Do Dilutes...

[Bad Habit]

Do dilutes always have those grey coloured eye?

My blue tort vlop doe has dark brown eyes. I noticed this because all of her kits have dark brown eyes, so I checked hers. Dark brown.

Does that mean she's not actually a blue tort? Or am I wrong on the eye colour, since I thought dilutes always had those grey-ish eyes.

 

[MamaMandy]

No, they don't always. They're supposed to have grayish eyes, but I've heard that eye color and fur color isn't genetically linked. It's just something else to work for...correct eye color with the correct fur color. I'm sure your doe is truly a blue tort...she just doesn't have the correct eye color.

 

[Dood]

My baby chins always have blueish grey eyes but as adults the can go dark brown or stay blueish or somewhere in between. The brown eyes are preferred by judges.

My blue chins (AKA squirrel) keep their blueish eyes but they are getting a double whammy with the dilute and dark shaded genes.

 

[akane]

Sometimes they come out with dark eyes. In most breeds it's a fault at shows.

 

[skysthelimit]

Agreed. yes they should but no they don't always.

 

[Bad Habit]

Shoot. I bet if a dilute has dark eyes, that means they're more likely to have kits with dark eyes and dilute.

 

[Kyle@theWintertime]

Depends. Breezy had BEAUTIFUL blue eyes...as a younger doe. This summer they've slowly browned a little. By next year I expect they'll be brown.

Plus her coat has never recovered from having kits so she'll never see a show table again. That's fine though.

Just watch your kits...if they are BORN brown, they won't turn blue.