EYE COLOUR IN PIGS
DARK SHADES PREFERRED BY MANY SCIENTIFIC SUPPORT LACKING Many breeders, supported by Darwin's statement that blue-eyed cats are generally supposed to be deaf, have a decided prejudice against iight colour in the eyes of livestock such as pigs, dogs, cats and even horses. The contention is that light-coloured: eyes are invariably linked with some constitutional weakness which may.: through hereditary concentration and transference, become lethal in a family j or type. No doubt for this reason Aus- j tralian judges of pigs are displaying aj definite preference for eye colour in the i relative order of: dark, hazel, blue and So far as present research in this direction has gone, no valid grounds for the objection to pale-coloured eyes have been discovered, hence this characteristic cannot be looked upon as a serious fault, but as it seems to lower the value of the animal in the opinion of a large number of buyers, pale colouring in pigs’ eyes must be considered a drawback which should
not be encouraged by selective mat-
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 9 December 1938, Page 7
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175EYE COLOUR IN PIGS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 9 December 1938, Page 7
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