I hope this is allowed - if it isn't please accept my apologies and delete it. I want to share my experience with not so great and great eye color. I started out with a copper eyed stud. While I dearly love my Spencer and other than eye color he is everything I would want it made it difficult. If I had started out with the correct eye color in my cats, my breeding program would have progressed faster. Let me introduce the first 2 cats I bred - Savannah Rose
who has wonderful green eye color. She is a shaded golden. I bred her with a copper eyed silver, Spencer. Now copper eyes are not allowed in silvers here in the States but in some registries over seas they are called Pewter Persians. Spencer is a silver from a silver (green eyes) and cream (copper eyes)breeding.
That breeding between Savannah Rose and Spencer produced various eye colors. First a silver girl, Lottie who has washed out yellowy eye color.
Tabitha, a brown tabby with correct copper eye color.
Next is Zippy, a golden. Her eye color, while better than her sister Lotties, still isn't good.
Solidago, another golden. He had wonderful green eye color.
I bred Lottie to another boy, a golden named Boo.
From that breeding (an attempt to fix the eye color) I got these cats:
This is a silver boy that the owner named Boo-Boo. His eye color is so-so.
His sister, Mimi who has nice eye color. and lastly from that litter, Jack.
The best advice to new breeders that I can give is to learn the breed standard BEFORE you buy a cat. You can save yourself time and lots of money by getting a correct start. Spencer was bought even though I knew the breed standard and knew the chances of him having green eyes were only 50/50, but he was just too good otherwise. So do as I say not as I do!
who has wonderful green eye color. She is a shaded golden. I bred her with a copper eyed silver, Spencer. Now copper eyes are not allowed in silvers here in the States but in some registries over seas they are called Pewter Persians. Spencer is a silver from a silver (green eyes) and cream (copper eyes)breeding.
That breeding between Savannah Rose and Spencer produced various eye colors. First a silver girl, Lottie who has washed out yellowy eye color.
Tabitha, a brown tabby with correct copper eye color.
Next is Zippy, a golden. Her eye color, while better than her sister Lotties, still isn't good.
Solidago, another golden. He had wonderful green eye color.
I bred Lottie to another boy, a golden named Boo.
From that breeding (an attempt to fix the eye color) I got these cats:
This is a silver boy that the owner named Boo-Boo. His eye color is so-so.
His sister, Mimi who has nice eye color. and lastly from that litter, Jack.
The best advice to new breeders that I can give is to learn the breed standard BEFORE you buy a cat. You can save yourself time and lots of money by getting a correct start. Spencer was bought even though I knew the breed standard and knew the chances of him having green eyes were only 50/50, but he was just too good otherwise. So do as I say not as I do!
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