Maryland
Cheerful Holland Lops for Sale in Maryland
Rare Blue-Eyed Whites and blue-eyed Vienna-marked Holland Lops for sale in Maryland, from Deep Creek Lake out to the Eastern Shore.
Snow-white fur or a rich harlequin coat, and above it, a pair of clear 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 held and doted on every day from birth, used to the hustle and bustle of family life, so they leave here as gentle and good-natured 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 Maryland, and What Makes Ours Different
Blue eyes are the part that takes patience.
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 careful pairings.
Our Holland Lops for sale in Maryland carry pedigrees, are raised in the middle of everything this household does, and are kept close and coddled the whole day through. We breed for temperament first, then type, then color.
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Getting home
Three ways home to Maryland
Three ways to bring one of our Holland Lops for sale in Maryland home, and the first one is free.
Meet in person
always open
Pickup at our home costs nothing but the drive. Families do make a trip of it, and Old Route 66 runs practically past our door if you want the scenic version 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 coming east reach Hagerstown, Frederick, and Baltimore, then down the corridor toward the DC suburbs.
The I-70 and I-95 towns connect quickest. Garrett County and the lower Eastern Shore ask a bit more patience. Transporters keep fixed calendars, and the wait is for one of their planned trips to pass near your town. 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 long haul into one calm morning, and Maryland is well covered from every direction. We set up the flight and handle the arrangements.
We fly into Baltimore, Washington Reagan National, Washington Dulles, Salisbury, and Philadelphia. Baltimore suits the middle of the state, the two Washington airports sit right on the doorstep of the Maryland suburbs, Salisbury handles the Eastern Shore and Ocean City, and Philadelphia is closest if you are up in Cecil County. 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 Maryland requires
Nothing at all, and Maryland is unusually clear about it. The state names rabbits twice in its animal rules: once to count them as livestock, and then again to excuse them from the interstate certificate that livestock normally travels on.
Poultry and rabbits are written out by name as the exceptions. So yours comes home with no forms, no permit, and nothing to wait on.
Would you like a health certificate anyway, for your own records or because you plan to show her? 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.
Maryland publishes its rules through the Department of Agriculture, and its Animal Health Program answers questions at 410-841-5810.
Good to know
Common questions from Maryland
What are you promising us?
Your kit is handled every day from birth, so she goes home about as sociable 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 Maryland are pedigreed and handed lap to lap every day they are here, raised right in the middle of family life.
Which airport should we use?
Whichever is closest, and Maryland has more options than most states its size. We fly into Baltimore, Washington Reagan National, Washington Dulles, Salisbury, and Philadelphia.
The DC suburbs usually find National or Dulles quickest, the Eastern Shore finds Salisbury, and Cecil County finds Philadelphia. Tell us your town and we will work it out with you.
Does my rabbit need paperwork for Maryland?
No. Maryland writes poultry and rabbits out by name as exceptions to the certificate requirement, so there is nothing to file.
Flying? The airline wants a certificate regardless, and it is already inside the $650. If you plan to show her, fairs set their own rules, so ask them early and we can have it ready for $100.
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.
Garrett County and the lower Shore can take longer. 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 Maryland
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
Maryland’s county fair and 4-H tradition is strong from the western mountains to the Shore, 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 9
Maryland sits near the middle of ARBA District 9, which stretches from the Carolinas up through Virginia and Pennsylvania to Delaware and New Jersey. Being central to all of it means a show is rarely a long drive.
Shows and fairs worth a visit
The Maryland State Fair at Timonium has been running since the 1870s and keeps a full 4-H rabbit division, and county fairs across the state fill their small-animal barns all summer long.
For sanctioned rabbit shows near you, the ARBA club search keeps the current list.
The ups and downs
Owning a Holland Lop in Maryland
Maryland packs an improbable amount of country into a small space, and a rabbit does well in nearly all of it.
Nothing here is extreme for long, and the density of the corridor means good veterinary care is usually close by. For a small animal that mostly wants a steady room and its people, that is a fine combination.
The catch is the middle of summer. Bay humidity settles over the state in July and August, and damp heat is the one weather a lop minds.
Indoors handles it entirely. She spends the sticky weeks in the cool beside you and never notices, which is more than most Marylanders manage in August.
Rabbit-savvy care
Finding a good vet in Maryland
A rabbit needs a veterinarian who sees rabbits often, and Maryland keeps good ones spread from the western mountains to the Eastern Shore.
One caveat worth stating: Oklahoma is a long way from the Chesapeake, and I have not been through these doors myself. Call ahead, check they’re taking new rabbit patients, and make sure the fit feels right.
Frederick & the west
Opossum Pike Vet Clinic
A Frederick hospital that takes rabbits of every breed right alongside the dogs and cats, which makes it the nearest real exotic option for the mountain counties out toward Garrett.
The corridor
Falls Road Animal Hospital
Baltimore’s dedicated avian and exotic hospital sees rabbits with no referral needed and runs a 24/7 emergency service, so it reaches the Baltimore side and the DC suburbs both.
The Eastern Shore
Pets On The Shore
Down in Salisbury, one of the few Shore practices that sees rabbits and pocket pets, an easy reach for anyone out toward the beaches and Ocean City.
One more resource
Not near any of the three? The House Rabbit Society keeps a vet directory reaching across Maryland, 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 Maryland year
Maryland changes character three times in about 250 miles, so the plan depends a good deal on which Maryland you live in. Our Holland Lops for sale in Maryland settle in beautifully across all of it.
A handful of steady habits carries a bunny comfortably right around the calendar.
- Through July and August, go by the feels-like number rather than the thermometer, because Bay humidity decides how hard a day lands on a rabbit.
- Keep a rotation of frozen water bottles going all summer so a cool one is always waiting to be leaned against.
- Out west in the mountains, check her water twice a day in January, since a bottle can freeze in a cold room while the rest of the house feels fine.
- Along the Shore and the Bay, store hay up off the floor in something that closes, because salt air keeps everything faintly damp.
- Coastal storms take the power out, so keep a battery fan, spare water, and a week of hay set aside from late summer onward.
For deeper reading, University of Maryland 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 Maryland history
Where the rabbit ranges end
Maryland’s western mountains once climbed high enough, in spirit if not in latitude, to hold snowshoe hares. The state’s own wildlife people put the last recorded sighting at 1952. Head far enough south and the marsh rabbit turns up in the lower Bay counties, though Maryland winters keep it from properly settling in.
What the state reliably holds now is two cottontails, the eastern and the Appalachian, and they are so alike that appearance alone will not separate them. Maryland is a place where rabbit ranges arrive, overlap, and quietly stop.
Which is a rather good argument for the sort of rabbit we raise. A Vienna gene does not care about latitude or elevation. Our Holland Lops for sale in Maryland will be exactly as blue-eyed in Oakland as in Ocean City, and you will never once have to squint to tell what you are looking at.
Thinking one of these precious babies might belong with you?
