Green-eyed chickens?

[shanadienne]

Ten years ago we got a bunch of chicks from a hatchery (probably Ideal but I am not 100% certain), twenty of which were Australorps, or supposed to be. They were all black chickens but their shape (and occasionally size) varied considerably. Nora was one of the ones that did not look like what Australorps are apparently supposed to look like.

Nora had black feathers and was standard sized, but she held her tail almost like a Japanese bantam does, and her eyes were light green for her entire adult life. (They were dark when she was a chick, as is normal in my experience.)

I want another green-eyed chicken.

I don't know if she was really an Australorp, I don't know if it's even healthy for chickens to have green eyes (Nora lived a few years before being carried off by a fox), and I don't know if it's caused by a gene or some environmental factor, but does anyone have information about green-eyed chickens? Have you ever had one? Is there a breed that has green eyes as a rule? Is there a gene for it? I googled this and found a couple threads here about green eyes but I didn't find any real answers.

 

[CayugaLover]

hi! i, also, have a green eyed chicken.

he is a cornish bantam rooster. i don't know if green eyes are typical for the breed, but... one can hope! [the chest scar is a regular for cornish bantams, too.]

 

[jeannie63]

I was just looking on-line because I have a black and white chicken with green eyes and her legs are really pale and the other two like her have orange eyes and orange legs? I am new at this chicken thing so I do not know if this is normal or not?
She seams healthy and eats a lot but she just seams a bit different ant than the rest of them?

Any answers out there?

 

[Violetsfeathers]

I have a mixed breed chicken that has green eyes, her brother had green eyes too. Both their parents has orange eyes. Her mom was a mottled Cochin bantam and her dad was a buff brahma bantam.

 

[1rstout]

Ten years ago we got a bunch of chicks from a hatchery (probably Ideal but I am not 100% certain), twenty of which were Australorps, or supposed to be. They were all black chickens but their shape (and occasionally size) varied considerably. Nora was one of the ones that did not look like what Australorps are apparently supposed to look like.

Nora had black feathers and was standard sized, but she held her tail almost like a Japanese bantam does, and her eyes were light green for her entire adult life. (They were dark when she was a chick, as is normal in my experience.)

I want another green-eyed chicken.

I don't know if she was really an Australorp, I don't know if it's even healthy for chickens to have green eyes (Nora lived a few years before being carried off by a fox), and I don't know if it's caused by a gene or some environmental factor, but does anyone have information about green-eyed chickens? Have you ever had one? Is there a breed that has green eyes as a rule? Is there a gene for it? I googled this and found a couple threads here about green eyes but I didn't find any real answers.

I have some baby chicks that came from my americanos chickens and half gray blue egger roo the chick is beautiful and she mostly blue-black feathers with mittens white on head and throat to tail wing feathers mostly black with a little white and red and on her back towards the tail is mostly red with black feathers and her eyes are green as grass these chicks all came from blue green eggs

 

[FlyingC]

I have 10 "7/8ths Ameracaunas, and all look like black ameracaunas except all their eyes ate green, not bay red. Would love to trade a few for some wyandottes.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

hi! i, also, have a green eyed chicken.

he is a cornish bantam rooster. i don't know if green eyes are typical for the breed, but... one can hope! [the chest scar is a regular for cornish bantams, too.]

Cornish bantams should have greenish yellow eyes


Also not a scar, just a lack of feather because of the breast size