Eye color changed! Yellow to Clear Blue!

[TheEggCollecter]

I am not sure where to post this thread so hopefully it is fine here. I recently (within the past two months) got five Rhodebar pullers. A imported breed new to the U.S. There is not much written up about these breeds so it is hard to predict anything happening within the breed.

All of the pullets had normal colored eyes. Brown, yellow, and organge like colors. There was no sign of abnormal eye colors until last week. One of the pullets eyes started get cloudy and I was worried that she was getting sick, but after a couple more days there was no symptoms. Then overnight her eyes lost its cloudiness and were a clear blue.

They are very pretty but I am wondering if this is something serious that I'm not seeing, I looked up chickens with blue eyes or chickens with an eye color change but all I got was pictures of people's chickens with edited blue dots for eyes lol. Anyone have this happen before?

 

[Ozarkhomesteader]

wow, never had this happen, but...wow. Very pretty! i hope its not something bad! I am curious, so and subscribing to heard the answers

 

[TheEggCollecter]

wow, never had this happen, but...wow. Very pretty! i hope its not something bad! I am curious, so and subscribing to heard the answers  

Yeah I agree it's pretty but like you said I hope it isn't something serious?! Does anyone else have any input?

 

[whitney556]

Wow!I have no input here, but that is pretty amazing. Hope everything is fine with your chickie, maybe it could just be something genetic?

 

[SarahLadd]

It's been 7 years. Did her eyes stay blue? They look just like my australian shepherd's eyes. Remarkable.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

I know this is old, but just so the info is out there, that’s Ocular Mareks. Symptoms include discoloration of the iris and shrinking and misshapen pupils, as clearly seen here.

 

[Midnightsun88888]

I am not sure where to post this thread so hopefully it is fine here. I recently (within the past two months) got five Rhodebar pullers. A imported breed new to the U.S. There is not much written up about these breeds so it is hard to predict anything happening within the breed.

All of the pullets had normal colored eyes. Brown, yellow, and organge like colors. There was no sign of abnormal eye colors until last week. One of the pullets eyes started get cloudy and I was worried that she was getting sick, but after a couple more days there was no symptoms. Then overnight her eyes lost its cloudiness and were a clear blue.

They are very pretty but I am wondering if this is something serious that I'm not seeing, I looked up chickens with blue eyes or chickens with an eye color change but all I got was pictures of people's chickens with edited blue dots for eyes lol. Anyone have this happen before?

Well if its npt a disease, eye color changes are related to genetic mutations. Many animals & eople can be born with blue eyes, but then they change to their adult color after a few months. I actually have a unique mutation in my genes where my baby blue eyes stayed blue until I hit puberty in middle school & had my 1st period & then my hormones caused my eyes to change to green. They sometimes vary in color from blue to green hues, but have always been mostly green since. I wonder if this chicken was 8 months to a year old when this happened?