Dun Eyes - Eye Colour in duns

[Rebecca]

We have several dun animals and they all have light eyes - which I assume is due to the same dilution that gives them the dun colour. So never had a problem with telling the difference between dun and red - until today. We have a 2 day old red bull calf - very red, pink nose etc. BUT he has the light eyes I associate with the duns. Now both parents carry dun because both have dun dams. The bull is red and the heifer black. Her dam carries red so not suprising she has inherited the gene. I am wondering if our little red bull also carries 2 dun genes - obviously because he is red they are not expressed in his coat colour, but maybe they are showing up in his eye colour? Any ideas? Have never had eyes this colour in any of our red calves before.

He is destine for the dinner table so this is really just a curiosity.

[wagra dexters]

From my last lesson I gathered that dun couldn't effect red, only black, but every time I think I've got my head around colour something new crops up and I'm wrong again.
Margaret.