Eye Coloration (not sure if this is under the right forum)

[RockyToggRanch]

Well, I'm not a goat, but I often refer to my husband as one. We both have brown eyes. His mother has blue eyes and my father has blue eyes. Our 3rd child has BRIGHT blue eyes.

 

[RainySunday]

Well, I'm not a goat, but I often refer to my husband as one. We both have brown eyes. His mother has blue eyes and my father has blue eyes. Our 3rd child has BRIGHT blue eyes.

Yes, but blue eyes in humans is recessive. In goat's it's dominant.

 

[Ariel301]

I raise purebred, full size LaManchas. They do not have the genetics for blue eyes, but my babies are all born with eyes that have that gray-blue in them. They fade to the normal color within a few weeks. I WISH I could get full size Munchies with those gorgeous blue eyes though!

 

[AlaskanShepherdess]

I have a ND doe that is not blue eyed, yet gave birth to a blue eyed doeling. I remember the breeder talking about it coming from my doe, and not the buck.

Today I was given a blue eyed cream colored doe. She is too gorgeous!

 

[PattySh]

She is adorable, but doesn't have blue eyes. That color will change, blue eyes in goats are quite vivid (sky blue)immediately.

 

[Livinwright Farm]

I will say, that I don't believe that she is or will be BLUE-EYED, but that she might be the "marbled blue" or partial blue, as some goats do retain the dual coloration... as Kate even mentioned. Also, I have not said that her dual coloration is BLUE and not sure how that got misconstrued, but that any goat having even a small dot of blue(heterozygous blue in goats, homozygous blue recessive in humans) is considered as genetically blue-eyed where goats are concerned.

 

[helmstead]

She is not genetically blue eyed or marble eyed or partially blue eyed or anything...sorry. I think we've all explained how and why, believe what you will.

 

[Livinwright Farm]

Kate, now I am utterly confused... you yourself said that your buck, D Lux, was born with the ice blue inner and brown outer rings that he retained(though the brown got thicker)... why then, are you so adamant that Olivia won't retain even the slightest shred of hers?
Like I mentioned when I first posted the link, the pics I have on our Fb page are not the best shots of the coloration. I still have not been able to get one that shows the true coloration/shading of colors. I believe that perhaps my calling the inner color of Olivia's eyes blue/grey, might be confusing matters a little here too. And for that I appologize, as I am still new to what all these colors & patterns are termed as by the show ring crowd.

 

[SDGsoap&dairy]

I'm with Kate on this. Marbled blue eyes are not the same thing as bluish eyes at birth. We had a set of twins born this year with a teal/greenish blue inner iris and both faded to amber. We have a blue eyed does who has pretty extensive marbling, it's a much different blue than the color they have at birth. Kate's buck's sire is blue eyed. Marbled eyes (genetically blue, as has been established) still need a blue eyed parent.

 

[mossyStone]

I have found this post most interesting.....