Florida
Heartwarming Holland Lops for Sale in Florida
Blue-eyed Holland Lops for sale in Florida, snowy Blue-Eyed Whites and blue-eyed kits in a whole range of Vienna colors, raised in Oklahoma and settling in from the Panhandle to the Keys.
Soft lopped ears, a round little face, and eyes that are genuinely blue. That is what comes out of our nest boxes.
Rhythm & Bleu is an American Rabbit Breeders Association (ARBA) registered rabbitry in Sapulpa, just outside Tulsa, Oklahoma. We raise the rare snow-white Blue-Eyed Whites along with blue-eyed Vienna-marked kits in colorful coats, blue, chocolate, harlequin. A full pedigree goes home with every kit.
Our kits are handled and cuddled every day from birth, growing up in a house where small hands are always reaching for them, so they leave here as sociable and sweet as a rabbit can be. Florida families bring one home by ground or by air, and pickup at our home is free, always, for anyone who feels like turning bunny day into a road trip.
Why the eyes
Holland Lops for Sale in Florida, and What Makes Ours Different
Blue eyes are the hard part to get right.
Blue eyes come from the Vienna gene, and Vienna is recessive. Both parents have to carry it before a single kit can show it, and even then only a share of a litter will. Working it into a strong, healthy line takes years of patient pairings, which is what keeps blue eyes scarce.
Our Holland Lops for sale in Florida are pedigreed, raised in the thick of family life, and handled from the nest box on. We breed for temperament first, then type, then color.
Current Kits for Sale
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Getting home
Two ways home to Florida
Florida is a good long haul south of Oklahoma, so most families choose road or air, and free pickup stays open for anyone up for a sunshine road trip.
Ground transport
starting point, varies by route
Ground routes reach down the peninsula through Gainesville, Ocala, Tampa, and beyond, and across the Panhandle from Pensacola to Tallahassee.
North and Central Florida connect soonest; South Florida and the Keys ask a little more patience. The one thing nobody can pin down is when a transporter’s planned trip will swing near your town. Rates begin at $125. Booking the transporter is yours to arrange, so it stays in your hands, and if you would like a hand finding one, just ask and we will steer you to the good ones.
Door-to-door flight
we handle the booking
Given the distance, many Florida families choose to fly. We set up the flight and handle the arrangements. No state on our map offers more places to land. We fly into Jacksonville, Tallahassee, Pensacola, Fort Walton Beach, Daytona Beach, Orlando, Tampa, Fort Myers, West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, and Key West. From the Panhandle to the Keys, one of them is close to you.
Routes do shift from time to time, so we confirm your airport together when you book. Your only job is the drive to pick her up.
The $650 covers everything, cargo ticket, airline-approved carrier, food and water, and the health certificate. Airlines open cargo booking about two weeks out.
The paperwork
What Florida requires
Here is where a rabbit from our rabbitry has a real edge. Florida’s rabbit rule asks for a health certificate only when a rabbit comes from a state that has had rabbit hemorrhagic disease in the past two years. Oklahoma has never recorded a single case of RHD, so under that rule our kits clear Florida with no certificate required at all.
Not sure which rule touches your kit, or when? That is exactly what we are here for. We’ll sort the paperwork, book any vet visit that is needed, and get every line lined up in order for $100. You just meet your bunny.
If your rabbit flies, a health certificate is already part of the $650, so the whole question takes care of itself. The current rules live on the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services animal movement page, in the state’s own words.
Before you decide
The questions we hear most
What are you promising us?
Every kit is handled daily from birth, so it leaves here as sociable and sweet as a rabbit can be. Your kit 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.
Ours are pedigreed and handled lap to lap every day they are here, brought up right in the middle of the household.
Does my rabbit need a health certificate?
Florida only asks for one when a rabbit comes from a state with recent RHD, and Oklahoma never has, so our kits are clear. Flying? A certificate is folded into the $650 either way. Ground or pickup? Let us sort the paperwork for $100.
Wait, so there is really no permit?
Correct. Because Oklahoma has never had rabbit hemorrhagic disease, our rabbits fall outside Florida’s certificate requirement, and there is no state entry permit for pet rabbits. Nothing to file, nothing to chase down.
Could we just drive up and get our bunny?
We would be delighted. Pickup in person costs you nothing but the drive down, some Florida families make a road trip of it, and your kit spends the ride home being adored instead of waiting on a route. We can have any paperwork you want ready for your visit.
