Blue-eyed palomino??

[danielle:>]

I was searching online for cute palomino pictures, as you do, and came across this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v662/horseymadgirl/strangeblueyedpalomino.jpg

Is it usual for palomino's to have blue eyes? I just had never seen one before, so thought it was pretty weird. Is it against the colour guidelines or anything?

[danielle:>]

Sorry, have just realised how small that pic is, you can hardly see his eye. Here's a bigger one:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v662/horseymadgirl/strangeblueyedpalomino.jpg

[claire louise u]

sorry dont know about the eye colour but lovely palomino, have you seen the ones in the shulay stud site, fabulas palominos,

[danielle:>]

Sorry, have just realised how small that pic is, you can hardly see his eye. Here's a bigger one:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v662/horseymadgirl/strangeblueyedpalomino.jpg

Okay, thsi is getting really annoying. That was like my sixth attempt at getting the picture re-sized, and it just keeps coming up the same. I'm getting really frustrated now. I'll just leave it, and if you really need the pic bigger, I will try again. :( :( :(

[chev]

Palominos have dark eyes. Some will have one or two blue eyes for other reasons but it's not associated with the palomino colour. If you want to register a palomino with the UK society it must have two dark eyes (but they register on colour, rather than genetics so that doesn't mean it's not a palomino just because it has blue eyes).

One cream gene on chestnut gives palomino; it doesn't cause blue eyes. Two cream genes on chestnut gives cremello; they always have blue eyes.

I have a feeling the pic you posted isn't just a palomino though - it looks very much like what's called gold ivory champagne. The champagne gene can cause shades very similar to palomino, but has amber eyes not dark. But if a champagne horse carries cream as well, then blue eyes are more common.

[galadriel]

Or if a palomino is sabino--or paint--and hence has a broadly white face, he might have a blue eye or two as a result of the white face (nothing to do with being palomino or not).

I'm with Chev, though; that guy doesn't look palomino. He darkens going down his legs, which would suggest that his base color is not chestnut. Chestnut lightens or stays the same color down the legs. And palomino is a horse with a base color of chestnut, and one cream gene.

[danielle:>]

Ahh right, I get it now. Thanks for explaining it :)

[Perfect Pony]

one of my friends sisters had a palomino called chino who had 2 blue eyes!