Flemish Giants-- the gentle giants-- are great animals and a tremendous joy to behold.  The mass alone is impressive, but add the silky sheen of a healthy coat and the twitching nose, the soft features that are only of Bunny, the expressions of an intelligent creature and you have a Flemish Giant.  There is just very little that can compare to having the softness with the size-- it is really very special.

If you are only going to have one rabbit, it most certainly would behoove one to get a male, a buck.  This is because females are really not at their best if they go too long without breeding-- this can be insignificant, or it can surmount into an agitated doe that spills her food and stomps around somewhat peeved for a few days each moon. My bucks love to get out and follow me around, hang close and come to be petted and played with when I stop; I have one wonderful sweet doe, and one very angst ridden and protective doe, and tho they have different personalities, they are both really great and lovable.

The kits are born fairly small BUT OH!! How do they grow-- and I mean GROW-- they can be one pound at two weeks of age, and five pounds at two months! By eight months you can expect a fourteen pound beast on your hands, but it might not happen that fast, or at all.  My buck Money only weighs 13.02, but it is enough to get him registered, while the girls topped out under 13 and didn’t make it yet, but we are working on increasing mass-- through exercise and higher protein diet, how else? weight lifting!!  ha ha

Flemish Giants come in Blue, Black, Steel, White, Fawn Sandy and Light Gray... and I carry black, blue, and may expand to white and light grey. Oh no-- blue and black is enough  ha ha

Breeding the Blue is tricky and requires Blue and Black backgrounds to keep away from that annoying white ticking that is associated with the handsome black ticking of a Steel and Light Gray.  If you are breeding Flemish or would like to in the future, insist on looking at the pedigrees before choosing your rabbit,

talk to the breeder about your desires and plans

and look at the eye color carefully with an eye chart handy in your copy of the Standards of Perfection.  Also look at the weight of your rabbit in comparison to a growth chart to see if your kit will likely make weight to register and show, because even if you don’t want to show, it is most responsible to breed only quality rabbits, and strive to improve the breed.  There are plenty of homes in the world for the less than perfect animal, but when breeding, please be responsible about it.

There are other giant breeds, that are separate now, but must have been interbred at some point-- Giant Angoras and Checkered (broken) Giants.  the Giant rabbits are really wonderful.

AT Appalachian Rain we specialize in English Angora, and we also raise Mini Rex and have a few Holland Lops.

We do currently have rabbits for sale, including Flemish Giant, English Angora,  English Angora Kits., and Mini Rex Charlies,  call or email if you are interested.