Vermont
Merry Holland Lops for Sale in Vermont
Rare Blue-Eyed Whites and blue-eyed Vienna-marked Holland Lops for sale in Vermont, from Bennington up to the Northeast Kingdom.
A small lop-eared rabbit, snow white or deep in color, looking up at you with clear blue eyes. That is what we raise.
Rhythm & Bleu is an American Rabbit Breeders Association (ARBA) registered rabbitry in Northeast Oklahoma near Tulsa, raising Blue-Eyed Whites and blue-eyed Vienna-marked kits in colorful coats. A full pedigree travels with every kit.
Ours are handled every day from birth in the thick of family life, used to the vacuum, the dishes, doors, and a toddler mid-tantrum, so they leave as sociable and sweet as a rabbit can be. Vermont families bring one home by ground or by air, and pickup here is always free.
Why the eyes
Holland Lops for Sale in Vermont, and What Makes Ours Different
Blue eyes are the part that takes years.
They come from the Vienna gene, which is recessive, so both parents have to carry it before a single kit can show it. Only a share of any litter does, and getting there means one patient pairing after another.
Our Holland Lops for sale in Vermont are pedigreed, brought up in the middle of everything this household does, and given constant attention from the start. We breed for temperament first, then type, then color.
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Getting home
Three ways home to Vermont
Three ways to bring one of our Holland Lops for sale in Vermont home, and the first one is free.
Meet in person
always open
Pickup at our home costs nothing but the miles. It is a proper expedition from Vermont, but folks do it, and Old Route 66 runs practically past our door if you want to make a holiday of the drive.
You meet your bunny, ask everything face to face, and she rides home in somebody’s lap.
Ground transport
from, route by route
Drivers running this far northeast reach Brattleboro, White River Junction, Montpelier, and Burlington.
The I-89 and I-91 towns connect most readily. The Northeast Kingdom asks real patience. Transporters keep fixed calendars, and the wait is for one of their planned trips to come this far northeast at all. Rates open at $125. Booking the transporter is yours to arrange, so the trip stays in your hands. If you would ever like help finding one, just ask.
Door-to-door flight
we handle the booking
Air turns that very long journey into one calm morning. Vermont keeps no cargo airport of its own, so your kit lands just over the line, and for most of the state that is barely a detour.
We fly into Albany, Manchester, and Boston, and we set up the flight and handle the arrangements. Albany is the natural choice down the western side, an easy hour from Bennington and well under two from Rutland. Manchester suits the Connecticut River valley and the east. Routes do shift from time to time, so we confirm your airport together when you book.
The $650 covers everything, cargo ticket, airline-approved carrier, food and water, and the health certificate with its acclimation statement. Airlines open cargo booking about two weeks ahead, so leave yourself a little runway.
The paperwork
What Vermont requires
Nothing at all. Vermont spells out exactly which animals its import rules cover, and the list runs to cattle, sheep, goats, horses, swine, camelids, deer, bison, poultry, parrots, ferrets, ostriches, and water buffalo. Rabbits are not on it.
The state’s separate health certificate rule for pets applies to dogs, cats, ferrets, and wolf-hybrids. A rabbit comes home to you with no forms, no permit, and nothing to wait on.
Would you like a health certificate anyway, purely for your own records? Happy to arrange it. We’ll book the appointment and get everything lined up and in order for $100.
If your kit flies, the airline asks for a certificate regardless, and that one is already folded into the $650.
Vermont publishes its rules through the Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets, and its Animal Health office answers questions at 802-828-2421.
Worth knowing
Questions we hear from Vermont
What are you promising us?
Your kit goes home thriving, well socialized, and handled every day since her first week. She comes with a 72-hour health guarantee.
It is all set down plainly on our sales policy page.
Do blue eyes bring health trouble?
Not a bit. Vienna is a color gene and color is the whole of its work, the coat and the eyes, and the rabbit underneath is as sound as any Holland on a show table.
Our Holland Lops for sale in Vermont are pedigreed and handled every day from birth, so they leave here as sociable and sweet as a rabbit can be.
There is no airport in Vermont. Now what?
She lands just over the line and you collect her there. Albany, Manchester, and Boston all take our flights, and Albany in particular is closer to much of western Vermont than Burlington is.
Tell us your town and we will work out the shortest drive with you before anything is booked.
Does my rabbit need paperwork for Vermont?
No. Vermont’s import rules name the species they cover and rabbits are not among them, so there is nothing to file.
Flying? The airline wants a certificate regardless, and it is already inside the $650. For ground or pickup, we can arrange one for $100 if you would simply rather have it in hand.
How long does ground transport take?
It depends where you sit on the driver’s route, since the schedule gets built around the whole load.
The Northeast Kingdom can take longer, which is why many Vermont families choose air. The driver’s route decides the timing, and the booking stays in your hands. If you would ever like help finding one, just ask.
