Eye colour in liver chestnuts?
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Re: Eye colour in liver chestnuts?
Photos don't really show it, its more noticeable in real life, all the other horses there have very dark eyes, with this one you can clearly see his pupil. So its just something any horse can get? Like some dogs have golden coloured eyes even if they are black? I like it, I like anything that shows contrast in animal colours. He is a Hanoverian.
Body shot.
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Closeup of eye.
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Re: Eye colour in liver chestnuts?
near liver? False liver? :lol:
I'd call it liver. It's enough darker than the average chestnut to need another adjective in there to describe it... if you were missing him and told everyone you were looking for a chestnut they'd have a totally different color in mind.
I have no opinion on the eye color though, which I realize was the real question here!
Re: Eye colour in liver chestnuts?
[quote="Dogrose"]Photos don't really show it, its more noticeable in real life, all the other horses there have very dark eyes, [b]with this one you can clearly see his pupil.[/b] So its just something any horse can get? Like some dogs have golden coloured eyes even if they are black? I like it, I like anything that shows contrast in animal colours. He is a Hanoverian.[/quote]
Jazz is the only horse I've ever had with an eye so dark you could barely make out the pupil.
Re: Eye colour in liver chestnuts?
Thanks for the replies! The pics don't really show how light his eyes are, compared to the other horses there, they are quite noticable in real life.
He wasn't wet. He doesn't have much of a reddish tint in his coat, its sort of a dark yellowy chestnut. He is very pretty but dim, last time I went he had just accidently rolled under a barbed wire fence, scratched his thin skin all down one side and gone wandering on a very busy city road!
Re: Eye colour in liver chestnuts?
This is an interesting subject, and prompted me to ask this question......how many of you can visually tell the difference between a liver chestnut and a smokey black? I ask because my mare looked liver chestnut to my inexperienced eye when I got her but most on here at the time thought her to be a smokey black. :love
Re: Eye colour in liver chestnuts?
Smoky Blacks can look like ordinary Blacks, no problem.
I can tell if a horse [i]looks[/i] Smoky Black rather than Chestnut as easily as I can tell if a horse looks Silver Bay instead of Chestnut.
That does not mean that just because a horse looks Smoky Black that it is, any more than a horse that looks Cremello is not Perlino, the only real way to know is to test.
Re: Eye colour in liver chestnuts?
I have a liver chestnut Morgan stallion that I will check out this weekend... but I don't think his eyes are any different then any other horses... hmmm but we will see :)