Violet eyes

[Matthew d]

Why am I seeing more and more violet eyes in my birds,is it a positive or negative

[king]

Why am I seeing more and more violet eyes in my birds,is it a positive or negative

Eye colour just like feather colour is genetic. You can't breed a different eye colour if your birds don't have the genes to produce it. To produce different eye colours in your birds you should try to pair birds of a different feather colour AND eye colour.

Blue cheq is probably the most common colour of racing pigeons. If you pair cheq to cheq you wash that colour out over generations, and these birds often end up with washed out pear eyes and start to lose the cheq pattern to the point they start to look like blues.

Is it a positive or negative? If the birds are winning then it's not a negative. But if you want to enrich both feather & eye colour within your loft bring in pigeons of a different colour to the ones you already have.

[Spieker-Loft]

Any chance of a picture of a "Violet" eye? i have never heard of it so im curious what it would look like

[Bowbroom]

An eminent very successful fancier during a late night conversation about eye sign theory in a hotel bar at Blackpool once told me that after giving it a lot of thought over the years that he had decided that as long as his birds had two of them one on either side of their heads then that would satisfy him.
As has been said eye colour is determined genetically, when I first started Violet eyes were valued as a sign of breeding potential which of course is balderdash, all the top racers and breeders I have handled over the years had all sorts of eyes the only thing they had in common was that they were clear and bright but that would have been an indicator of health imo

[king]

An eminent very successful fancier during a late night conversation about eye sign theory in a hotel bar at Blackpool once told me that after giving it a lot of thought over the years that he had decided that as long as his birds had two of them one on either side of their heads then that would satisfy him.
As has been said eye colour is determined genetically, when I first started Violet eyes were valued as a sign of breeding potential which of course is balderdash, all the top racers and breeders I have handled over the years had all sorts of eyes the only thing they had in common was that they were clear and bright but that would have been an indicator of health imo

100% agree. Whilst we all like to see a nice rich coloured eye on our birds, the colour really doesn't matter. I've met many so called 'eyesign' experts over the last 50 years, some were very well known in the fancy.. But NONE were known for their racing performances.

[Anthony webster]

I don't like pairing violet eyes to violet eyes ,I know nothing about eye sign but was taught if u pair white to white you breed shxte ,the few lucky pairs iv had that bred lots of top birds had different eyes to each other I didn't pair these ,,these paired together there self n made me look good I was just lucky but I try to put different eyes together, say 10 cocks white eyes 10 hens orange eyes in a section.