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<\/p>\nHe wasn\u2019t always blind.\u00a0 When he was a month old a piece of his mom\u2019s tail got stuck in his eye.\u00a0 It was removed and his eye healed just fine.\u00a0 He always had a white dot in that eye.\u00a0 Over time that dot became a small starburst, then a larger starburst.\u00a0 About three years ago it was a full cataract.\u00a0 His limited vision does not bother him.\u00a0 When riding his vision is not an issue at all.\u00a0 When out hacking he will always be looking behind him with his good eye.<\/p>\n
Below are some fun facts that I\u2019ve recently learned about equine vision.<\/p>\n
Horses are not color blind.\u00a0 Objects with colors that contrast with the ground are easier for them to see.\u00a0 Horses can see colors in the blue-green spectrum.\u00a0 It is thought they cannot distinguish reds and yellows but research shows reds look more greenish to horses.<\/p>\n
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Horses have amazing night vision.\u00a0 Horses have a really cool membrane in their eye called a tapetum lucid.\u00a0 This is a reflecting membrane that increases the light to the photoreceptors.\u00a0 Their large eye is helpful in the detection of predators.\u00a0 Horses are less able to adjust to changes in light such as when it\u2019s dark outside and I turn on the barn lights at night.<\/p>\n
Individual horses are just like us in that about 30% of domestic horses are nearsighted.\u00a0 And about 40% of domestic horses are farsighted.\u00a0 These differences can affect how well a horse does at a particular activity.<\/p>\n
Horses have almost a 350 degree range of vision.\u00a0 It stretches from the end of their nose to their hip on both sides.\u00a0 They have two blind spots.\u00a0 One blind spot is directly behind the horse.\u00a0 The second blind spot is directly in front of their face.\u00a0 It starts at eye level and goes to the ground below their nose out to about six feet.\u00a0 Horses cannot see the hay they eat or treat you hold up to their mouth.\u00a0 They use their whiskers to sense any object in this blind spot.\u00a0 That\u2019s why it\u2019s so important to not clip their whiskers!<\/p>\n
The iris of the horse\u2019s eye is usually dark brown or black but can be found in shades of hazel, amber, blue, and green.\u00a0 The most common eye color is brown and green is the rarest eye color.\u00a0 Eyes can also be multi-colored.<\/p>\n
The last fun fact is horse eyes are big.\u00a0 Their eyes are twice the size of human eyes.\u00a0 Horse\u2019s eyes one of the largest eyes in the animal kingdom!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
He wasn\u2019t always blind.\u00a0 When he was a month old a piece of his mom\u2019s tail got stuck in his eye.\u00a0 It was removed and his eye healed just fine.\u00a0 He always had a white dot in that eye.\u00a0 Over time that dot became a small starburst, then a larger starburst.\u00a0 About three years ago…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":35531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[77,115,111,38],"class_list":["post-35530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-farm","tag-equestrian","tag-health","tag-horses","tag-lifestyle"],"yoast_head":"\n