This message is from: Mary Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
After reading the posts on eye color, I'll add my 2cents worth. We own Line, the white dun mare that Jean Ernest refers to. Her eyes are not what I would call "golden" - rather they are light brown with large, dark pupils. None of the offspring we have had from her have golden eyes. They all have dark brown eyes. All are brown duns and are from the same brown dun stallion, Rusten. To my knowledge I have not seen any of their offspring (her grandsons and granddaughters) with light colored eyes either. Maybe the light - or golden - eyes come from the stallion Bjutind 1697, who is Stella's sire. The horse that Jean Gayle refers to, Chance, is a Quad-L bred gelding. He is brown dun and has what I would call light brown eyes - not quite as light as Line's, but definitely not dark brown like you usually see in Fjords. I believe his dam is Orianna, if I remember correctly, so his sire may be Rorik rather than Quad'L usual sire, Rusten. I never noticed what color eyes Rorik has, but I think I would have noticed if they were light. Chance's eyes are not really all that startling, unless you are used to a horse with really dark eyes. Mary, in soggy Washington. == Mary Thurman Raintree Farms [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
