Key: Upright Ears - Normal Fur - Large Rabbits

Californian

• The Californian breed has an ideal adult weight of 8 to 10.5 pounds. 
• The fur pattern has a white body and black nose, ears, feet and tail. 
• The eyes are pink or red.
  

Champagne D’Argent

• Champagne D'Argent rabbits have blueish-white fur with longer jet-black hairs.
• Have a darker slate-color "butterfly" on the nose. 
• The ideal adult weight for the Champagne D'Argent is 9 to 12 pounds.

Harlequin

• Harlequin rabbits have markings that look like a medieval jester:
  • Face split down the middle
  • Alternating darker and lighter body stripes (colors go right around the rabbit's body) or bars (bars are offset on one side of the body and the other). 
• The ideal adult weight for a Harlequin is 6.5-9.5 pounds.

New Zealand

• The New Zealand is 9-12 pounds in adult weight. 
• ARBA approved colors are Black, Red, White and Broken (white with black or red markings). 
• Back is curved evenly from the base of the ears to a peak at the hips, then smoothly down to the tail. 
• Has "flyback" fur - if you stroke the fur "backward" (tail to head), it returns quickly to a flat position.
  

Silver Marten

• Silver Marten rabbits have dark fur with:
  • White on the belly, chest, underside of tail, insides of legs, feet, chin and nostrils
  • Eye circles
  • White inside of ears
  • A silver triangle at the nape of the neck. 
  • There may be some silver hairs around the white areas. 
• They have an ideal adult weight of 6-9.5 pounds.

Rare Breeds

The following are considered "Rare Breeds", so they are less likely to be found in a pet shop or rescue situation than the breeds above. But, it could happen...

American

• The American breed has an ideal adult weight of nine to twelve pounds
• Comes in two approved colors - blue and white. 
• Its back arch starts back of the shoulders, running to a point forward of the hips ("mandolin" shape). 
• Looked at from the top, the body tapers slightly from hips to shoulders.

American Sable

• The American Sable's fur is a dark sepia brown color on the ears, face, back, legs and upper side of the tail. 
• This shades off to a paler shade of brown on the rest of the body. 
• American Sables have an ideal adult weight of 7-10 pounds.
  

Belgian Hare

There's no other domestic rabbit which looks quite like a Belgian Hare.

• It has huge ears
• Is much thinner, longer and generally "rangier" than most rabbits. 
• It has an ideal adult weight of 6 to 9.5 pounds.

Beveren

• Beverens have an ideal adult weight from 8 to 12 pounds
• Come in blue, black, white, brown and lilac (although only blue, black and white are ARBA-recognized colors). 
• Beverens are "mandolin" shaped, with the back arched from back of the shoulders to ahead of the hips. 
• The Beveren has "rollback" fur - if you stroke the fur "backward" (tail to head), it returns slowly to a flat position.

Blanc de Hotot

• The Hotot (pronounced "Hoh-Toh") are white rabbits with dark "mascara" around their eyes. 
• They have an ideal adult weight of 8-11 pounds.

Cinnamon

• The Cinnamon rabbit is, as the name implies, cinnamon or rust-colored.
• Has smoke-grey ticking across the back
• Has darker fur on the nose, legs and ears. 
• The ideal adult weight is 8.5 to 11 pounds.

Palomino

• Palomino rabbits have an adult weight of 8-11 pounds. 
• They come in two color variations, Golden and Lynx.

Rhinelander

• Rhinelanders have ideal adult weights of 6.5 to 10 pounds. 
• They are mostly white, with the following markings: 
  • distinctive black and bright gold-orange markings
  • a "butterfly" on the nose
  • six to eight spots along the sides, and 
  • a "racing stripe" down the back. 
  • ears are black and orange, on a white head 
  • black and orange circles around the eyes.