Find your people
Clubs and shows in Florida
Statewide
Florida State Rabbit & Cavy Breeders Association
The FSRCBA sanctions shows across the state and regularly hosts Holland Lop open and youth specialty shows, so this is the surest place to meet other lop people and see the breed judged up close.
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 type and color in these little lops, well worth the membership.
Near you
Local Clubs & 4-H
County 4-H rabbit projects run from the Panhandle to South Florida, and the ARBA club search keeps the current list of sanctioned clubs and shows meeting in your corner of the state.
Shows and fairs worth a visit
County fair rabbit barns fill across Florida through the cooler months, and the FSRCBA show calendar lists the sanctioned weekends worth circling for a first show day.
For the full current list, the ARBA club search covers Florida end to end.
The ups and downs
Owning a Holland Lop in Florida
Florida made its name on easy living and endless sunshine, and a Holland Lop is glad to enjoy the indoor, air-conditioned half of that bargain.
Winters here are the mildest in the nation, kind beyond compare for a rabbit in a permanent wool coat, and the state’s rabbit community is deep, with an active statewide club and a world-class veterinary program to lean on. In the cooler months, this is lovely rabbit country.
The catch is no mystery to anyone who has survived a Florida July: the subtropical summer. Of every state where we place kits, Florida asks the most summer care, because heat and humidity together are the one thing a rabbit truly cannot manage on its own.
Indoors settles it completely. A Florida lop living in the house passes the hot months the way sensible Floridians do, in the cool, near its people, unbothered. Your air-conditioned living room is the finest rabbit country in the state, twelve months a year.
Rabbit-savvy care
Finding a good vet in Florida
A rabbit needs a veterinarian who sees rabbits often, and Florida’s flagship option is among the very best anywhere.
I am a long way northwest of here in Oklahoma, so I have not visited these Florida clinics in person. They come highly rated by the rabbit community and by sources like Google, so call ahead to confirm they are taking new rabbit patients and the fit feels right.
Gainesville
UF Small Animal Hospital, Zoological Medicine
The University of Florida’s Zoological Medicine Service is one of the few fully developed programs of its kind at any U.S. veterinary college, cares for rabbits specifically, and keeps exotic patients in a space away from cats and dogs. AAHA-accredited and open around the clock.
North Central Florida
Gainesville Rabbit Rescue
A long-running rabbit rescue that keeps a curated list of rabbit-savvy veterinarians across North Florida, a welcome shortcut to a good vet if you are in the region.
Everywhere else
Two quick questions
In the metros or down in the Keys, call a clinic and ask a pair of things: do they see rabbits regularly, and would they handle a rabbit spay or neuter. Two confident yeses and you have found your vet.
One more resource
The House Rabbit Society’s vet directory at houserabbit.org reaches across Florida, kept by people who take their own rabbits to the clinics they list.
Beating the heat
Caring for a Holland Lop through a Florida summer
Summer is the one thing worth planning around, and it deserves a straight word. This is a subtropical state, warm and humid for much of the year, and damp heat is the one weather a lop truly cannot shrug off. Our Holland Lops for sale in Florida live wonderfully here once the plan is in place, and the plan is simple. It just has to be real.
A handful of warm-weather habits keeps a Florida lop comfortable straight through the long season.
- Keep the rabbit indoors in air conditioning; in the Florida climate an outdoor hutch simply is not a safe summer home for a wool-coated animal.
- Go by the feels-like number, because in Florida the humidity, not the thermometer, decides how hard a day lands on a rabbit.
- Keep frozen water bottles cycling through the freezer year-round so a cold one is always ready to sprawl against.
- Build a hurricane-season plan for the bunny too: a battery fan, extra water, and a cooler with ice packs in case the power drops during a storm.
- Freshen hay more often in the humid months, since damp air shortens its life before your nose catches on.
For deeper reading, UF/IFAS Extension publishes dependable small-animal guidance, and rabbit.org is our favorite everyday reference for new families.
A little Florida history
The rabbit that carries Florida’s name
In 1890 a naturalist named Joel Asaph Allen described a new rabbit from a specimen collected along the Sebastian River, and because Florida is where it came from, he called it Sylvilagus floridanus. That rabbit turned out to be the eastern cottontail, the one you find from southern Canada down through Central America and into South America. Some people still call it the Florida cottontail. One small state, one 1890 specimen, and the name stuck to the most familiar rabbit in the hemisphere.
Which makes the contrast rather pleasing. Florida’s rabbit is the ordinary one, the one in every field and roadside from here to Canada. Our Holland Lops for sale in Florida are the opposite sort altogether: pedigreed, house-raised, and carrying a gene that stays scarce no matter how many fields you walk.
