My Chicken Has Blue Eyes - Does Yours?

[alohachickens]

I hatched a chick out that has blue/orange marbled eyes - just like an Aussie dog! I was wondering if anyone else has ever had something like this happen? If so, I would love to see pictures! Please share photos of any blue eyes in chickens. There was an older thread from 2010 about blue eyes in chickens, but the photo links were no longer good, so I could not see the pics.

I took a TON of photos to document this - prepare for photo spam! LOL.


Her right.


Right side.


Left side


Left again.


Right 3/4 view


Front.


Left 3/4 view.


Bright sun.

 

[chickInOhio]

Yes! Mine does!

 

[skyknight29]

My purebred Chocolate Orpington chickens produced 2 chicks (out of 14) that have blue eyes and have speckled feathers. Never seen this before... Here are some pics I took the other other day. They eyes look more green against my green couch but they really are very blue.

 

[gimmie birdies]

I had a rooster with green eyes for a while they eventually went normal colored.

He was cochin bantam/LO/and blue isbar.

 

[CEOBrown]

A couple of my ameraucana's have blue eyes. It's almost creepy... And like they're wearing teeny colored contacts hahaha.

 

[Wainbowmudd]

She’s only 6 weeks so I don’t know if they will change but I love her eyes

 

[It_is_I_Rae]

I've never had a chicken with blue eyes but I used to have an Easter egger hen with the most gorgeous hazel eyes.

This was Penny. Unfortunately she passed unexpectedly last year but she was one of the prettiest chickens I've ever owned.

 

[Tami2]

Hi
I have 3 chicks with blue eyes. 2 Easter Eggers & a Plymouth Barred Rock.

 

[shazzca]

I hatched 5 Ameraucana chicks 5 weeks ago, and all 5 have blue eyes.. is this normal..? I've never had blue eyed chickens before...

 

[sjango]

I'm curious. If this is a mutation, it should be looked into! This gene is not documented if it's genetic. I wonder if it's linked to dilution in the skin/feathers like it often is in dogs? Either way those of you with the blue eyed birds should do some dominance tests and see if you can get it to breed true after a few generations. This would be very exciting if it were a newer gene.