Horses eyes - what are yours like?

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Would any of you nice people be able to show me some close up pictures of your horses eyes? And whether on that day your horse was healthy and happy or sick/injured/moody. I see a lot looking at my horses eyes but sometimes wonder if my emotions cloud what I see as some people don't see what I see. Thank you. I'll post a selection of my horse later if I can get them loaded.

Thank you!
 
I don't have any pictures I'm afraid, but I can tell a lot from my 25 yr old's eyes. I get absolutely nothing from my 6 yr old however, he is much more difficult to read - he does bat his eyelashes if he wants a mint though!
 
I'll take some for you tomorrow. :) My horses seem to have everything from brown, greeny beige, amber, blue and everything in between!

Here's one of my now 8yo IDx as a 2yo.

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ETA: He was quite content that day and plodded over for a scratch and a sniff.
 
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I don't have pictures to post but my mare has the kindest, most loving eyes. We look at each other with total love and understanding - I am very very lucky :)
 
I have no photos but have been following your threads, my horse was injured 21/2 years ago, he then suffered another unrelated traumatic injury to his mouth while at the vets being treated, when he was recovering his eyes told me a lot, he looked in pain, had a headache/ jaw ache, also unknown at the time a fracture to the bar of his mouth, plus an undiagnosed SI injury, so like your boy he had a lot going on and it was difficult to decide where hurt the most.
His eyes remained dull for many months, gradually he recovered from the injuries but the SI had not been picked up or treated, I could still, 12 months later, see his eyes were not truly bright but kept being told by the vets that he was "fine", a change of vet and the SI treated, now another 12 months on he looks like he used to, I have no photos of the eyes as it was so slight I don't think anything would have shown but I do regret not taking some when he was at his worst but at the time there was so much to think about taking photos of him just didn't really occur to me.

If you know your horse you get a gut feeling when something is wrong, go with it, you may be too close but no one knows the horse like you do, vets only work with clinical signs they tend to say there is nothing wrong if they cannot find a reason but the owner is usually right in the end.
 
i cant upload pics from my phone but absolutely agree that you can read a horses or any animals physical and mental state through the eyes, with some anyway certainly not all
 
I was checking her wound here, so she wasn't relaxed, although she wasn't stressed enough to walk off. She does have a white sclera on that eye but don't let that deceive you, she always shows lots of white on that eye because of that. It's more the way that her upper eyelid area looks as if she's 'raising her eyebrows' that stands out as tension or possibly a bit of pain due to the op.

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She's relaxed here, this is her eye with a brown sclera, but the whole upper eyelid area is more relaxed.

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Hoping for a carrot and she'd quite like to go out in the field, so she's a bit excited here.

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Wondering what's going on in the distance.

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Interesting thread.

This is my companion mare, being on-the-ball mummy. I think she'd heard a noise and was checking whether baby was safe.

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Baby Graham, having some education, mental cogs whirring.

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I think he has his mum's eyes.
 
Can't find photos, but mine has a certain 'spark' in his eyes.
The easiest way to describe it is a mixture of curiosity and cheek.
as in, once he has dropped his hay on the floor, he looks at you as if to say 'why are you down there with all that hay?'

I can always tell when something isn't right with him as he looks more worried/alert/sad/nervous/angry than normal. He also has very 'naughty eyes' I've heard too.
 
I'm sure someone on here is an iridologist. It might be worth asking them to look at some pictures (if we can remember who it is...)
 
Thanks everyone, lovely horses. Next few posts might be a bit piecemeal due to photobucket issues!

I didn't have any close ups of his eye at this point, I might be able to zoom in on some later. This is him on 6th June this year, the happiest I have ever seen him. His eyes were so bright but relaxed in a way I hadn't seen them before. I could ride with no bridle at all and he listened to me every second, no spooking or getting distracted, he seemed truly happy to me. This is 10 weeks after 1st steroid injection into sacroiliac (5 weeks after second) and 9 weeks after adding ALCAR for his PSSM. Vets saw him previous day and thought he looked incredible.
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This is how my horse looked when he was in the middle of his ongoing issues, almost as if they have a hangover would possibly be the best comparison, the slightly hooded look due to the eye not opening fully and dullness.

Is he on any pain relief at the moment?
Mine was helped by an osteopath, my regular excellent physio was dealing with his back end but the osteo picked up on the jaw tension and did some interesting things to his mouth and tongue which seemed to help.

Yasandcrystal used an iridologist on her horse with a complex range of problems, it would be worth asking who she used as I recall it was fairly accurate.
 
SatsumaGirl said:
I'll take some for you tomorrow. :) My horses seem to have everything from brown, greeny beige, amber, blue and everything in between!

Here's one of my now 8yo IDx as a 2yo.

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ETA: He was quite content that day and plodded over for a scratch and a sniff.
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Aside from what they look like extranally, I note this is a spotted horse. You can see (with opthlmascope thingy) the 'back' of the eye of a horse like this will be spotted too. Our vet let me look at our boys (I had a check on him to ensure no cataracts developing as he is old and we were doing a good bit of jumping and thought I'd just get him checked for my own peace of mind .... there were none) . I could see the markings! Really weird!
 
mine has a white thing in her eye - from ulcer she had, luckily she did not loose her eye but it left a scar- top pic. I guess it must be a kind of blind spot but it doesn't seem to bother her. It is very obvious is she looks directly at you.
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And the next few pictures are taken over the last 2-3 weeks. Hopefully you can see what I see.
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My Clydesdale mare, Pearl, often had these 'triangles' over her eyes, although she didn't really exhibit any signs of pain. Looking back, a neighbour commented on how often she saw her lying down and the elderly ex-broodmare who was always very self-contained started grooming her but those were the only signs even now that I can think of, except that she became slightly noise reactive where she had been completely bombproof.
She died of a ruptured internal tumour, poor girl, after just a fortnight of obvious illness, which she seemed to be recovering from.

So, OP, that eye looks like the eye of a horse in pain to me. I do hope you get to the bottom of your horse's issues.
 
He's 3 days into a 14 day danilon trial. Don't know if I should see a difference immediately or if it takes time.
 
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