Mini Lop Show Standards
Mini Lops Fur Colors:
Mini lops are shown in classifications: solid and broken.
Solid Pattern Varieties:
-Agouti Group: chinchilla (black, blue, chocolate, lilac, sable, smoke pearl), chestnut agouti (black or chocolate), lynx, opal
-Pointed White Group: black, blue, chocolate, or lilac points
-Self Group: black, blue, chocolate, lilac, white (pink or blue eyes)
-Shaded Group: frosted pearl (black, blue, chocolate, lilac), sable, sable point, seal, smoke pearl, tortoise (black, blue, chocolate, lilac)
-Ticked Group: silver/silver fox (black, blue, brown, fawn), steel (gold or silver tipped, black, blue, chocolate, lilac, sable, smoke pearl basic color)
-Wide Band Group: cream, fawn, orange, red
Broken Pattern Varieties: broken and tri-colored
ARBA Body Type:
Compact
Approximate Size:
4 1/2 to 6 1/2 pounds
Important Things to Look for When Buying Show Stock:
A generally thick, massive body, broad through the shoulders and hindquarters. There should be good depth throughout the body as well. Look for well-filled shoulders that rise to round, smooth hindquarters with good fullness at the lower hips. The widest point of the body should be at the hindquarters, narrowing just slightly to the shoulders. Mini lops should be well-muscled and compact, with good balance of body. Does may have a dewlap that balances with the rest of the rabbit.
The head should be set close to the body, with a bold, well developed and sturdy look. There should be a slight outward curve from the base of the ears to the nose. Look for a head that is in balance with the body. The ears should lop vertically down along the sides of the head, rising from a good basal ridge of cartiladge. The ear openings should be turned in toward the head, hanging close to the cheeks. Look for well furred, rounded ears with good balance of length and width. The overall outline of the head and ears should resemble a horseshoe.
Mini lops should have thick, short legs with heavy bone. Their legs should be straight. Broken pattern rabbits must have all toenails on front feet match, and all toenails on rear feet match, however a difference between front and back pigmentation is allowed.
Look for glossy rollback fur that has good luster. It should be uniform, and of medium length, with good density.
Things to Avoid:
Mini lops should not have a body that is long, narrow, or flat. They should not be undercut or chopped at the hindquarters. A large dewlap is a fault.
A rabbit with a long or narrow head, or a pointed nose. Poor ear carriage, narrow, thick, thin, or folded ears. Avoid ears that do not open toward the cheeks, and ears with thin fur.
Mini lops should not have fine bone. Check color standard for toenail color disqualifications.
Avoid a coat that is long, silky, harsh, thin, or very short. Many scattered white hairs in a solid patterned rabbit is a fault, as are incomplete face markings on a broken patterned rabbit. Brokens with so much color on the face that the pattern is not clear is a slight fault. Eye color that does not match, foreign color spots, no head markings on a broken, and a broken with less than 10% color, are disqualifications.
Schedule of Points
General Type 80
Body 43
Head 20
Ears/Crown 12
Feet/Legs/Bone 5
Fur 10
Color/Markings 5
Condition 5
Total Points 100
Mini Lops Fur Colors:
Mini lops are shown in classifications: solid and broken.
Solid Pattern Varieties:
-Agouti Group: chinchilla (black, blue, chocolate, lilac, sable, smoke pearl), chestnut agouti (black or chocolate), lynx, opal
-Pointed White Group: black, blue, chocolate, or lilac points
-Self Group: black, blue, chocolate, lilac, white (pink or blue eyes)
-Shaded Group: frosted pearl (black, blue, chocolate, lilac), sable, sable point, seal, smoke pearl, tortoise (black, blue, chocolate, lilac)
-Ticked Group: silver/silver fox (black, blue, brown, fawn), steel (gold or silver tipped, black, blue, chocolate, lilac, sable, smoke pearl basic color)
-Wide Band Group: cream, fawn, orange, red
Broken Pattern Varieties: broken and tri-colored
ARBA Body Type:
Compact
Approximate Size:
4 1/2 to 6 1/2 pounds
Important Things to Look for When Buying Show Stock:
A generally thick, massive body, broad through the shoulders and hindquarters. There should be good depth throughout the body as well. Look for well-filled shoulders that rise to round, smooth hindquarters with good fullness at the lower hips. The widest point of the body should be at the hindquarters, narrowing just slightly to the shoulders. Mini lops should be well-muscled and compact, with good balance of body. Does may have a dewlap that balances with the rest of the rabbit.
The head should be set close to the body, with a bold, well developed and sturdy look. There should be a slight outward curve from the base of the ears to the nose. Look for a head that is in balance with the body. The ears should lop vertically down along the sides of the head, rising from a good basal ridge of cartiladge. The ear openings should be turned in toward the head, hanging close to the cheeks. Look for well furred, rounded ears with good balance of length and width. The overall outline of the head and ears should resemble a horseshoe.
Mini lops should have thick, short legs with heavy bone. Their legs should be straight. Broken pattern rabbits must have all toenails on front feet match, and all toenails on rear feet match, however a difference between front and back pigmentation is allowed.
Look for glossy rollback fur that has good luster. It should be uniform, and of medium length, with good density.
Things to Avoid:
Mini lops should not have a body that is long, narrow, or flat. They should not be undercut or chopped at the hindquarters. A large dewlap is a fault.
A rabbit with a long or narrow head, or a pointed nose. Poor ear carriage, narrow, thick, thin, or folded ears. Avoid ears that do not open toward the cheeks, and ears with thin fur.
Mini lops should not have fine bone. Check color standard for toenail color disqualifications.
Avoid a coat that is long, silky, harsh, thin, or very short. Many scattered white hairs in a solid patterned rabbit is a fault, as are incomplete face markings on a broken patterned rabbit. Brokens with so much color on the face that the pattern is not clear is a slight fault. Eye color that does not match, foreign color spots, no head markings on a broken, and a broken with less than 10% color, are disqualifications.
Schedule of Points
General Type 80
Body 43
Head 20
Ears/Crown 12
Feet/Legs/Bone 5
Fur 10
Color/Markings 5
Condition 5
Total Points 100