Colorado
Gorgeous Holland Lops for Sale in Colorado
Blue-eyed Holland Lops for sale in Colorado, flown or driven right to you.
Howdy! We’re a small rabbitry just outside Tulsa, Oklahoma, and we’d be tickled to help YOU welcome home your new best friend.
Colorado is a bit of a haul from us, so most of our Colorado rabbits fly or ride out with a transporter. The happy news is the price is better than folks expect. Ground starts at $125, and the air cargo price is $650.
We’re Rhythm & Bleu, and we raise Blue-Eyed White and Vienna-marked Holland Lops that find homes clear across Colorado. We’re an American Rabbit Breeders Association (ARBA) registered rabbitry.
Whether your bun rides the highway home or catches a flight, we’re here to make it easy for you.
Here is why people come to us
Holland Lops for Sale in Colorado, and What Sets Ours Apart
We handle our baby bunnies every single day from the day they are born. They are used to the hum of a vacuum and the hustle and bustle of busy family life. We breed for temperament, type and blue eyes. Our whole program is built around making sure you get to meet the sweetest bunny ever.
What’s more, blue eyed white Holland Lops and Vienna Holland lops for sale in Colorado are just rare.
The gene for it is recessive, so both parents have to carry it, and even then only a portion of each litter turns up with those vivid blue eyes. It takes years of intentional 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.
Current Kits for Sale
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Getting a rabbit to Colorado
Two ways home
Colorado is far enough that it comes down to ground or air. Here’s how each one works.
Ground transport
From, varies by route
Ground transport is the budget-friendly way to bring Holland Lops for Sale in Colorado home.
A driver rolls west out of the Tulsa area, climbs US-412 across the Oklahoma Panhandle, past Woodward and Guymon and Boise City, before crossing into Colorado’s eastern plains and on toward the Front Range. Denver, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, Pueblo, they all sit at the far end of a roughly 650-mile haul.
Drivers set their own calendars, so it takes a little doing to figure out which run will work for your location and schedule. So we can help steer you to the right transporter. Just for clarity’s sake, it is your responsibility to arrange your transporter. But we’ve booked our fair share of transporters so we can help make it easy for you.
Ground can take up to a couple of weeks from pickup, often shorter. Your bun rides climate-controlled as one stop on a bigger loop, and sharing that loop is what keeps the fare price low.
We tuck in plenty of hay and pellets for the road, and since all our stock is pedigreed, your rabbit’s pedigree travels right with.
Air transport
About a day
For a state as far as Colorado, air can be the kinder choice. It swaps a two-week wait for a single day, which is a lot easier on a little rabbit. The price covers the cargo ticket, an airline-approved carrier, food and water for the flight, and the health certificate and acclimation statement the airline requires.
One thing to know: airlines book their cargo flights about two weeks out, so if you’re leaning toward air, it pays to decide early so we can lock in the date.
Air costs more, but for a haul like Colorado it earns it, and Colorado is spoiled for choice. We fly into Denver, Colorado Springs, Grand Junction, Durango, Montrose/Telluride, Gunnison/Crested Butte, Eagle/Vail, and Hayden, so whether you are on the Front Range, the Western Slope, or up in the ski towns, one of them is close. Routes do shift from time to time, so we confirm your airport together when you book.
And unlike ground, where you book the transporter yourself, air is one line item we take right off your to-do list, because we make the arrangements.
Frequently Asked Questions
What Colorado requires
Any small animal entering Colorado, rabbits included, travels with a Certificate of Veterinary Inspection, a health certificate signed by an accredited vet and dated within 30 days of arrival.
If you’d rather arrange the certificate yourself, it’s very doable. Before pick-up you’d book your rabbit with a USDA-accredited vet, get the exam done inside that 30-day window, and keep the paperwork with your bun for the trip.
Does all that feel a little overwhelming? No worries. Let us take care of the details for you. We’ll book the vet appointment, have your bun seen and get everything lined up and in order for $100.
And if your rabbit is flying, the airline requires the certificate anyway, so it’s already folded into that air shipping price.
You can read more on the Colorado Department of Agriculture small-animal import page.
Colorado
Questions we get
Do I need a health certificate to bring a rabbit into Colorado?
Colorado asks for one on any rabbit entering the state, dated within 30 days. You’re welcome to set it up yourself, or we’ll handle the whole thing, the appointment and the paperwork, for $100. If your rabbit flies, the airline requires it and it’s already included in the air price.
How long does ground transport take to Colorado?
Figure up to a couple of weeks from pickup, depending on where you land on the transporter’s route. We’ll help you book it and get you a date once it’s set.
Is air worth it to Colorado?
For a haul this long, honestly, often yes. Air brings your bun home in about a day instead of a couple of weeks on the road, which is not as hard on them. We fly into Denver, Colorado Springs, Grand Junction, Durango, Montrose/Telluride, Gunnison/Crested Butte, Eagle/Vail, and Hayden, so tell us your town and we’ll tell you the shortest drive. Ground still saves you money if you’re patient.
Can I come pick the rabbit up in person?
You sure can. If you want to make a roadtrip out of it and meet us in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, who are we to stop you! You are always welcome!
I don’t know rabbit breeds, I just want a good pet. Where do I begin?
Howdy, and you’re in good hands! Loads of folks typing “rabbits for sale in Colorado” or “bunnies for sale” aren’t breed people yet, and there’s no shame in that. Holland Lops are about the friendliest starter bunny going: pint-sized, floppy-eared, mellow, and easy with kids. Want a gentle pet and don’t care about the fancy names? That’s exactly us.
