredictable part is simply when a trip will pass near your town. Rates start at $125. Booking the transporter is yours to arrange, so the trip stays in your hands. If you’d ever like a name to start from, just ask.
Door-to-door flight
every detail handled
Prefer a set date? We coordinate the flight and handle the details, so all you do is meet the plane, in Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville, or Chattanooga.
The $650 covers everything: cargo ticket, airline-approved carrier, food and water for the trip, and the health certificate. Airlines open cargo booking about two weeks ahead.
The paperwork
What Tennessee requires
Tennessee asks for one document: a Certificate of Veterinary Inspection (CVI), issued by an accredited veterinarian within 30 days of entry. The rule covers all animals coming into the state, rabbits included. No permit, no testing.
Book one vet visit before travel and you are done, or:
Does all that feel a little overwhelming? No worries. Let us take care of the details for you. We’ll book the appointment and get the paperwork lined up and in order for $100.
Oklahoma has never recorded a case of rabbit hemorrhagic disease. Tennessee keeps a careful watch on RHDV2 at its borders, and a kit from our rabbitry sails right past that concern, clean ground from its very first day. If your rabbit flies, the certificate is already inside the $650.
The rules in the state’s own words live on the Tennessee Department of Agriculture’s import requirements page, whenever you feel like a look.
Worth knowing
What Tennessee families ask us
Does my rabbit need a health certificate?
Yes, Tennessee requires a CVI for every rabbit entering the state, dated within 30 days of travel. Flying? It is included in the $650. Ground or pickup? Book your own vet visit, or hand the errand to us for $100.
How long does ground transport take?
Once your kit is aboard, figure roughly a day of road for Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, or Chattanooga and a little more for East Tennessee. The bigger variable is the driver’s route and when it passes near you, and the booking stays entirely in your hands. If you’d like a name or two, just ask.
Could we just come get our bunny ourselves?
Please do, families make the trip more often than you would guess. Pickup in person costs nothing but the drive, I-40 makes it a straight shot, and your kit rides home in your own arms.
Find your people
Clubs and shows in Tennessee
Near you
Local Clubs & 4-H
Tennessee’s county fair culture keeps 4-H rabbit projects busy in all three Grand Divisions, and a local all-breed club is the fastest road to a show table and a mentor.
The breed
Holland Lop Specialty Club
The Holland Lop Rabbit Specialty Club is the breed’s national home for standards, sweepstakes, and a wealth of learning on type and color, well worth the youth or adult membership.
The directory
ARBA Club Search
ARBA keeps the running list of sanctioned clubs and shows across Tennessee, searchable by state, the reliable way to find what is meeting near you this season.
Shows and fairs worth a visit
County fairs from Memphis to Mountain City fill their rabbit barns every summer, and the state fair tradition each year makes a wonderful first show day for a new rabbit family.
For current sanctioned shows, the ARBA club search stays up to date.
The ups and downs
Owning a Holland Lop in Tennessee
Tennessee puts three stars on its flag for its three Grand Divisions, and a Holland Lop can be perfectly happy under any of them.
Winters here are short and mild, easy country for an animal in a permanent wool coat, and the vet bench is anchored by a first-rate teaching hospital in Knoxville. Add the fair-and-4-H culture, and this is a fine rabbit state.
The catch is the stretch from June to September. Southern humidity makes an 88 degree afternoon feel far hotter to a rabbit than the thermometer admits.
The whole concern disappears indoors. An air-conditioned Tennessee living room is a perfect rabbit habitat twelve months a year, July included, and a lop in the room with you is better company than television than television anyway.
Rabbit-savvy care
Finding a good vet in Tennessee
A rabbit does best with a veterinarian who treats rabbits routinely, and Tennessee’s bench runs deeper than most of the South’s.
Knoxville
UT Veterinary Medical Center
The University of Tennessee’s teaching hospital houses a dedicated exotic animal and zoological medicine hospital with board-certified specialists, one of only two U.S. veterinary colleges with an approved program in both avian and exotic companion mammal medicine. Rabbits are named right on the service page.
Nashville
Avian + Exotics Center of Nashville
The only veterinary facility in Middle Tennessee serving an exclusively avian and exotic clientele, with rabbits high on the patient list and no barking waiting room to rattle a prey animal.
Memphis & everywhere else
Two quick questions
Call any clinic and ask a pair of things. Do they treat rabbits on a regular basis, and would they take on a rabbit spay or neuter. Two easy yeses and you have found your practice.
One more resource
The House Rabbit Society keeps a statewide vet directory at houserabbit.org, and the county 4-H rabbit leader always knows which local clinic the show families trust.
Keeping cool
Caring for a Holland Lop through a Tennessee summer
Any page offering Holland Lops for sale in Tennessee owes you a straight word about August. This is a humid state from the river bottoms to the foothills, and while the mountains run a touch cooler, every corner of Tennessee serves up a long, sticky summer. That season, and only that season, is where a rabbit needs your attention. The other nine months take care of themselves.
A handful of summer habits keeps a Tennessee lop comfortable clear through to sweater weather.
- Read the heat index instead of the temperature, because thick, humid air keeps a rabbit from cooling itself the way a dry day allows.
- Keep two frozen water bottles in rotation through the hot months and set one where the bunny can stretch out against it.
- Give the setup a spot away from west-facing windows, where afternoon sun can turn a corner of the room into a greenhouse.
- Let a fan move air near the space without blowing straight at the rabbit around the clock.
- Expect a heavy coat blow as fall arrives and the summer fur makes way, and keep the brush somewhere handy.
For deeper reading, University of Tennessee Extension publishes dependable small-animal guidance, and rabbit.org is the everyday reference we hand to every new family.
A little Tennessee history
The state that taught the world the blues
In 1912, a Memphis bandleader named W.C. Handy published a song called “The Memphis Blues,” and Beale Street grew into the front porch of a whole new American music. The sound born there rippled outward into soul, rock and roll, and the rhythm and blues half the world still hums, which is why Memphis wears the title Home of the Blues to this day.
We named our rabbitry Rhythm & Bleu, so you can imagine how we feel about this state. The blues we raise are quieter, a clear, storybook blue gazing up from a bundle of snow-white or harlequin fur, but they stop people mid-sentence just the same. Sending our Holland Lops for sale in Tennessee down I-40 feels, to us, a little like sending the blues back home.
Hoping for a blue-eyed baby of your own?
