New Mexico
Dreamy Holland Lops for Sale in New Mexico
Blue-eyed Holland Lops for sale in New Mexico, snowy Blue-Eyed Whites and blue-eyed kits in a whole range of Vienna colors.
Hello, Land of Enchantment. We’re a little rabbitry in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, and YOU are just who we hoped would wander in.
The road between us is one straight line: I-40, from our corner of Oklahoma right into Albuquerque.
We’re Rhythm & Bleu, and we raise blue-eyed Holland Lops, the rare snow-white kind and the Vienna-marked Holland Lops in colorful coats, that settle in from Las Cruces to Taos. We are an American Rabbit Breeders Association (ARBA) registered rabbitry.
Here is why people come to us
Holland Lops for Sale in New Mexico, and What Makes Ours Different
Blue eyes. The Vienna gene is what puts them there, and it’s one of the trickiest projects in the whole breed. Both parents have to carry it. When everything lines up, some kits arrive as Blue-Eyed Whites, that rare snow coat with bright blue eyes, and others arrive Vienna-marked, wearing blue eyes with a colorful coat, chocolate, blue, harlequin, sometimes with a white blaze like a paint pony. Every one of them carries the look almost nobody else produces.
So when you go searching through Holland Lops for sale in New Mexico, we got you.
Our Holland Lops for sale in New Mexico grow up pedigreed and underfoot, right in the middle of the household, held every day from their first week. Vienna gene first, correct type always, and the most wonderful temperaments we can breed toward.
Current Kits for Sale
Don’t see what you’re looking for?
Getting a rabbit to New Mexico
Two ways home
Here’s how each option works, priced plainly, to help make your choice easy. And if you’d rather make the drive yourself, our door is open.
Ground transport
From, varies by route
Ground is frankly, less expensive, and New Mexico sits on one of the great east-west roads in America.
A driver leaves the Tulsa area, drops down to I-40, and follows old Route 66 west through Oklahoma City, Amarillo, and Tucumcari, rolling into Albuquerque at around 640 miles. From there I-25 runs north to Santa Fe and south through Truth or Consequences to Las Cruces. Eastern New Mexico towns like Clovis and Portales sit even closer to us than Albuquerque does.
The I-40 and I-25 corridors hold most of the state’s buyers, so runs your way come together regularly. The far corners, Farmington up in the northwest especially, take more patience, since a driver needs a reason to leave the interstate.
A plain word about how ground works: the booking is yours to make. Transporters keep their own calendars, and there’s no telling weeks ahead which of their trips will pass near your town, or when. We’ll point you to the right transporters and the right runs, share what each is like to work with, and the choice stays in your hands.
Your little one rides climate-controlled on a route the driver’s already covering, and that shared ride is what keeps the fare kind. We pack plenty of hay and pellets, and the pedigree rides along too.
Air transport
About a day
Air turns the whole journey into a single calm day. One flight into Albuquerque’s Sunport, and your bun steps off fresh instead of finishing a long highway run.
It’s $650, covering the cargo ticket, an airline-approved carrier, food and water for the trip, and the health certificate and acclimation statement the airline requires.
Air is also the one option we arrange for you. Unlike ground, where you book the transporter yourself, we handle the entire flight, and you simply meet your bun at the airport.
Airlines set cargo bookings about two weeks out, so committing early keeps your date easy.
The part that needs a bit of explaining
What New Mexico requires
Here’s a pleasant surprise from a state famous for its paperwork traditions: for a pet rabbit, New Mexico asks for none at all.
A healthy domestic rabbit simply isn’t regulated on its way in. No certificate, no permit, no exam. Your bunny just needs to be healthy, and ours are.
If your rabbit flies, the airline requires a health certificate regardless of the destination, and that’s already folded into the air price.
One more piece of comfort: Oklahoma has never had a case of Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease. The Southwest has seen RHD in wild rabbit populations since 2020, so a kit arriving from a state with a spotless record is a genuinely better starting point, and the vaccine is a worthwhile conversation with your vet once your bun is settled.
You can confirm current rules with the New Mexico Livestock Board, and so can we.
New Mexico
Questions we get
Do I need a health certificate to bring a rabbit into New Mexico?
Nope! New Mexico’s import rules cover livestock, and its pet rules cover dogs and cats. A pet rabbit just needs to be healthy. If your rabbit flies, the airline requires a certificate regardless, and it’s already included in the air price.
Should my New Mexico rabbit get the RHD vaccine?
It’s worth asking your vet about once your bun is home. Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease has circulated in wild rabbits across the Southwest since 2020, and the vaccine is available through veterinarians. Your kit arrives from Oklahoma, which has never had a case, so you’re starting from a clean slate worth protecting.
How long does ground transport take?
It depends where you sit on the driver’s route, since the schedule is built around the whole load. The I-40 and I-25 corridors come together most readily, often within days to a couple of weeks of pickup. We’ll point you to the right transporters and routes, and the booking stays in your hands.
Can I drive to Oklahoma and pick up my rabbit myself?
You surely can. From Albuquerque it’s a long day on I-40, about nine hours, and from eastern New Mexico it’s closer to six or seven. You meet your bun in person, we answer everything face to face, and they ride home in your lap with no paperwork required at the state line.
I just want a sweet pet bunny and don’t know the breeds. Where do I start?
Right where you are! Plenty of people typing “rabbits for sale in New Mexico” or “bunnies for sale” have never run across the words Holland Lop, and that’s no trouble at all. They’re a compact, floppy-eared breed with an easygoing streak, sweet with children and happiest indoors alongside the family. The breed vocabulary can wait; the cuddles don’t have to.
