question on eye colurs

i have a young ish muff roller cock bird..and i only noticed the other day,that he has 1 dark eye,and the other eye is..well looks sort of pearl.
anyone know why a bird would have 2 different coloured eyes....he didnt have this when i got him as a just fledged bird.

hi birdlady nice to see you on site again, ive seen this before with fancy breeds...but i have no idea why.

has the bird any pied in it ? also it is said that pigeons eyes dont develope fully until a year or two old.......

I too have pieds with odd eyes, one bull eye and one normal coloured.

he is white,with 1 red feather on each wing David.
as i am new to keeping pigeons,can you give me a rough idea Gaz b what a bull eye is (means)

hi birdlady, when you look at a bull eye it gives the impression it is black.....in fact this is just the light reflection on it so they say, you need to look through this black to see a normal eye underneith.....a bull eye is no better or no worse than a pearl, red or orange eye....just different, altho some fanciers do like a few bull eyes to pair to certain other types of eye.


if you click on jack barkels site at the top of our home page you will find some very helpful and interesting information.

bull is a dark eye

Bull eye is a very dark, sometimes nutty brown, but has no distinctive alteration in colour like a normal pigeon eye, where you can see all the colours and the distinct iris.
It doesn't affect the bird in any way.

eye colour is important in some breeds of fancy pigeons
same as some racing men go on eye sign or use too not sure if this is still common with the racers

might be of help to you
http://www.angelfire.com/ga/huntleyloft/eye.html

Gaz b wrote:

Bull eye is a very dark, sometimes nutty brown, but has no distinctive alteration in colour like a normal pigeon eye, where you can see all the colours and the distinct iris.
It doesn't affect the bird in any way.

Spot on as always Gary

Great link Steve.

steve b wrote:

might be of help to you
http://www.angelfire.com/ga/huntleyloft/eye.html

Great link Steve like the music also

gary, wheres the link for the petition your doing , cant find it.........

I am still waiting for confirmation that the Government Office are going to allow it to go ahead as they will house it on their epetition website.

it was on a link here on site, have you removed it...? it had your daughters holding the ybs etc.

No mate.

i have never seen a albino or pink eye in a pigeon as i have just seen on here has anyone

No mate, but I think this may just be a trait of the fancy varieties.

thanks for the info,and that was also a very good link.

so the bird i have has 1 pearl eye,and 1 bull eye.going on the eyes i saw on that link...is it more common to have bull eyes on white birds,because i have 2 other white birds,with 1 or 2 dark feathers,and they would both seem to have bull eyes,where most all my others have orange eyes.

thanks again

hi bird lady, yes it is more common to have bull eyes in pied birds............