Community
Rabbit clubs in Colorado
Colorado has a lively rabbit scene, which is one of the joys of the state. No matter where you got your Holland lops for sale in Colorado, a local club is the quickest way to learn, meet breeders, and see rabbits up close, pet or show.
Front Range
Pike’s Peak Rabbit Breeders Association
Colorado Springs and Pueblo, with sanctioned shows at the Colorado State Fairgrounds.
Show circuit
Rocky Mountain High Shows
A hub for Colorado’s sanctioned show schedule, run alongside the local clubs.
Find a local club
ARBA Club Search
Filter by Colorado for every chartered local and youth club, with contacts.
Colorado and Oklahoma sit together in ARBA District 4, alongside Arkansas, New Mexico, and Texas, so we share a show circuit and often cross paths at the same events.
The honest ups and downs
Owning a Holland Lop in Colorado
Colorado gives rabbit keepers plenty to love and a few things to plan around.
The love-list first. The Front Range’s dry air means the muggy heat that endangers rabbits back east barely exists here, and that’s the single biggest weather risk this breed faces anywhere. Colorado also has some of the best exotic veterinary access on our whole map, with a genuine exotic-animal hospital in Denver and a world-class teaching hospital an hour north. And this is a state that takes its animals seriously, so bringing home one of our Holland Lops for sale in Colorado puts you among people who get it.
The plan-around list is mostly written by altitude. The high-country sun is fierce, day and night temperatures can swing thirty degrees, and the dry air pulls moisture out of a rabbit faster than new owners expect. And if you’re up in the mountain towns, the nearest rabbit-savvy vet may be a real drive down the hill, so line one up before you ever need one.
The tidy answer to the sun, the swings, and the dry air all at once: a Colorado Holland does beautifully as an indoor rabbit, close to the family it adores and to the water bowl it needs.
Line one up early
Rabbit-savvy vets in Colorado
Rabbits count as exotic pets, so an ordinary dog-and-cat clinic often can’t treat them. Choosing your rabbit’s vet before you ever need one is one of the smartest first moves a new owner makes, and Colorado makes that easier than most states.
A quick, honest note: each practice below sees rabbits and is well established in its community. Every clinic is its own place, though, so give them a call to confirm they’re taking new bunny patients and trust your own read on whether the fit feels right for you and your rabbit.
Denver
Colorado Exotic Animal Hospital
A hospital devoted entirely to exotic pets, with rabbits and small mammals right at the top of their list. A rare thing to have in your own city.
Fort Collins
CSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital
Colorado State’s avian and exotics service offers board-certified specialists who see rabbits, the region’s heavyweight for anything complex.
Colorado Springs
Cheyenne Mountain Animal Hospital
An exotic pet veterinarian on staff serving the Springs area. Exotic appointments are booked by phone, so call ahead.
More help finding a vet
The House Rabbit Society keeps state-by-state rabbit-vet listings for Colorado, and your county’s 4-H rabbit leader is often the best-informed person around about which local vet truly sees rabbits.
Read this before you set up
Holland Lops at Colorado altitude
Colorado hands a rabbit a different set of challenges than the states to the east, and it’s worth planning for before your bun arrives. The big one isn’t heat, it’s the thin, dry mountain air.
High altitude means low humidity, and low humidity means a rabbit dries out faster than you’d think. Water is everything here. A Holland Lop can go through more than you expect, especially in the arid Front Range and the high country, so a full, clean water source at all times is an absolute necessity.
- Fresh water at all hours, and more of it than the humidity fools you into thinking. Dry air pulls moisture out of everyone, buns included.
- Colorado sun is intense at elevation. Shade that actually blocks the afternoon glare matters more here than the raw temperature does.
- Nights drop fast in the mountains and on the plains. A Holland Lop’s coat handles the cold well, but keep the hutch out of the wind.
- Watch for dry, flaky skin or a dull coat, both hints your rabbit could use a touch more water to drink.
The eastern plains run hot and windy in summer while the high country stays cool, so where you live shapes the routine. Wherever you are, water and shade are the two things Holland Lops for sale in Colorado can’t do without.
More on rabbit care from the House Rabbit Society, and Colorado State University Extension keeps small-animal resources with agents across the state.
A little Colorado history
The rabbit cousin that farms the high country
Here’s a piece of Colorado that rabbit lovers should know: high in your mountains lives the hardest-working member of the entire rabbit family.
The American pika is a small, round-eared cousin of the rabbit, and it makes its home in the rockslides above ten thousand feet, higher than almost any of its relatives on Earth. Hikers on Colorado’s peaks know it by its squeak, a sharp little “meep” bouncing off the talus. And unlike nearly everything else at that elevation, the pika doesn’t hibernate. It farms.
All summer long, a pika cuts wildflowers and grasses, lays them out on the rocks to cure in the sun, and stacks the finished product into haypiles tucked under the boulders. That homemade hay is what carries it through eight months of alpine winter. A creature the size of a potato, running a one-animal hay operation at twelve thousand feet.
We love that Colorado’s wild rabbit cousin is a hay farmer, because hay is the heart of a domestic rabbit’s diet too. Your Holland Lop will spend its days working through a pile of timothy just like its high-country relative, only from the comfort of your living room, with the heating already handled.
A rare blue-eyed Holland would be proud to join a family with relatives like that.
Up top, the rabbit family makes its own hay. Yours will simply enjoy it.
