Breeding Lionhead Male with Lionlop Female

petscharm · Jan 18, 2013

Hello friends
This is my first post on this forum. I hope you will pardon me for my lack of knowledge about rabbits, but i am a great rabbit lover.

So my question is that i have a Lionhead (Male) and a Lionlop (female) for the last 8 months, they had 3 clutches but all the babies were SIMPLE LIONHEADS, there is no LOP rabbit in them. What is the reason for this ???

I want to have Loop Eared bunnies, is it possible that female may deliver babies in future that are LionLops ???

Waiting for your reply

Best Regards

Bad Habit · Jan 18, 2013

At what age do you sell them? Have you followed up with any of the buyers to see if the ears lopped at a later point? As I understand it, they aren't born lopped, but lop when they are older. I want to say 3mths, but am not positive on that. Also, since you are breeding a standard eared rabbit to a lop, you can get varying degrees of lop, from no lop, to airplane ears, one ear lopped or both.

Dood · Jan 18, 2013

Getting ears to lop properly, even when breeding two lop ears together, is a difficult thing to achieve. Some kits will have 'airplane ears' that stick out sideways and some may have one sightly up and one down.

I doubt you will ever get lop ears from these two rabbits. Your best option is to get a new buck who has lop ears.

Amy · Jan 18, 2013

I have no idea, but WELCOME!!!

Secuono · Jan 18, 2013

Lop ears can take awhile to droop. But I agree with getting a Lionlop buck to breed her to instead of a Lionhead.
Also, follow up with the buyers to see if any of the ears eventually drooped.

Peach · Jan 18, 2013

With my lops, you usually don't see them lop until 3-4 weeks. You probably want to breed her to a lion lop rather than a lion head cause you won't get the lop in the first generation. You will get sagging ears/weaker cartilage, but that's usually it. I've made meat muts with erect ear rabbits and never have gotten ears all the way down. The crown has a lot to do with the way any lop breeds ears fall. If you keep back a son, you could potential breed him back to the mother and get the desired lop ears you want.<br /><br />__________ Fri Jan 18, 2013 4:48 pm __________<br /><br />They won't be perfect, but they will be better than your F1s