quick winter white question..

[mangoandmimi]

hi,
can winter whites have red eyes? i thought not but just curious
thanks

[wofunny]

No, Pure WW cant.

Hybrids can though

[SnickersTheFirst]

As Wofunny said, pure WWs will not have red eyes.

[mangoandmimi]

Ehh just saw an add on gumtree advertising ww but i noticed that the pearls had red eyes lol :L thanks!x

[Inuk]

Hm, sorry but you're wrong !
There is a color, we call it « fauve aux yeux rouges » in French (literally : red eyed fawn) and it has red eyes :

This is a wild colour, genetic code pp. You can get pearl red eyed fawn, and they have red eyes too !
More pictures here, on a Dutch breeder's website.

[wofunny]

That is a Cambells not a Winter White

[SnickersTheFirst]

I was going to say isn't that a Campbells, we certainly don't get that colour here if it's a WW.

[Inuk]

It is definitely a winter white. Actually, they come from a Campbell/WW cruising (is that the word ?) that was performed in the 1980s. The breeders managed to have pure red eyed fawn WWs only after over 20 generations and started to give them to other breeders only seven years after the first pure red eyed fawn WW was born. Still, they are considered as "pure" now. Here in France, we can have red eyed fawn WW, although most of the time they are just hybrids.

[mangoandmimi]

Wow that is so cool! we only have like 3 colours (pearl sapphire ag.) :P

[Inuk]

One of the very current colours we can find here too (and now only from breeders, but also often from petshops) is "mandarine" (tangerine) :



I love them ! :P
And sometimes even black or camel (sapphire + "mandarine").