Find your people
Clubs and shows in Vermont
A lop is an easy way into a warm circle of breeders, show families, and 4-H kids. Here is where to start looking.
Near you
Local Clubs & 4-H
Vermont’s fair and 4-H tradition is woven right through the farming year, and a local all-breed club is the fastest road to a mentor, a show table, and someone who will pick up the phone when you have a question.
The breed
Holland Lop Specialty Club
The Holland Lop Rabbit Specialty Club is the breed’s national home, the place for standards, sweepstakes, and everything worth knowing about type and color in these little lops.
The district
ARBA District 7
Vermont shows in ARBA District 7 with New York and the rest of New England. It is a small district on the map, so even from the Kingdom a sanctioned show is usually a manageable drive.
Shows and fairs worth a visit
Vermont’s fair season runs from midsummer into September, from the Champlain Valley Fair down to Tunbridge, and the small-animal barns are a fine place to spend an afternoon talking rabbits with people who keep them.
For sanctioned rabbit shows near you, the ARBA club search keeps the current list.
The ups and downs
Owning a Holland Lop in Vermont
Vermont may be the easiest climate in the nation for a rabbit, and the state’s whole way of living suits one besides.
Dangerous heat is rare here. The single thing that worries rabbit keepers everywhere else barely registers, and a lop in a Vermont house spends most of the year perfectly comfortable.
The catch is distance. This is a rural state with no large city, and a rabbit-savvy vet may be a real drive, particularly from the Kingdom or the far southwest.
So you sort it out early. Find your vet before she arrives, keep a couple of weeks of hay on hand for storm season, and Vermont becomes about the loveliest place a rabbit could live.
Rabbit-savvy care
Finding a good vet in Vermont
A rabbit needs a veterinarian who sees rabbits often, and in a state this rural that is worth settling before she ever arrives.
Worth saying plainly: Oklahoma is a long way from the Green Mountains, and I have not been inside any of these clinics myself. Call ahead, check they’re taking new rabbit patients, and make sure the fit feels right.
When it’s serious
Burlington Emergency & Veterinary Specialists
Vermont’s only board-certified exotic specialist practices here, at the state’s 24/7 emergency hospital in Williston. Routine rabbit visits are by appointment with no referral, and the ER is open around the clock for the day something goes sideways.
Rutland & the south
Eastwood Animal Clinic
A full-service small-animal and exotic-pet hospital that has looked after Rutland’s pets since 1968, and the handiest rabbit-savvy option for central and southern Vermont.
The Champlain Valley
Essex Veterinary Center
In Essex Junction, this clinic treats rabbits, guinea pigs, ferrets, and other small mammals right alongside cats and dogs, a well-regarded everyday choice for the Burlington side of the state.
One more resource
Not near any of the three? The House Rabbit Society keeps a vet directory that reaches into Vermont, maintained by people who take their own rabbits to the clinics they list. Your county 4-H rabbit leader is worth an ask too, since they always know which vet the show families call first.
Seasonal care
Caring for a Holland Lop through a Vermont year
Winter is long here and summer is short and glorious, but the season that actually asks something of you is the one in between. Our Holland Lops for sale in Vermont come through all of it comfortably with a few small habits in place.
A handful of steady habits carries a bunny comfortably right around the calendar.
- Sugaring weather swings hard, freezing overnight and thawing by afternoon, so keep her indoor spot steady rather than letting it follow the outside temperature up and down.
- Wood heat dries a room out faster than most people notice, so keep her pen well back from the stove and check her water has not quietly vanished.
- Ice storms take the power out here more than snow does, so keep warm blankets, spare water, and a couple of weeks of hay set aside.
- A heavy ceramic crock holds off freezing longer than a bottle and thaws easily at the sink when it finally gives in.
- When the short green season arrives, introduce fresh greens slowly, a little at a time, rather than all at once from the garden.
For deeper reading, UVM Extension publishes dependable small-animal and 4-H guidance, and rabbit.org is the friendly reference we hand to every new rabbit family.
A little Vermont history
The hare that isn’t a rabbit
Vermont’s woods are full of snowshoe hares, and the state’s own wildlife people are firm about this: a hare is not a rabbit. Vermonters have long called it the varying hare, because it changes from brown to white as the snow arrives.
The giveaway is not the enormous back feet, though those are hard to miss. It is how the young turn up. A hare is born above ground, fully furred, eyes already open, ready for the world within hours. A rabbit is born in a den, blind and naked and entirely helpless, and its eyes do not open for days.
That difference is the whole shape of our week here. Our kits arrive in a nest box, blind and small enough to hold in one hand, and we handle them from the first days so that the world smells like people before it looks like anything. Then the eyes open, and with our Holland Lops for sale in Vermont, what opens is blue.
Hoping one of these precious little ones grows up to be yours?
