Wall Eye

[vimto92]

Anybodys horses on here have wall eye [pictures] - I find them really fascinating.:confused:

Its lack of pigment/no pigment in cells isnt it?:confused: What is pigment - I'd love to have a proper explanation - my book says very little on the matter and the google searches just.....are difficult LOL:p

Vic x

[Miriam]

Rhi has one wall eye. Sorry no pics though

[raingodz]

Katie has wall eyes, bit hard to see in this photo, but it basically looks like she has blue eyes:

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f192/raingodz/cowley/katie1.jpg

[Vicki&Milo]

Anybodys horses on here have wall eye [pictures] - I find them really fascinating.:confused:

Its lack of pigment/no pigment in cells isnt it?:confused: What is pigment - I'd love to have a proper explanation - my book says very little on the matter and the google searches just.....are difficult LOL:p

Vic x

Pigment is just the name for something that makes the colour, the same as with hair.
I didn't think that horses with wall eyes lacked pigment, as they still have colour in the centre of their eyes, but not round the edges, thought thye just had small eyes and big eye 'oles :D :D
Never really thought about it though, so likely to be miles out

Vicki xx

[vimto92]

Thank you everyone!:)

[teabiscuit]

i think that if no pigment was present the eye would be pink, as in animals affected by albinoism.

[chev]

I've been doing some more research into this, and found some incredibly knowledgable people who told me lots more about blue eyes.... :D

Blue eyes are most often linked to a fairly common gene called splash white. It causes distinctive bottom-heavy blazes which are often wider in the middle than anywhere else, and obvious white markings - it works in a similar way to sabino, but doesn't have the ragged edges and roaning and ticking that sabino does. It also often results in blue eyes. Blue eyes are basically eyes that have less (not no) brown pigment in them.

Eyes only have one 'colour' - brown. Blue eyes have the least amount of pigment, but as has been said, would be pink if there was no pigment at all (because it's the pigment that keeps the blood vessels in the eye from being visible - without pigment, the vessels can be seen, giving the eye a pink appearance.) - in humans, green eyes are eyes that have more brown pigment, but not as much as brown. There is no separate 'green eye' gene in humans. Spalsh doesn't just cause these characteristic white markings - it also causes the eyes to be blue, or lack melanin (the brown colouring). Sometimes the eyes are brown with blue flecks, or half-blue and half-brown. Splash appears to interfere with the production of melanin in the eye and this is how blue eyes seem to be passed down certain bloodlines (especially noticeable in certain Welsh lines). It also explains how blue eyes crop up out of the blue (ha ha) on occasion - the white markings are more than likely there, but the gene just hasn't been expressed that wildly.

It's also linked to certain overo genes in the same kind of way - but splash white is common in some UK breeds where overo is not so well known. There is no separate 'blue eye gene' as such - it is linked to coat pattern.

[vimto92]

Thanks Chev!:D

[Rips]

Great work on the colour threads chev :)

I also just had to post this.... hee hee
http://www.vannercentral.com/images/Blue%20041605%20(1).JPG

[Jessey]

:confused: I thought wall eye was different to blue eyes :confused:
Bo has what I know to be a wall eye, where the brown pigment of the eye doesn't stretch right to the edge, so you get a visible white area around the brown bit, so what is that really?
My friend has an Appolosa X Paint who has one brown eye and one blue, I find it a bit creapy, another friend has a gelding with pink eyes - thats VERY scary ;)

J x

[chev]

Wall eyes, glass eyes, chalk eyes and blue eyes all describe the same thing - blue eyes. A horse that has a white-lined eye, or where the white is visible at the edge of the brown iris, doesn't have wall eyes - it's called a sclera. It's very common in spotted patterns and Appaloosa breeding.

Pink eyes?!! What colour is the gelding? Do you have any pics? That's really interesting - I've never come across pink eyes at all. Pink eyes are what happens when there is no pigment at all in the eye, and I've never seen it documented in horses.

[ponylover88]

My mare has half a wall eye. Splashed with blue down the middle like a stripe. Ill get a pic of it tomorrow as i cant find a pic good enough to put up. Its strange, but cute ... didnt know it was possible til i met Bertha!

[Maddison's girl]

http://www.bomb-proof.co.uk/Horses/Pacha.htm


oooo if you want to see a gorgeous horse with blue eyes take a look at this link. Im going to buy her when I win the lottery tomorrow :D

[Rips]

:eek: shes way overpriced and ridden and driving at 3???! Her eyes are the only nice thing about her, usually you see them lined with pink, which I don't like.

[Maddison's girl]

:eek: shes way overpriced and ridden and driving at 3???!.

I thought that myself, but she has such fantastic looking eyes :)

They all seem to be very expensive on that website

[Rips]

They also appear to have cleaned up some of their horses with photoshop :p I know because I've done it myself with greys. Not really any harm in it I guess but they could as easily clean up lumps and bumps!

[vimto92]

:D Awww cutey!

And you do that PL88 *get a pic of just her eye/head*

Plus......they photoshop some pictures.....thats just wrong!:eek:

[ponylover88]

Will do it tomorrow, it was tipping it down with rain. Did get a few vids, but mainly of Paddys underside as he went bucking along!

[vimto92]

Will do it tomorrow, it was tipping it down with rain. Did get a few vids, but mainly of Paddys underside as he went bucking along!
Oki doke!:)
No pressure though hun!:p
Ah! Rain!:(
And hehe bless him!:D

Vic x

[ponylover88]

Heres Berthas vers of a wall eye ...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/Snip/260306/Photo0200.jpg

[vimto92]

Wow! Thats even more unique!

[ponylover88]

Wow! Thats even more unique!
Yup. Bet they're not many horses with the stripe of wall eye thru the middle lol. :D
Going to start another thread ...

[Jessey]

Chev,

That gelding is a Quarter horse and he is white, I guess, will see if she still has him (she buys and sells) and try and get a picture, it is very scary

[jgrinols1]

I thought that a wall eye was just one blue eye and one brown eye.


Does anyone know what the genetic background of a wall eye is? Is it caused by a recessive gene or just a lack of pigment development in one or both eyes? Is there any way to predict the probability of offspring with a wall eye (unless it is not heritable)

[Nik-n-Kia]

[QUOTE=ponylover88;829819]Snowey, the cremello has wall eyes. Can be quite easily seen in these pics...QUOTE]


In cremello if they dont have blue eyes then it isn't cremello. They are the only breed allowed to have blue eyes as breed standard.

There I learned something when listening to breeders talking to me at riding club........ ;)

Nikki xxxxx :D

[Wally]

Charles Buttons Esq, has a splash of blue in one eye and a half a blue eye the other side.

[ali cat]

ted has a wall eye -i think of it as getting something extra
he is sos oooooo gorgwous:):):)

[amylou_84]

Here is a Buddy. My OH's dog. He has a wall eye. Excuse the red eye though lol.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/135/363920093_6aadb19f96.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/102/315178814_28574a4659.jpg

[clarejones]

HI interesing thread about wall eyes my connemara stallion has amber eyes he is registered as dark dun but he must be a buckskin as he is carrying the cream gene. How do you get amber eyes is it like the wall eye?? I would love to have a foal off him with amber eyes but he has never passed it on