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Post by Penny @ Just Dandy on Jun 8, 2021 8:16:57 GMT -5
I'm curious too now! I wonder what the most frequent eye color is in the PC!! You should start a thread about it! I'd count mine just for that In the Unexpected Preferences thread, I got curious and counted up all the different coat colors, eye colors, ear types, etc. to see if I had any "favorites" I hadn't been aware of, and found that even though I consider green to be my favorite eye color, I actually have more petz with blue eyes!
lobb and I got to wondering what the most frequent eye color is in the PC, and at their suggestion, I thought I'd make a thread for it! Among your bred (not hexed or brexed), original breed crew, what is the most frequent eye color?
Obviously a better way to do this would be with the actual numbers than a poll (if someone with only 5 petz in their crew has 3 orange-eyed petz, orange would surge ahead even though there are only three petz counted towards its total), so if you're feeling industrious, post the actual numbers down below! I'll include a running total so we can see which eye colors by the numbers are most popular in the PC!
Running Total last update from Xoops's post
Gray: 41
Cherry: 23
Orange: 46
Brown: 31
Tan: 48
Steel: 75
Slothy: 42
Green: 97
Blue: 356
Aqua: 22
Black: 16
Pink: 72
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Post by Penny @ Just Dandy on Jun 8, 2021 8:17:12 GMT -5
A list for my crew:
Gray: 1 Cherry: 10 Orange: 9 Brown: 3 Tan: 2 Steel: 0 Slothy: 2 Green: 15 Blue: 31 Aqua: 0 Black: 5 Pink: 4
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Post by silverfish on Jun 8, 2021 9:00:18 GMT -5
I have 99 cats and they are all on my website if you really want to count them accurately haha... But a rough estimate:
35 gold/tan 20 blue 3 or so with odd eyes (gold and blue) 15 green 10 copper/orange 5 teal/aqua 2 grey 1 cherry
A lot of this has to do with the PKC breed standards for Oshies... Gold and copper are permitted for most colours. Blue for cats with high white. And green for silvers. But copper (60s) didn't used to be allowed so a lot of my cats had gold (100s) eyes.
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Post by Penny @ Just Dandy on Jun 8, 2021 9:06:17 GMT -5
I have 99 cats and they are all on my website if you really want to count them accurately haha... But a rough estimate: 35 gold/tan 20 blue 3 or so with odd eyes (gold and blue) 15 green 10 copper/orange 5 teal/aqua 2 grey 1 cherry A lot of this has to do with the PKC breed standards for Oshies... Gold and copper are permitted for most colours. Blue for cats with high white. And green for silvers. But copper (60s) didn't used to be allowed so a lot of my cats had gold (100s) eyes. Rough estimate is good enough for me! I don't think any scientific journal would accept a paper on the popularity of Petz eye colors lol I don't show on PKC so I forgot about the breed standards; I wonder if that's going to contribute to a lot of the more popular eye colors!
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Post by silverfish on Jun 8, 2021 9:20:51 GMT -5
I have 99 cats and they are all on my website if you really want to count them accurately haha... But a rough estimate: 35 gold/tan 20 blue 3 or so with odd eyes (gold and blue) 15 green 10 copper/orange 5 teal/aqua 2 grey 1 cherry A lot of this has to do with the PKC breed standards for Oshies... Gold and copper are permitted for most colours. Blue for cats with high white. And green for silvers. But copper (60s) didn't used to be allowed so a lot of my cats had gold (100s) eyes. Rough estimate is good enough for me! I don't think any scientific journal would accept a paper on the popularity of Petz eye colors lol I don't show on PKC so I forgot about the breed standards; I wonder if that's going to contribute to a lot of the more popular eye colors! I think a lot of people keep their PKC show pets and general PC 'crew' separate so maybe it won't skew things that much! It's also interesting to me that I often hex pets for other people with different eye colours than the ones I hex or adopt for myself. Like if you look at all the faces in my signature, only 3 of those are actually mine. The rest have moved on to new homes (but I hexed them). The three that are mine have tan, blue, and green eyes... Same as the top 3 colours in my crew... But I probably send out pets with blue eyes more frequently because I perceive that there's a preference for them... So now I'm also wondering what peoples' favourite eye colours are... And also if other people do the same as me and tend to hex pets with more 'exotic' eye colours specifically because they know they are going to other people.
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Post by midnightwolf on Jun 8, 2021 10:44:15 GMT -5
Gray: 19 Cherry: 5 Orange: 6 Brown: 21 Tan: 1 Steel: 66 Slothy: 21 Green: 42 Blue: 134 Aqua: 8 Black: 10 Pink: 22 i like blue. Alright CatCreature , your turn.
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Post by Penny @ Just Dandy on Jun 8, 2021 11:50:13 GMT -5
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Post by lobb on Jun 8, 2021 13:18:31 GMT -5
I'm going to have to count them properly but a quick look tells me blue is the predominant eye colour! I'm surprised because it's not my favourite (brown is) but in all fairness, it looks greyish to me. xD
My favourites are brown, orange, and tan, and I'm really bad at telling them apart so it's possible their numbers are wrong. Orange alone seems to be a close second, though!
