Do you like this eye?

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Following on from the breed you don't like thread, blue eyes fall into the 'love them or hate them' camp. But what about this one? He only has one like it, the other is brown. Nobody I know has ever seen one like it before. Part brown, part blue.

Do, love it? Hate it?

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yep I think it's pretty cool. I have brown spots in my own blue eyes so it's only fair to appreciate blue blobs in a brown eye :biggrin3:
 
I've seen that before quite a few times - I don't think it's rare.

I don't like it - either the whole eye should be brown or blue, not both! It looks like a cataract to me.
 
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I have one whose eye is blue and brown as well, and I knew a little Welsh A mare with the same thing. I think it looks beautiful :) The only downside is that it makes mine look a little wild until you get close enough to realise that it's a different colour rather than the white of her eye.
 
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It's a shame that the photo doesn't show that's is blue at the top too, kind of swirled in all around. I don't like blue eyes on horses myself, but I loved this one the first time I saw it, and wish he had two like it.
 
We have a retired riding school cob at the yard with this effect - I remember being surprised when I first spotted it. Don't know what causes it though
 
me neither. It's like one of the marbles I used to play with when I was a child. It's not patches, so much as a iridescent swirl, mostly at the top and the bottom. It's almost turquoise in hue.
 
My old sec C had a blue streak through one of her eyes, looked like a lightening bolt, vet once told us it was likely from an old injury!! Since it clearly wasn't an issue for her I'm guessing it was just this kind of colouring after all lol 🙈
 
My Welsh section a has half blue half brown eye. He has limited site in that eye. I used to hate a wall eye when I was younger but don't mind this in him
 
Foxy O said:
My Welsh section a has half blue half brown eye. He has limited site in that eye. I used to hate a wall eye when I was younger but don't mind this in him
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Do you think the sight limitation is connected? Mine seems to see the same with both eyes, I think.
 
I've had several like that including Daisy. I like it. Have had a few sheep dogs with part blue eyes which I ran in trials and was often asked, one memorable time when I had just won with her, if she was blind :D
 
FfionWinnie said:
I've had several like that including Daisy. I like it. Have had a few sheep dogs with part blue eyes which I ran in trials and was often asked, one memorable time when I had just won with her, if she was blind :D
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Because blind trials dogs know where the sheep are by smell, right :D


I have a friend who always chooses her working collies with one blue eye and one brown eye if she can find a good one. She had three accidental puppies from two really well bred dogs (so no disaster :-) earlier this year. Not one of them had one blue eye, when both parents did. She was so annoyed !
 
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Because blind trials dogs know where the sheep are by smell, right :D


I have a friend who always chooses her working collies with one blue eye and one brown eye if she can find a good one. She had three accidental puppies from two really well bred dogs (so no disaster :-) earlier this year. Not one of them had one blue eye, when both parents did. She was so annoyed !
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It was my amazing handling techniques which made up for her inability to see the sheep, the hill ground, the massive ditches and other hazards :D

Her daughter will have a litter in the next 24 hours. First pups I've bred for 5/6 years.
 
Very pretty :)

used to know a cob with a big white face who had brown/dark eyes that were flecked with blue - not like this with a blue part, but in the brown of his eye he had a dark blue, with flecks of light blue. Will try and find a picture.

At the yard I am at now, there used to be another coloured cob who had a half blue, half brown eye. It was nearly perfectly divided in half. There's another gelding who has a mostly blue eye, that's flecked with brown and has brown patches, like a reverse of your boy! (I have no idea of his breeding, but he doesn't look cobby and is a massive big bay)
 
ycbm said:
Because blind trials dogs know where the sheep are by smell, right :D


I have a friend who always chooses her working collies with one blue eye and one brown eye if she can find a good one. She had three accidental puppies from two really well bred dogs (so no disaster :-) earlier this year. Not one of them had one blue eye, when both parents did. She was so annoyed !
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My springer has one blue eye and one brown eye.
 
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