Our Does
Luster’s Lops’ Blueberry Cheesecake
Our very first otter! This beautiful blue doe is our smallest at under 4lbs. She is proving to be a phenomenal mom. Her coat is luxurious, and her conformation is impressive. She’s adding so much to our lines already!
Plus, the otter color is just fantastic. “Otter” adds a white belly and tan lacing to black, blue, chocolate, or lilac. Special thanks to Lusters Lops for this jewel!
Genotype:
ataBbC-ddE-
Malvina Lake’s Maple Eclair
We love Maple’s color, conformation, and sweet face. She is originally from Luxembourg, where she is known as a sooty fawn, although here in the USA you’re more likely to hear her referred to as a black tort.
Maple is stunning in person with her black tips, rich coat, and excellent type. She’s an amazing mom, and we’re excited to be bringing back one of her daughters this fall.
Genotype:
aaBbC-Ddee (high rufus)
Greetje’s Laura
I cannot say enough good things about this doe. She is award-winning for a reason, part of the group that won the prestigious European Champion Breeder Award.
She is a devoted mom and her kits thrive. She is powerfully built, small (under 4lbs), and throws amazing kits. Her personality is a bit shy, although I don’t fault that in any rabbit that’s been through the import process. What’s interesting to me is that her kits tend to be among the friendliest here on my farm.
She is currently bred, and we hope this breeding will fill in the remaining gaps in her genotype.
Genotype:
aaBBC—dee
Sweet Huckleberry Farm’s Lavender
Truffle’s lilac daughter Lavender has graduated officially to our breeding program. She is sturdy, with good hips and a lovely head. Her coat and type are excellent!
She is growing into quite the beauty, but in this picture, you’ll see a bit of a phenomenon that scared us the first time we saw it. It is a moult common in lops where the first area to moult is on the head. Sure enough, when her coat grew in, she was lovely!
Genotype:
aabbCddE
Sweet Huckleberry Farm’s Lottie
Lottie is back! We’re grateful to have these beloved lines back to help with our next projects.
Lottie combines pure Malvina Lake lines from both Mousse and Maple. I have come to expect this cross to bring out the best in crowns and width, and Lottie exemplifies that. She does not seem to have high rufus but does have the rich/deep chocolate color we love.
Genotype:
aabbC-DdEe
Sweet Huckleberry Farm’s Hot Chocolate
Truffle’s chocolate daughter, Hot Chocolate, has officially entered our breeding program. She is beautiful and sound, and her first litter sports really big, eye-popping heads.
Genotype:
aabbCCDDE
(She’s had one litter with Floki and produced no shaded or dilute, so we suspect she is lovely “you get what you see” genotype.
Our Bucks
Storybook Bunnies’ Floki
Floki is quite the gift to our program. He has one of the best heads in the US, an incredible coat, robust bone, and a compact and well-built body!
He’s friendly and curious, bold and likable. Special thanks to Storybook Bunnies for this treasure!
He is a rare, nontraditional color called shaded agouti. It is this rabbit that tends to make our guests drool a bit. He looks like a stuffed animal!
Genotype (best guess on c locus):
AaBBcchlchDdEE
Horst’s Klondike Blizzard
Blizzard is one of our direct imports from Luxembourg. He is pure Greetje lines, but purchased from one of the other European breeders to whom those have been entrusted.
Blizzard is small (under 4lbs), stocky, with a face reminiscent of his dad Jaimy. He has primarily been used for BEW litters so far, so we are still discovering his genotype. What I can tell you is that he throws typey kits with blocky heads. Hurrah!
Genotype:
———D—-
Luster’s Lop’s Latte
Latte was sired by our own Sweet Huckleberry Farms Heath Nugget, and his mom is Malvina Lake’s Splotch.
He has ESA “Can I watch TV with you?” temperament, a coat that is velvety soft, and an eye-catching color.
His first litter is on its way and should answer some questions about his color, like whether he hides harli or nonextension.
Genotype:
AabbCddE-
Luster’s Lop’s Mozart
Mozart is one of only a handful of Mini Plush Lops to be imported in utero. His mother is Greetje’s Lina - one of her award winning BEWs. The sire is a phenomal plush carrying German Lop from Aafke.
Mozart is going to bring the phenomenal bone of his sire to our BEW lines and help us increase genetic diversity without straying from the vision.
His first litters had remarkable crown width at birth!
Genotype:
aaB-C-D-ee
Other Bucks
Sweet Huckleberry Farm’s Blackberry Dumpling
AKA: Stu
This lovely buck we bred now lives in a local pet home, and we were able to bring him back for a day to capture his genetics. Isn’t he a beauty?
Genotype:
aaBbC-DEe
Sweet Huckleberry Farm’s
Heath Nugget
Nugget is a darling chocolate harlequin. He carries Toffee and Mousse lines, and is really growing into himself.
He is the result of nearly 2 years of work to make a harli buck worthy of breeding. Like all rabbits, he has imperfections but he is a wonderful step in our harli program!
Nugget is currently in OK helping a friend, but his genetics live on here.
Genotype:
Aa-bbC-Ddeje
Rabbits We’ve Loved and Lost
Ianthe
Imported from Greetje’s famous rabbitry in the Netherlands, Ianthe had a particularly impressive coat, luxuriously soft and a very rich blue.
She was a large, sturdy doe with a kind temperament and her genetics have really helped our breeding program.
Sadly, we lost this doe, but thankfully not before she gave us a large and healthy litter. Her genetics live on in some of our very best-coated and calmest young does!
Interesting note: This doe was known as Sugarplum before we discovered her real name.
Genotype:
aaBbC-ddE-
Malvina Lake’s Little Toffee Bit
This beautiful harlequin doe came to us all the way from Luxembourg and is such a trooper! She settled in really well here and gave us some of our best/most colorful rabbits ever before we lost her (likely due to delivery complications) in the summer of 2023. She is missed, but her lines continue on!
Genotype:
AaBbC-Deje
Malvina Lake’s Chocolate Mousse
Mousse was hand-selected for our rabbitry by Malvina Lakes and we are SO incredibly grateful!
He is kind and friendly, built like a tank, and has the best face ever. He was an instant favorite when he arrived at less than a year old, and in his time here he has continued to get better and better.
It is worth noting that bucks in particular will have baby heads for awhile, and then around 12-15 months they seem to “pop” and really grow into the chunky, blocky head that is so distinctive of this breed. His baby head was amazing, but his full-grown head? Absolutely phenomenal!
Genotype:
aabbC-DdEE