Common Rabbit Conformation Faults-DEPTH

Depth of a rabbit is a term used to describe a measurement from the topline of the body down to the lower part of the body.  A rabbit 'lacking depth' appears flatter to the ground than one with good depth. 

Make sure your rabbit is posed properly before you evaluate his or her depth- we have pages on How to Pose Holland Lops and How to Pose Polish Rabbits, or refer to your Standard of Perfection if you've got another breed!

Below, I am using French Lops to demonstrate the depth of a rabbit because this breed makes it easy to see the differences in depth so easily. As you can see from the pictures - rabbit #1 is lacking depth and rabbit #2 has excellent depth. 

If rabbit #1 had his head down further, he would look like he had a bit more depth, but he still would not have enough depth to matter on the show table!

Finished reading?  Look to the left for links to more pages in our Showing Rabbits web segment!