Delaware
Adorable Holland Lops for Sale in Delaware
Blue-eyed Holland Lops for sale in Delaware, rare snowy Blue-Eyed Whites and blue-eyed Vienna-marked kits in colorful coats, sent home anywhere from Wilmington to the Sussex beaches.
A tiny lop with a squashed-sweet face, soft folded ears, and eyes of clear, unmistakable blue. That is what we raise.
Rhythm & Bleu is an ARBA registered rabbitry in Northeast Oklahoma near Tulsa. We raise the rare Blue-Eyed Whites and the blue-eyed Vienna-marked kits in colorful coats, blue, chocolate, harlequin, sometimes finished with a bright white blaze. A full pedigree travels with every kit.
Our kits are handled every day from birth, right in the thick of family life, noise and all, so they leave here as sweet-tempered and sociable as a rabbit can be. Delaware families bring one home by road or by air, and pickup at our door is always free.
Holland Lops for Sale in Delaware, and What Sets Ours Apart
The blue eyes are the rare part.
Blue eyes in a Holland Lop come from the Vienna gene. It is recessive, so both parents have to carry it, and even then only a share of any litter arrives with it. Getting there takes years of patient pairings.
Our Holland Lops for sale in Delaware are pedigreed, raised right in the middle of a busy household, and treasured from their very first day. We breed for temperament first, then type, then color.
Current Kits for Sale
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Getting home
Two ways home to Delaware
Delaware sits a good way east of us, so our Holland Lops for sale in Delaware travel home by road or by air. Both are simple on your end, and free pickup stays open for anyone who wants the drive.
Ground transport
from, route by route
Once a run reaches Wilmington, the whole state is close: US-13 and DE-1 carry south through Dover to Milford, Georgetown, and the beaches.
Rates open at $125. Booking the run is yours to arrange, so it stays in your hands, and if you would ever like help finding a driver, just ask and we will point you to the ones we trust. The only real wait is for one of their planned trips to pass near your town.
Door-to-door flight
we handle the booking
We set up the flight and handle the arrangements. Delaware has no cargo airport of its own, so your bunny flies into Philadelphia, Baltimore, or Salisbury, whichever is closest to you. Philadelphia is barely half an hour from Wilmington, and Salisbury sits right beside Sussex County, so the beaches are covered too. Routes do shift from time to time, so we confirm your airport together when you book, roughly half an hour up I-95 from Wilmington. Southern Delaware families sometimes prefer Baltimore instead. Either way it is one travel day, and your only errand is the cargo counter.
The $650 covers everything, cargo ticket, an airline-approved carrier, food and water, and the health certificate Delaware requires. Airlines open cargo booking about two weeks ahead of the flight.
The paperwork
What Delaware asks for
Delaware is one of the few states that names rabbits outright in its admission rules, so there is no guesswork here.
Your bunny needs an official health certificate from an accredited veterinarian, and it stays valid for thirty days. There is one extra step most states skip: a copy has to reach the State Veterinarian in Dover before your rabbit does.
Let us take care of the details for you. We’ll book the appointment, get the paperwork lined up and in order, and make sure Dover has its copy ahead of time, all for $100. You just get ready for a bunny.
Your kit leaves Oklahoma, which has never recorded a single case of rabbit hemorrhagic disease, so it starts the trip on clean ground. The certificate simply puts a veterinarian’s signature to what is already true.
And if your rabbit flies, that certificate is already folded into the $650.
The requirements live with the Delaware Department of Agriculture, Poultry and Animal Health Section, in the state’s own words.
Worth asking
Your questions, answered
What is your sales policy?
The short version: a 50% deposit reserves one specific kit, and it applies toward the total.
Your rabbit travels with a full pedigree and transition food.
Read the full sales policy before placing a deposit.
Are blue-eyed rabbits healthy?
Yes. The blue comes from the Vienna gene, which is a color gene, so it is not the red-eyed albinism people sometimes picture when they hear white rabbit. Our kits are pedigreed and raised in the middle of the house with daily handling, which means we know each one’s condition and temperament well before it ever travels.
Ours are raised right in our living space and handled daily, and they go home in fine condition, guaranteed for 72 hours after pickup.
How do I reserve one?
Send us your name, your phone number, and the kit that caught your eye. A deposit of half her price, plus a signed copy of our terms, holds that specific bunny.
If we happen to be between litters, get on the waitlist. Kits move quickly once their photos go up, and the list is how you hear first.
Does my rabbit need a health certificate?
Yes. Delaware asks for an official health certificate valid thirty days, plus a copy sent ahead to the State Veterinarian in Dover. Flying? It is already built into the $650. Traveling by ground, you can arrange it yourself, or hand the whole errand to us for $100 and we will make sure Dover has its copy on time.
How long does ground transport take?
It depends where you land on a driver’s route, since the schedule is built around the full load. Delaware is small enough that once a run reaches Wilmington, the rest of the state is a short hop.
Booking the run stays in your hands, and if you would ever like help finding a driver, just ask.
Could we just drive out and pick up?