Community
Rabbit clubs in New Mexico
New Mexico’s rabbit community is smaller than its neighbors’ and warmer for it. Buying Holland Lops for sale in New Mexico connects you with a tight-knit crowd, and here’s where to find them.
Statewide
New Mexico House Rabbit Society
An active chapter devoted to rabbit welfare and education, with resources for new owners, including a statewide list of rabbit-experienced vets.
Breed specialty
Holland Lop Rabbit Specialty Club
The national club for the breed, worth joining wherever in New Mexico you live once the Holland bug bites.
Shows & showing
ARBA District 4
New Mexico sits in ARBA District 4, alongside Colorado, Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. The American Rabbit Breeders Association sanctions shows nationwide, and its club search lists current New Mexico clubs and contacts.
Where to see rabbits shown
The New Mexico State Fair in Albuquerque runs a rabbit show every September, and county fair 4-H barns dot the state from Roswell to Farmington.
The honest ups and downs
Owning a Holland Lop in New Mexico
New Mexico turns out to be quietly excellent rabbit country, with one big rule to respect.
The excellent part: dry air. The humid heat that endangers rabbits east of the plains barely exists here, and dry heat is far easier on a bun. Add no import paperwork, an active House Rabbit Society chapter with a real vet list, and winters that a Holland’s coat shrugs off even up in Santa Fe and Taos, and the case builds fast.
The rule to respect is the high desert itself. The sun at elevation is fierce, summer afternoons in the south run genuinely hot, days and nights can swing thirty degrees, and the dry air pulls moisture from a rabbit around the clock.
The plan is one word long: indoors. Adobe walls were New Mexico’s original climate control, and your air conditioning finishes the job. A Holland kept inside gets the cool, the shade, and the closeness it wants anyway.
Line one up early
Rabbit-savvy vets in New Mexico
A rabbit needs a vet who actually works on rabbits, and that is a shorter list than most new owners expect. The happy part is that New Mexico hands you a shortcut most states cannot.
From one state over: I haven’t sat in these waiting rooms myself, so here’s the honest way to find your person, starting with the best resource in the state. These come well rated, so call ahead and make sure they’re taking new rabbit patients.
The head start
The NMHRS vet list
The New Mexico House Rabbit Society keeps a statewide list of rabbit-experienced veterinarians, built from the recommendations of the state’s rabbit rescuers and caregivers. Start there.
Albuquerque & Santa Fe
The metro practices
The Rio Grande corridor has the state’s best odds of an exotic-savvy clinic. Call and ask two questions: do any of your vets see rabbits, and who do you refer to if not?
Nationwide
House Rabbit Society listings
The national HRS vet directory backs up the state list and updates as new rabbit-friendly practices appear.
One more tip
Your county’s 4-H rabbit leader is often the best-informed person around about which local vet truly sees rabbits, especially out beyond the Rio Grande corridor.
Read this before summer
Holland Lops in the high desert
If you’re bringing home one of our Holland Lops for sale in New Mexico, the high desert asks three things of you, and none of them are hard.
First, water. New Mexico’s air is thirsty, and it drinks from your rabbit day and night, summer and winter. A full, clean bottle or bowl around the clock is the foundation of desert rabbit keeping, more so than in any humid state.
Second, respect the sun. At a mile of elevation the light has real teeth, and a southern summer afternoon in Las Cruces or Roswell is genuinely hot even in dry air. The saving grace is that dry heat is far kinder to a rabbit than the muggy kind, but kinder isn’t harmless.
Third, mind the swings. High desert days and nights can be thirty degrees apart, and a rabbit living outdoors rides that elevator twice a day. Steady beats extreme for this breed, every time.
- The one-move answer is an indoor rabbit. It settles the sun, the swings, and most of the water worry in a single decision, and a Holland prefers it anyway.
- Keep frozen water bottles in rotation through the warm months. Your bun will sprawl against one like it’s the coolest flagstone in the plaza.
- Set a fan to move air across the space, never aimed straight at your rabbit.
- If your Holland gets outdoor time, make it early morning or evening, with shade built for the low, harsh afternoon sun.
- Feel the ears on hot days. Warm, flushed ears are the first quiet signal of a rabbit working too hard to cool down.
Winter, for the record, is the easy season. Even a Taos cold snap is comfortable for a dry, wind-sheltered Holland, though the indoor life solves that too.
More on heat safety from the House Rabbit Society, and NMSU Extension runs 4-H rabbit programs and small-animal resources in every county.
A little New Mexico history
The state that painted a rabbit on the moon
A thousand years ago in the river valleys of southwestern New Mexico, the Mimbres people looked up at the full moon and saw what many peoples of the Americas saw in its gray shadows: not a man in the moon, but a rabbit.
The rabbit became their moon. It hopped across their famous black-on-white pottery, some of the most admired ceramic art ever made in North America, painted in crisp lines a museum curator would envy today.
Then, on the morning of July 5, 1054, the Mimbres woke to something impossible: a brilliant new star blazing beside the crescent moon, bright enough to see in daylight, and it stayed for twenty-three days. We now know it was a supernova, the explosion that created the Crab Nebula. A Mimbres artist recorded it the only way that made sense: a rabbit curled into a crescent, with a star bursting from the tip of its foot, painted with twenty-three rays.
Astronomers call that bowl the most certain record of the great supernova ever found outside China and Japan. Which means one of the most important astronomical documents in the history of this continent is a New Mexico painting of a rabbit.
So a blue-eyed Holland lop has more claim to New Mexico than almost anywhere we ship. The white ones wear the moon’s own coat, and every one of them carries on a very old New Mexico tradition: a rabbit worth gazing at.
A thousand years of rabbits in the moon, and ours wear its white.
