im doing a 4-h presintation and I want to know
2007-01-04 12:05:28 · 5 answers · asked by Lexie H 1 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
Horses eyes are very delicate and they can be damaged easily by brush and trees and dangerous fencing. Once the eye is injured, they easily get infected and often need to be removed. Unfortunately horses loose their eyes to the hands of humans who treat them unfairly in training and working situations. I have a miniature stallion with a cloudy eye because his original owner laced him (slapped him with the reins) and scarred his cornea. I had a morgan gelding who lost and eye at his previous home when he ran into a twig. They can be born with out one or with a deformed one and the vet will decide to remove it. Usually horses born with out one will not have a problem with spooking or with depth perception, but when an older horse looses one, they have a tendency to spook when they cannot see. Hope this helps.
2007-01-04 12:12:30 · answer #1 · answered by ml_lansing 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Usually it is cancer. most commonly squamous cell carcinoma. If they went blind due to moonblindness or corneal scarring, the eye is usually left in but not functional. Vets only remove the eye if there is pain or cancer.
As for puncture wounds- that is another possibility, but I have only seen that happen once out of the 700 horses or so that I seen from working at stables. Puncture wounds can sometimes be fixed.
Something else about eyes: they do make prosthetic horse eyes- some are just something to put in the socket, and others actually use their exterior eye stretched over a ceramic ball (that is gross, in my opinion). Most horses do fine blind or with only 1 eye.
2007-01-04 15:41:06 · answer #2 · answered by D 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Horses can have an eye removed due to injury by a vet, or if the injury is bad enough and the vet doesn't remove it, the eye can die and fall out. Only in rare cases have I heard of horse being born with one or no eyes and this is due to a genetic deform.
2007-01-04 18:55:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not a common thing but can happen just like it can happen to us. Sometimes they are born that way or it can happen due to an injury.
2007-01-04 14:05:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
You have horses that have NO EYES??? Someone does?? You have seen this???
2007-01-04 12:12:14 · answer #5 · answered by ARE YOUR NEWFS GELLIN'? 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