Can they have green eyes?

Question

I couldn't find anything that spoke about horse eye color, mainly in Arabians. I was wondering if it was possible for an Arabian, or any horse, to have green eyes. If not, what are the colors that pure Arabs can have?

Answer 1

dont think so but it may be possible.

Answer 2

Ohh I wish that horses could have green eyes. But sadly I think they can have Brown or Blue if your lucky!

Answer 3

http://www.equine-information.com/eye-co...

http://board.horsechannel.com/Topic24687...

Answer 4

Yes, horses can have green eyes, but it's very rare.  It's most commonly associated with rare champagne colored coats.  I've never heard of green eyes occuring in horses that are not champagne colored.  The champagne gene does not exist in purebred Arabians, so I do not think that it's possible for a purebred Arabian to have green eyes.  

The color of a horse's eye is most often determined by the color of the skin around the eye, though this is not a concrete rule.  Horses with dark skin around their eyes generally have  dark brown eyes that appear solid black from a distance.  Champagne colored horses often have amber, hazel, or green eyes because their skin is a mottled pinkish-purple color.  Cremellos, perlinos, and dunalinos have blue eyes, because their skin is pale pink.  Also, horses with a large blaze that overlaps the eye may have blue eyes regardless of the coat color, because the skin under a blaze is always pale pink.  Tobianos, frame overos, splash overos, sabinos, and toveros, often have blue eyes, too, even when they have dark skin around the eyes.  

The sabino gene is found within purebred Arabians, though it's rare.  Such Arabs may have blue eyes, but not green.  However, tobiano, frame overo, splash overo, and tovero do not exist in the purebred Arabian gene pool.  Also, the dun factor, cream gene (responsible for creating true palominos and buckskins, as well as cremellos, perlinos, and dunalinos), and the champagne gene do not exist in the purebred Arabian gene pool.  All purebred Arabians have dark skin regardless of their coat color, and thus they always have dark brown eyes with the few loud sabino Arabians or bald faced individuals as the only exceptions.  

If your Arabian has green or amber eyes, it's a good sign that it's not purebred.

Answer 5

yes they can. its rare but it happens. my friends horses dam had bright almost emerald green eyes. its some weird genetic defect, her dam was a grey and her sire was a cremello she  turned out palamino with green eyes.

Answer 6

My horse has bright blue eyes.  She's a paint mare, sorrel and white with blue eyes.  They're beautiful.  I've never seen green eyes though.

Answer 7

Yep, got a colt with green eyes now, he's a welsh mountain pony but i've seen it in other breeds too, pretty rare though.  I think..........There is a line of horses in america with green eyes and metallic looking coats, some sort of dilute mutation.  Its in a colour genetics book i have, i just cant find it at the moment!

Answer 8

I've seen horses with brown eyes, blue eyes, and hazel eyes, all different types. But never green eyes, I dont think it's possible. If it is, it's probably a one-in-a-million thing.

Answer 9

My family has owned arabs since 1960 and I've worked in an arab show barn and never seen green eyes, only the beautiful black-brown.

Answer 10

horses mainly have brown eyes and sometimes you can get a horse with whats called a wall eye in which the eye is very blue.

Answer 11

light hazel eyed horses and blue eyed ones can look like green eyed horses when in deep green grass around lots of trees and with a quick glance a passerby would swear ihaving seen a green eyed horse. The reflections bouncing make it change colors and also cause some of those"green eyed horses" to have problems with eyesight. We have had a couple blue eyed ones go blind and that is experience.I have ridden a half blind champion jumper that was an albino arabian/appaloosa mixture. with his blue eyes, the reflections of rivers, streams, mud puddles and tents made him think they were jumps we sure went on some wild rides with him spooking all the time and taking off for his imaginary jumps. He wound up going blind in both. As far as other horses, I have seen many appaloosas with blue eyes and few paints too. I am not sure about other purebloodlines as I never seen pure quarter horses with blue eyes.I honestly am not sure if our paint was papered or had part appaloosa. it was long ago. so long ago I don't remember. I'm thinking that if you try researching bloodlines on the computer, you may find that certain pure bloodlines do not have blue eyes in their geneologic make-up. I don't feel like doing so but it might be nice for you to know if you have the time to google it or something. Hahaha bet you didn't expect that answer.=> please don't mind my humor. aloha taz