Holland Lop Color Guide

**UNDER CONSTRUCTION**
(I would like to use most of my own pictures, with some exceptions of colors I don't really work with, so this page may take a little time to build! For now all I have are a few adult pics but will be adding more as well as pictures of kits at different ages as I get them to help identify kit colors.....please bear with me!)

Being so new to the breed I've been having a difficult time being able to tell the difference between newborn kit colors. I've been trying to research the colors on the internet but all I seem to be finding are incomplete pages and links that no longer work and it's been really frustrating!! So....I've decided to work on setting up a page myself! It will take me a while but hopefully it will help future breeders and rabbit lovers alike!!!

*Color descriptions are based on the Standard of Perfection as published by the ARBA*

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Shaded

VP's Cricket

Tort
Color is to be clean bright orange blending to darker color over lower rump and haunches. Top color is to carry down and blend to a dark cream undercolor next to the skin. Underside of the tail is to match shadings as close as possible. Shading on the head is darkest along the jaw line, darkening again around the ear base blending the ears to match body color. Brown eyes.

VP's Ike

Blue Tort
Color is to be clean bright orange blending to darker color over lower rump and haunches. Top color is to carry down and blend to a dark cream undercolor next to the skin. Underside of the tail is to match shadings as close as possible. Shading on the head is darkest along the jaw line, darkening again around the ear base blending the ears to match body color. Blue-gray eyes.

Zinn's Jane Doe

Sable Point
Color is to be a rich sepia brown on the nose, ears, feet, legs, and tail. Marking color is to shade rapidly to a rich cream body color. The entire body is to be creamy color, with white undercolor. Eyes are to be brown.

Creator's Alpha

Siamese Sable
Color is to be a rich sepia brown on the nose, ears, feet, legs, and tail. Surface color is to fade to lighter sepia on the sides, chest, belly, legs, and underside of tail. Undercolor will be slightly lighter than surface color. Marking color is to shade gradually. Eyes are to be brown.

Smoke Pearl
Color is to be a rich smoke gray on the nose, ears, feet, legs, and tail. Surface color is to fade to pearl gray on the sides, chest, belly, legs, and underside of tail. Undercolor will be slightly lighter than surface color. Marking color is to shade gradually and be free from blotches. Eyes are to be blue-gray.

Seal
Color is to be a rich dark sepia (almost black) shading to slightly paler flanks, chest, and belly. Color is to go well down the hairshaft and undercolor matches shading throughout. Eyes are to be brown.

Self

VP's Rockstar

Black
Surface color is to be rich jet black, extending well down the hair shaft. Undercolor is to be a dark slate-blue. Brown eyes.

Blue
Surface color is to be rich dark blue, extending well down the hair shaft. Undercolor is to be a medium blue. Blue-gray eyes.

Chocolate
Surface color is to be rich chocolate, extending well down the hair shaft. Undercolor is to be a dove-gray. Brown eyes.

VP's Napoleon

Blue Eyed White (BEW)
Surface and undercolor is to be a pure white. The eyes are a brilliant blue.

Lynn's REWthie

Ruby/Red Eyed White (REW)
Surface and undercolor is to be a pure white. The eyes are to have a ruby red pupil with a lighter pink colored iris.

Agouti

VP's Sweetart

Chestnut Agouti
Surface color is to be rich chestnut brown ticked with jet black tipped guard hairs. Intermediate band is well defined orange over a dark slate-blue undercolor. The chest is to be light brown over a dark slate-blue undercolor. Nape of the neck is to be orange with ears laced in black. Eyes are brown. The belly should have a slate blue undercolor as well.

VP's Nash Rambler

Opal
Surface color is to be blue mingled with fawn. There is a blue band on top of the fawn Intermediate band over a slate-blue undercolor. The chest is to be fawn over a medium slate-blue undercolor. Nape of the neck is to be fawn. Eyes are blue. The belly should have a slate blue undercolor as well. It is a dilute chestnut agouti.

Zinn's Zen

Chinchilla
Surface color is to be pearl white ticked with jet black. There is a black band on top of a pearl white intermediary band over a dark slate-blue undercolor. Chest is pearl white over a dark slate-blue undercolor. Eyes are brown.

Steel

Campo's Cinnamimion

Black Gold Tipped Steel
The surface color of the body is to be black, running as deep as possible. Coat is to be interspersed with an even ticking of gold over the entire body and head. Eye color is brown.

Wideband

VP's Pikachu

Orange
Surface color of the body is to be bright orange on the head, outside of ears, back, and top of tail. Color will fade to lighter orange on the sides and chest. Color is to extend well down the hair shaft to an off-white undercolor. Belly is to be white with off-white undercolor. Inside of ears and nostrils are to be creamy white. Brown eyes.

Fawn
Fawn is to be rich golden color on the on saddle, running down the flanks. Color is to run down the hair shaft to a near white undercolor. Eye circles, inside of ears, underside of jowls, underside of tail, and belly are to be white. Brown eyes.

Cream
Color on the body, head, ears, feet and top of tail is to be creamy beige, carried well down towards the skin. Eye circles, inside of ears, underside of jowls, underside of tail, and belly are to be white. Eyes are blue-gray.

VP's Luxurious

Frosty
Color is to be a light pearl, as even as possible. When blowing into the coat, a slight ring may appear at the tip of the hair shaft. Slightly darker tint on nose, ears, legs, and feet is permissible. Belly color and undercolor is to be light pearl to white. White underside of tail is permitted. Eyes can be brown or blue-gray.

Broken

VP's Lola

Broken means any color in conjunction with white. Toenails must all match by either being all dark, or all white. They cannot be mis-matched. Eye color depends on what the base color of the broken animal is. All brokens must have at least 10% color on their body to be showable. If they don't, they're referred to as a "charlie". It is preferred that the ears be all one solid color, as must there be complete colored eye circles around the eyes. A nose marking called a butterfly is required, having half of a nose marking, or butterfly is considered a fault. Picture shows a rabbit with a full butterfly marking.

Quaranta's Trifecta

Tri Colored

Unshowable Colors

VP's Louise

Harlequin
This color is a bright orange with bands of gray and black covering the body from side to side across the saddle. Darker color also is flecked in the face.

Magpie

More colors and pictures added soon! =o)