My gosh Sunshine, that is quite a list...your mom must have gotten so discouraged. Afraid my experience with E-lops is limited to just Raph, so I couldn't offer a whole lot about them.
I did have a few breeders I'd contacted before buying Raph who told me that they either housed their English lops indoors in the winter, or had them in heated barns (these are the breeders who live in colder climates). Was told their ears are just too fragile for the cold temps because of the danger of freezing andfrostbite, as was mentioned. So I wouldn't even attempt to keep Raph outdoors past October.
Just beforebuying Raph though, I had been wondering if the E-lops are a particularly hard breed to keep. There were a good number of breeders advertising online that I'd tried contacting to find a rabbit, but many of them had either gone out of business altogether, or had switched from raising the English lops to another breed instead. Even the breeder I got Raph from got rid of all her E-lops several months after I bought him. So I'm curious as to whether there are more problems surrounding the breed than with other rabbits...:?