BLINDNESS IN HORSES.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 29, Issue 47, 19 June 1917, Page 7

BLINDNESS IN HORSES.

Horses are more often afficted with blindness than any other domestic animal, a fact ascribablc to different causes, some of which are as follows Racks above the mangers in stables, so that the horse has to raise his head to get at the hay. Dust, seed, and sharp-bearded grain fall into the animal’s eyes, setting up inflammation, and often leading to the loss of an eye. The injurious •fleet of the pungent vapour of ammonia in most stables, and bad lighting. The use of blinkers and carelessness with the whip, flicking the eye and rupturing a blood vessel, will also cause inflammation and blindness. More often than is realised the end of the whip flicks the eye, particularly when a driver is simply playing his whip round the horse's head by way of enlivening him.