Of course, and pickup costs you nothing but the miles. It is a long haul from the mid-Atlantic, but Route 66 runs right past our door, so families do turn it into a proper road trip and meet their bunny in person before the ride home.
Find your people
Clubs and shows in Delaware
Bringing home one of our Holland Lops for sale in Delaware comes with a community attached, and in a state this size it is an easy one to find.
Near you
Local Clubs & 4-H
Delaware keeps a strong 4-H tradition across all three counties, and the state fair grounds in Harrington fill with small-animal projects every summer. It is the quickest route to a mentor and a first show table.
The breed
Holland Lop Specialty Club
The Holland Lop Rabbit Specialty Club is the breed’s national home for standards, sweepstakes, and everything worth knowing about these little lops. Well worth the membership.
Showing
ARBA District 9
Delaware sits in ARBA District 9, alongside Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and the District of Columbia. A great many show weekends within an easy drive.
Finding a show near you
The ARBA club search filters by state for currently chartered local and youth clubs, contacts included, which beats any list we could print here.
The ups and downs
Owning a Holland Lop in Delaware
Keeping one of our Holland Lops for sale in Delaware is about as manageable as it gets, and the state’s size is a big part of why.
Nothing here is far from anything. A good exotic vet is reachable from almost any address in the state, a show in the wider district is rarely a long drive, and winters along the Delmarva coast stay mild enough that a Holland’s coat handles them easily.
The tricky part is the summer air. The Atlantic keeps Delaware humid well past Labor Day, and damp heat is the pairing a rabbit cannot manage alone, because it strips away the evaporative cooling a drier climate would allow.
Living indoors settles the whole question. A Delaware lop in the air conditioning never notices a sticky August afternoon, and simply follows the family from room to room instead.
Rabbit-savvy care
Finding a rabbit vet in Delaware
A rabbit hides illness until it is already serious, so line up a rabbit-literate vet well before the day you need one.
I am several states west in Oklahoma, so I have not stepped into these Delaware clinics myself. These come well recommended, so please call ahead, make sure they are taking new rabbit patients, and trust your own read on whether the fit feels right.
Wilmington
Windcrest Animal Hospital
A long-established Wilmington practice that keeps veterinarians on staff specializing in exotic pet care, small mammals included, with rehabilitation and boarding under the same roof.
Middletown
Middletown Veterinary Hospital
Runs a dedicated avian and exotics service that names rabbits directly, with a veterinarian who belongs to the Association of Exotic Mammal Veterinarians. Handy for central Delaware.
Sussex County and the beaches
How to vet a vet
Further south, ring a clinic and ask two plain questions: do they see rabbits every week, and would they perform a rabbit spay or neuter in-house. Two easy yeses and you have found your practice.
One more resource
The House Rabbit Society keeps a vet directory covering Delaware and the neighboring metros, and your county 4-H rabbit leader almost always knows who the show families call first.
Weathering the year
Caring for a Holland Lop through a Delaware summer
Our Holland Lops for sale in Delaware really only have one season to plan around. Winter along the coast is easy, spring and fall are lovely, and then the Atlantic parks a wall of humidity over the state from June onward. Damp heat is harder on a rabbit than a hotter, drier day would be.
A handful of habits carry a Delaware lop comfortably from the first muggy week to the last.
- Go by the heat index, not the thermometer. On the Delmarva the humidity is what turns a warm afternoon dangerous.
- Keep frozen bottles in rotation all summer, and swap them out before they thaw all the way through.
- Move air across the room with a fan, positioned to circulate rather than blow directly onto your rabbit.
- Check the ears on warm days. Hot, flushed ears mean a rabbit is working too hard to cool itself, and that is your cue to bring it inside.
- Damp coastal air means keeping the coat and back end clean and dry, since flies are drawn to soiled fur and can cause serious trouble quickly.
- Remember that the humidity lingers here. September afternoons can catch you off guard long after the calendar says summer is over.
For deeper reading, University of Delaware Cooperative Extension runs the state’s 4-H and small-animal programming, and rabbit.org is a friendly place to sort out the everyday questions.
A little Delaware history
The state that knows what blue costs
Delaware’s state bird is a chicken, which is charming enough on its own. What makes it ours is the color.
The Blue Hen has held the title since 1939, named for the steel-blue of its feathers. A company of Delaware soldiers in the Revolution, known for their nerve, were nicknamed the Blue Hen’s Chickens, and the name stuck to the whole state.
Here is the part that made us smile. Blue does not breed true in a chicken. Put two blue birds together and only about half the chicks come out blue; the rest arrive black, or splashed with white. There is no shortcut and never has been. Anyone who wants blue birds has to keep choosing for it, generation after generation, and accept that the color keeps trying to slip away.
We know that feeling in our bones. The Vienna gene behaves exactly the same way. Blue eyes have to be selected for over and over, litter after litter, because they will not simply hand themselves down.
So Delaware named itself, in a roundabout way, after the difficulty of holding onto something blue. We cannot think of a better place to send a blue-eyed rabbit.
Would you love one of these little angels to be yours someday?
