Maine
Snug Holland Lops for Sale in Maine
Rare Blue-Eyed Whites and blue-eyed Vienna-marked Holland Lops for sale in Maine, from Kittery clear up to the County.
A round, plush little lop looking up at you with genuinely blue eyes. That is what we raise here.
Rhythm & Bleu is an ARBA registered rabbitry in Northeast Oklahoma near Tulsa. We raise rare Blue-Eyed Whites alongside blue-eyed Vienna-marked kits in colorful coats, blue, chocolate, harlequin, now and then finished with a white blaze. A full pedigree travels with every kit.
Our kits are handled every day from birth, used to a vacuum roaring past and dishes rattling in the sink, so they leave here as lovable and mild-mannered as a rabbit can be. You can meet us in person for free, or bring one home by ground or by air, with the flight arranged for you.
Why the eyes
Holland Lops for Sale in Maine, and What Makes Ours Different
Blue eyes are the difficult part.
Blue eyes arrive by way of the Vienna gene, which is recessive, so both parents have to carry it before a single kit can show it. Even then only a share of any litter does, and getting there takes years of patient pairings.
Our Holland Lops for sale in Maine go home pedigreed, raised in the middle of everything this household does, and kept close to somebody from morning till night. We breed for temperament first, then type, then color.
Current Kits for Sale
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Getting home
Three ways home to Maine
Three ways to bring one of our Holland Lops for sale in Maine 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 Maine, 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 Kittery, Portland, Augusta, and Bangor.
The I-95 towns connect most readily. Downeast and the County ask 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
For a state this far from us, air is usually the kind choice. It turns a very long journey into one calm morning, landing at Portland or Bangor. We set up the flight and handle the arrangements. 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 Maine requires
Nothing at all. Maine writes its import rules species by species, with sections for dogs and cats, pet birds, ferrets, horses, and livestock. Rabbits are not among them, so a pet bunny comes home with no forms, no permit, and no waiting.
Not that she would have trouble passing an inspection. Every kit goes home well handled and thriving, and every kit goes out with a 72-hour health guarantee behind her.
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.
Maine publishes its requirements through the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, and its Animal Health office answers questions at 207-287-3701.
Before you decide
Your questions answered
What are you promising us?
Your kit is handled every day from her first week, so she goes home about as sweet as a rabbit gets. 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 Maine are pedigreed and handed lap to lap every day they are here, raised right in the middle of family life.
Is the flight hard on such a small animal?
Less than you would expect, and considerably easier than several days on the road. She travels in a climate-controlled hold in an airline-approved carrier with food and water, and she is usually with you the same day she leaves.
We handle the booking, the carrier, the paperwork, and the drop-off. Your only errand is the drive to the terminal.
Does my rabbit need paperwork for Maine?
No. Maine’s import rules are written species by species and rabbits are not on the list, 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.
Downeast and the County can take longer, which is why many Maine 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 Maine
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
Maine’s fair and 4-H tradition is one of the strongest in New England, and a local all-breed club is the fastest road to a mentor, a show table, and someone who will answer 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
Maine belongs to ARBA District 7, which takes in the rest of New England and New York. Southern Maine sits within reach of the district’s busier end, where sanctioned shows come around regularly.
Shows and fairs worth a visit
Maine runs one of the longest agricultural fair circuits anywhere, from Skowhegan through Fryeburg, 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 Maine
Maine may be the single easiest climate in the nation for a rabbit, which is not something we get to say often.
Dangerous heat is rare here. The one thing that most worries rabbit keepers elsewhere barely registers in Maine, and a lop in a Maine house is about as comfortable an animal as exists.
The catch is distance. This is a big, rural state, and the nearest rabbit-savvy vet may be a long drive, particularly Downeast or up in the County.
Which is why you sort it out early. Find your vet before she arrives, keep a couple of weeks of hay on hand for storm season, and Maine becomes just about the loveliest place a rabbit could live.
Rabbit-savvy care
Finding a good vet in Maine
A rabbit needs a veterinarian who sees rabbits often, and Maine has better options than its size suggests.
Fair warning: Oklahoma is a long way from Maine, and I have not walked through any of these doors in person. They come well rated, and one quick call ahead will tell you whether they’re taking new rabbit patients and the fit feels right.
Kennebunk
Southern Maine Hospital for Small Mammals
This is Maine’s first practice devoted entirely to exotic companion mammals, which means rabbits are not a sideline here, they are the whole point. Its founder got his first rabbit in college and has cheerfully described himself as a bunny person ever since.
Portland
Casco Bay Veterinary Hospital
Casco Bay names rabbits directly among the pocket pets it treats, with a stated focus on husbandry, housing, and diet, which is exactly the sort of thinking a rabbit needs from its vet.
North and Downeast
Two quick questions
Farther up, ring a clinic and ask a pair of things: do they see rabbits regularly, and would they be comfortable performing a rabbit spay or neuter. Two confident yeses and you can stop looking.
One more resource
The House Rabbit Society keeps a vet directory at houserabbit.org, and your county 4-H rabbit leader always knows who the show families call first.
Seasonal care
Caring for a Holland Lop through a Maine winter
Summer here is a gift and takes care of itself. Winter is the season worth a plan, and our Holland Lops for sale in Maine come through it beautifully with a few small habits in place.
A handful of steady habits carries a bunny comfortably from the first hard frost to the thaw.
- A woodstove dries a room out faster than most people notice, so keep her pen well back from it and check that her water has not quietly disappeared.
- Keep two weeks of hay and pellets on hand through winter, because a nor’easter can close the road long before you were planning another run to the feed store.
- A heavy ceramic crock holds off freezing longer than a bottle and is far easier to thaw at the sink when it finally gives in.
- Mud season tracks straight indoors, so expect to change litter more often through April and keep a towel by the door for muddy paws that are not hers.
- On the handful of humid August afternoons Maine does get, go by the feels-like number and give her a frozen bottle to lean against.
For deeper reading, University of Maine Cooperative 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 Maine history
The cooney, and six towns
Maine has exactly one native rabbit. Everything else out there that looks like one is something else entirely.
The New England cottontail, which Mainers have long called a cooney, is the state’s only true native rabbit. The snowshoe hare is a hare, bigger, longer in the ear and foot, and it turns white each winter while the cottontail stays brown all year. The eastern cottontail you might spot came from away.
These days the cooney is known in just six towns: Cape Elizabeth, Scarborough, Wells, Eliot, York, and Kittery. For about a decade now the state’s biologists have been working to bring it back, restoring thickets acre by acre and releasing rabbits raised in a captive breeding program. They even ask Mainers to report a brown rabbit spotted in the snow, since the hares have all gone white by then.
We understand that work better than most. Careful breeding, one generation at a time, so something rare does not slip quietly away. Our Holland Lops for sale in Maine come from the same patient arithmetic, aimed at a color rather than a species.
Would one of these little sweethearts make your family feel complete?
