Eye... What's it called?

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What is it called when around the main eye it's white rather than the same colour as the eye. I notice horses like Appaloosa and coloured tend to get this, but obviously it's not just in those colours.
I cannot remember what it is called. I really like it as I think it makes the horse's look more expressive.

Thanks :)
 
Traditionally white round the eye is indeed more expressive - of a dodgy temperament! No idea what it's called though.
 
Erm I think you might mean what my friend calls 'mad cow eye' - where a horse has brown eyes ringed slightly with white? I like it too but I know lots of people who don't :cool:
 
I didn't think OP was talking about wall eyes - lack of pigmentation in the iris - but white showing around the outside of the iris.
 
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Do you mean when the hair around their eye is white so it looks like they are wearing spectacles? If so I think it looks cool too but don't know the name :-) there is someone on here whose horse has vitiligo who has it, I think he looks quite dashing :-)
 
Its a white sclera, its due to the loss of colour pigmantation on the third eye lid. Its common in coloureds, apaloosas or horses with large white face markings. Horses with white scleras often get more irritated eyes from things such as light, wind, pollen or dust and are also more common to get small growths on the white area which can often be easily removed.

Now the only reason I know so much is that we had the vet up to my yearling on thursday to check her eye as she has a white sclera from being coloured but her eye is constantly bloodshot and runny and sore looking but after closer inspection her actual eye is perfect but its this white area which is being almost constantly irriatated.
 
Yep thats it Lippy. Murph looks quite like that, he is a liver chestnut with only a white star so not typical at all. He can be an evil so and so now and again though.:D
 
M_G said:
I have always called (& heard it called) human eye
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A very accurate name because human eyes have white scleras - not because the horse has had an eye transplant from a human donor. :rolleyes: :p :eek:

My chestnut mare has one eye with a white sclera and the other eye has a brown sclera.
 
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