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Blue eyes
Submitted by CatiAult on April 20, 2010 - 10:55pmAm curious to know how often blue eyed puppies show up in our breed. I have had one in 11 yrs of breedings...the left eye was a beautiful baby blue. There were no blue eyes for at least 3 generations back on either the mom's or dad's side. Don't know about any farther back. The blue eye could have been just a fluke because this puppy was strange from day 1.
Do both parents have to have this trait in their pedigree someplace?
Anyone else admitting to having blue eyes? Please don't give the parents' names.
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thanks for the replies
Guess there isn't all that many blue eyes out there after all.
Re: Blue eyes
It is not known in humans or dogs how the one eye blue and one brown eye is inherited. Evidently it is different than if both eyes were of the same color.
If both eyes are the same color, it is apparently a different mode of inheritance.
I have had 3 blue eyes in 40 years. Two of them had one blue and one brown.
One had two blue. First time I have ever seen that except for in a color poster once.
The two blue eyes were not of my breeding.
One of the split eyes was an outcross breeding between one of my bitches and a sire from England.
The other split eye was a breeding between a bitch who was half my breeding and whose sire was half my breeding.
No way to trace it, as I am quite certain no one breeds the blue eyes once they get them. At least I would hope they don't
I have not experienced it in any of the line or inbreedings that I have done.
I am not sure how it works genetically. But in the big scheme of things, it is just one issue that could make a dog a pet. I don't think in this day and age it is so taboo anymore as it seems now so many people get them.. or the internet has allowed people to share that they have them.
Back when we got our first one we were horrified.
Now, all I am is disapointed.. mainly because it automatically eliminates the dog from being a show prospect.
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Cati
Blue eyes are a recessive gene..I am pretty sure both sets of parents have to carry the the gene and have it line up just right..
Kelly
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i have seen 3
all from different breeder, 2 had the same sire. The 3rd im not sure of 1/2 the pedigree, i know the other 1/2 and have not seen anything in that side.
One of the bitches i sold was breed and was told one of the puppies hand 1/2 a blue eye. That breeding went back to the pedigree of the sire above.
Vicky,
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