Types of Mini Rex Rabbits

Mini Rex rabbits have the same velvety soft fur as their larger Rex cousins, but weigh between 3 and 4.5 lbs. There are 17 recognized varieties of mini Rex rabbit, according to the American Rabbit Breeders Association.

  1. Self (Solid Colors)

    • Several types of mini Rex rabbits come in solid colors, meaning that their entire body is covered in only one color without any shading or rogue hairs. Recognized varieties are black, blue, chocolate, lilac and white. White mini Rexes can either be blue-eyed white (pure white coat with blue eyes) or red-eyed white (pure white coat with reddish-pink eyes).

    Broken

    • Any rabbit that is a blend of white and another color, typically brown or black, falls into this category, with the exception of the Himalayan. These mini Rex rabbits typically have colored ears and blotches of color on the back, sides and face interrupted by white. The color should cover 10 to 50 percent of the rabbit's body.

    Himalayan

    • The Himalayan variety of mini Rex has a pure white body with ears, feet, tail and nose colored either black or dark blue. The eyes are typically pink.

    Agouti

    • Agouti refers to fur patterns that uniformly blend more than one color together. There are four recognized mini Rex variations: castor (chestnut brown tipped with black and creamy tan), chinchilla (a mixture of pearl and black tipped with black and pearl white), lynx (fawn-colored coat tipped with lilac and white) and opal (medium blue mixed with gray and white or creamy tan).

    Otter

    • The otter variety of mini Rex can be blue, black, chocolate and lilac colored. The majority of the rabbit's body is a solid color, while the belly, nostrils, eye circles, cheeks, inner ears and bottoms of the feet and underside of the tail are a cream color.

    Red

    • The body surface of this rabbit is a rusty red color while the underside is a deep cream color.

    Shaded

    • The sable point mini Rex has a cream-colored body with sepia brown shading on the nose, ears, feet, legs and tail. The seal variation has the dark sepia brown color on the majority of its body, with lighter brown shading on its flanks, chest and belly. The tortoise variety has a rusty red-orange body that transitions to smoky gray shading on the flanks, head, belly and feet and front of the head. The eyes on all three shaded varieties are brown.