Interesting eye color question

[maherwoman]

Thank you! I love my babies so much!

That sounds really interesting...one pink, one blue...

rabbit_whisperer wrote:

adorable rabbit,I had a rabbit with one pink eye and one blue eye.

 

[naturestee]

Okay, here's Sprite's right eye if you can see the pic:

I just took this pic today. I've been wanting better pictures of their eyes anyway, because that blue is so beautiful! You usually have to be pretty close to notice the brown.

 

[pamnock]

Wow! Super photo! In the case of Dwarf Hotots, the blue color is caused by the Dutch marking gene.

Pam

 

[maherwoman]

Oh, Naturestee...I can kinda see that the upper right hand diagonal section is brown...is that right?

Wow...I thought this was unusual...I guess it's not as much as I thought!

I felt like this when I learned that it wasn't too unusual for kitties to have two different-colored eyes! LOL!!

P.S. Bunny eyes are so pretty, aren't they? What beauties!!

 

[RedDiamondDawn]

My bunny has half and half eye color as well. I thought they weren’t done changing but they didn’t change.

 

[SableSteel]

That eye looks like it's probably the result of the vienna gene. Likely that rabbit had some blue-eyed-white ancestor.

 

[RedDiamondDawn]

That eye looks like it's probably the result of the vienna gene. Likely that rabbit had some blue-eyed-white ancestor.

Mom has brown eyes, her dad had blue eyes.

 

[RedDiamondDawn]

That eye looks like it's probably the result of the vienna gene. Likely that rabbit had some blue-eyed-white ancestor.

Dad is white BEW with blue eyes. Mom is Chestnut Agouti with brown eyes.

 

[Nancy McClelland]

Heterochromia. We had one that was Vienna marked and Black Otter. HIS EYES WERE WHAT WAS REALLY STRIKING--RIGHT WAS 1/3 BLUE, 2/3 BROWN and his left was 1/3 brown and 2/3 blue. I've seen some with 2 different color eys, but he was the first with 2 colors in both eyes.

 

[RobertR]

View attachment 42058 View attachment 42059 My bunny has half and half eye color as well. I thought they weren’t done changing but they didn’t change.

This is sectoral heterochromia, a result of the Vienna (v) gene. Most of the time brown is on the top. Blue can also come from the Chinchilla (cchd) gene and give a blue/brown speckled look (some call this mottled or marbled). The diluted (dd) gene can also give blue cast looking eye.

 

[Bunnynanny]

Hi. New member here.
Our Californian REW doe mated with a brown mini lop. 4white babies all have REW eyes. One of the tan babies has 1brown eye and one blue metallic looking eye...the other tan baby has both brown eyes..is there something wrong with the blue eye.

 

[SableSteel]

Yes, that's not normal. The eye shouldn't be cloudy like that. Could be a sign of glaucoma or some other disease. Eyes are complicated; not really something that you want to mess with without much experience. If you're really concerned or it looks like its causing the rabbit pain you should take it to the vet.

You might want to start a new thread about it as well, this one is from 2009.

 

[Nancy McClelland]

Can't tell by the pic, but there have been several with different color eyes--no problems-- there's even a couple of movie stars with different color eyes. If the eye is cloudy looking and not the color around the opening then you have a problem--glaucoma. Our avatar bunny was blind for the last 4 years of her life but did just fine.