1. Tort. It is a tort, not a torte. The word 'tort' is short for 'tortoise', which is the most common variety of Holland Lops.
2. Dwarf. There is no such thing as a 'Lionhead Dwarf' or a 'Dwarf Holland Lop'. Dwarf is only part of the breed name in three breeds: the Netherland Dwarf the Dwarf Hotot, and the Dwarf Papillon.
3. Fluffle. A while back there was this meme that said that a group of rabbits is called a 'fluffle'. This isn't true (although it's kind of cute). A group of rabbits is a herd, or even a colony, depending on the setting.
4. Champion lines. There is no strict definition of champion lines, but the phrase can often be used as a marketing tool by irresponsible breeders who want to make quick $$$. They do this to try and explain unfairly high prices for low quality animals.
5. Bunny. A bunny means a rabbit. Bunny is not the word for a baby rabbit. A baby rabbit is called a kit.
6. Papered. Papered usually means the rabbit has a pedigree. The word 'papered' is yet another marketing tool often used by irresponsible pet breeders that want to make more money. It means that technically the rabbit has known ancestors. Pedigreed is generally considered the proper word when referring to rabbits, not papered.
7. Carry. Carry means that a rabbit is heterozygous at a specific locus, and is a 'carrier' of the recessive gene. Just because an animal has a certain color in its pedigree does not mean it is necessarily a carrier. There are certain colors that a rabbit cannot carry. For example, a black rabbit cannot carry chestnut agouti. A REW cannot carry Pointed White. A Lilac cannot carry Blue. These are all genetic impossibilities.
8. Inbreed. Inbreeding generally means that a rabbit was bred to its sibling or another close relative. Some people also use it to describe breeding a rabbit to its sire or dam (although this is often called linebreeding). Inbreeding does not mean that a rabbit is a mutant that's going to be born with seven toes on each foot. Inbreeding is very useful for achieving consistency in your herd.
9. Show quality. Everyone defines show quality differently, but to me show quality means an animal that I believe will place well on the show table. There are varying degrees of show quality. There are plenty of rabbits that are technically showable (meaning they have no DQs), but that I don't believe are 'show quality'. There are plenty of ugly Holland Lops out there with no DQs that are 'showable'. They are the lowest placers in each class. But are they 'show quality'? I don't think so.
10. Cull. Cull does not mean go to the barn and stab an innocent bunny to death. It means to remove an animal from your herd. This could mean anything from humanely dispatching it to selling a pet to auctioning a nationally winning rabbit. All it means is that you no longer own the rabbit.
2. Dwarf. There is no such thing as a 'Lionhead Dwarf' or a 'Dwarf Holland Lop'. Dwarf is only part of the breed name in three breeds: the Netherland Dwarf the Dwarf Hotot, and the Dwarf Papillon.
3. Fluffle. A while back there was this meme that said that a group of rabbits is called a 'fluffle'. This isn't true (although it's kind of cute). A group of rabbits is a herd, or even a colony, depending on the setting.
4. Champion lines. There is no strict definition of champion lines, but the phrase can often be used as a marketing tool by irresponsible breeders who want to make quick $$$. They do this to try and explain unfairly high prices for low quality animals.
5. Bunny. A bunny means a rabbit. Bunny is not the word for a baby rabbit. A baby rabbit is called a kit.
6. Papered. Papered usually means the rabbit has a pedigree. The word 'papered' is yet another marketing tool often used by irresponsible pet breeders that want to make more money. It means that technically the rabbit has known ancestors. Pedigreed is generally considered the proper word when referring to rabbits, not papered.
7. Carry. Carry means that a rabbit is heterozygous at a specific locus, and is a 'carrier' of the recessive gene. Just because an animal has a certain color in its pedigree does not mean it is necessarily a carrier. There are certain colors that a rabbit cannot carry. For example, a black rabbit cannot carry chestnut agouti. A REW cannot carry Pointed White. A Lilac cannot carry Blue. These are all genetic impossibilities.
8. Inbreed. Inbreeding generally means that a rabbit was bred to its sibling or another close relative. Some people also use it to describe breeding a rabbit to its sire or dam (although this is often called linebreeding). Inbreeding does not mean that a rabbit is a mutant that's going to be born with seven toes on each foot. Inbreeding is very useful for achieving consistency in your herd.
9. Show quality. Everyone defines show quality differently, but to me show quality means an animal that I believe will place well on the show table. There are varying degrees of show quality. There are plenty of rabbits that are technically showable (meaning they have no DQs), but that I don't believe are 'show quality'. There are plenty of ugly Holland Lops out there with no DQs that are 'showable'. They are the lowest placers in each class. But are they 'show quality'? I don't think so.
10. Cull. Cull does not mean go to the barn and stab an innocent bunny to death. It means to remove an animal from your herd. This could mean anything from humanely dispatching it to selling a pet to auctioning a nationally winning rabbit. All it means is that you no longer own the rabbit.