I don't think I've got any cherry or black eyes on my crew. Are black eyes actually black or are they a dark grey?
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Post by gyiyg on Jun 8, 2021 14:19:52 GMT -5
out of 64 petz:
- 7 pink (75)
- 6 orange (60s range)
- 4 blue (171-172, 175-178 ranges)
- 4 green (2, 130s range)
- 3 cherry (50s range)
- 2 grey (25, 173)
- 2 dusty (120s range)
- 1 teal (6)
- 1 gold (100s range)
- 1 blue-grey (110s range)
- (and 30 hexed/other)
- (and 3 with no eyes to speak of!)
this doesn't especially surprise me ::P (i also have more pink if you count hexed 223)
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Post by gingerade on Jun 8, 2021 18:54:08 GMT -5
Overwhelming majority for blue! I think the blues always have a nice contrast with all fur colours which is why I'm drawn to them :3 I particularly love the blues that look a bit purpley (the mid 170s I think). This was fun to tally!
Gray: 5 Cherry: 3 Orange: 5 Brown: 3 Tan: 1 Steel: 1 Slothy: 9 Green: 8 Blue: 29 Aqua: 2 Black: 1 Pink: 5
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Post by commander on Jun 8, 2021 22:17:30 GMT -5
haha, yeah, I'm just going to sit back and watch this, I'm not counting the eye colors in my 3000+ petz. It's pretty neat to see the numbers so far! Blue does seem to be a pretty popular color all around.
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Post by Penny @ Just Dandy on Jun 8, 2021 22:21:45 GMT -5
I love seeing everyone's different preferences!! Very cool to see how people really have a lot of some eye colors and almost none of others; I love seeing those different tastes lol Also commander I don't blame you, oh my goodness XD
In response to lobb 's post, black eyes are their own color, 244 on the Petz palate. They're "recessive" (if a ranged color (like how ginger or tan have that full X0-X9 range) shows up in the genome, black is always recessive to it) and it can be kind of tricky to get because you just need to get really lucky with mutations. Black is in my top 4 favorite eye colors: that silver/gray/blue that gin probably mentioned as looking purpley, green, cherry, and black. The only reason I don't have more black-eyed petz in my crew is that it's hard to find in other people's crew and therefore hard to adopt unless a very kind breeder (Buck) of very fancy tamsins (Buck) is kind enough to honor your breeding request for a black-eyed black dog (thanks, Buck).
When I tallied the most recent posts and I am SHOCKED that black eyes are so unpopular??? Tied with teal for last place?!?!?! Are you kidding?? This is an act of injustice and I'm going to start breeding black-eyed petz and throwing them out into the world so you all see the beauty of this underloved eye color omg
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Post by CatCreature on Jun 8, 2021 23:16:58 GMT -5
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Post by gingerade on Jun 9, 2021 6:33:02 GMT -5
In response to lobb 's post, black eyes are their own color, 244 on the Petz palate. They're "recessive" (if a ranged color (like how ginger or tan have that full X0-X9 range) shows up in the genome, black is always recessive to it) and it can be kind of tricky to get because you just need to get really lucky with mutations. Ooo this is super interesting, I didn't know certain colours were actually more dominant than others! Is there anywhere to read more information about this? When I was doing my Dali breeding project, I was super lucky to get black eyes to appear but I remember really struggling to get them to show in later gens, even though black would be present on pups' genepoolz spreads. Now I've learnt it's recessive, that makes sense! lobb Any excuse for me to show off Kuro here, but she's an example of black black eyes *o* Maybe the reason black isn't prevalent in this tally is because it's just so rare rather than unpopular? Likewise, maybe statistically blue is just more likely (there are also 150s blues I think suggesting a greater range of blues available?) and maybe it is also a dominant colour? This is super interesting! I'm struggling to decide what my actual favourite eye colour is (though according to my numbers it is blue xD). I am definitely in favour of you releasing a wave of black-eyed petz into the community hehe! It might be a tricky project though, if they're recessive? ;P
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Post by Penny @ Just Dandy on Jun 9, 2021 8:35:02 GMT -5
gingerade Crush has a guide to Petz eye color genetics at their site! It covers a lot of cool Petz genetic info and is a very good read.
I'm trying a PB NIB dali line too (inspired by your and Rho's projects lol hope you don't mind me imitating you guys) and I've been searching for those black eyes with no luck >.< I got some other colors I wanted but yeah, getting black eyes like that is a miracle of fate. It's not like a color where there's a large range; it's one color out of 90 or so; it's not like green where there are many versions of the same color type. A lot of chance is involved.
I think the fact that it's a rarer mutation does contribute to it's low frequency, but pink is in the same boat where it's one specific color that you have to be really lucky to randomly get. Pink is actually pretty frequent, probably just because people really like pink and it's more highly prized and pink-eyed petz are specifically bred.
Also Kuro is freaking STUNNING; I saw her on your site in your dali project page and I'm just in love!! I have three of my four "goal colors" (cherry, green, silver/gray (173), and a bonus pink, which I wasn't going for but am happy to get) and now just need black!!! Those illusive midnight eyes >o< I crave them
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