What is 'wall eyed'?

[pmcc]

Saw this on a horse advert (not looking to buy just passing time).
The seller said the cob wasn't 'wall eyed', haven't heard of it before.

 

[Stormin]

Wall eye is a blue eye

 

[pmcc]

oh right, thought it was maybe where the horse has vision problems or goes into a daze.

 

[Native Lover]

No its just some horses have one or both eyes blue some people don't like wall eyed horses,I am not keen on them.

 

[Wally]

Charles Buttons Esq has a half a blue eye and a bit of blue in the other, I quite like it, it makes him look madder than he really is.....and he's a bit mad, or he'd like us to think he is!

 

[Trewsers]

Charles Buttons Esq has a half a blue eye and a bit of blue in the other, I quite like it, it makes him look madder than he really is.....and he's a bit mad, or he'd like us to think he is!

What a brilliant name!

 

[Sarah_Sayers]

Does anyone know why it's called Wall Eye? Not Blue Eye or something more discriptive.

 

[pmcc]

Does anyone know why it's called Wall Eye? Not Blue Eye or something more discriptive.

yes good point
think it does make them look crazy, would put me off.

 

[Cortrasna]

I had always understood that a horse with a 'wall eye' is an eye that has a white ring around the outer of the eyeball - regardless of the actual colour of the eye itself - be it blue, black, brown or whatever? Hence the term 'wall' as it is a wall of white around the main colour.