Effects of transportation on gastric pH and gastric ulceration in mares.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Transportation has been suggested as a risk factor for gastric ulceration in horses, but limited evidence supports this assumption.

Animals

Twenty-six Standardbred, Thoroughbred, and Warmblood mares from a university teaching herd.

Methods

Twelve mares were confined for 12 hours, overnight, in reproductive stocks with indwelling nasogastric tubes (NGTs) to assess pH of gastric fluid (GF). Gastric ulceration was assessed endoscopically before and after confinement. Subsequently, 26 horses were transported for 12 hours, overnight, in 2 consignments. During transportation, GF was aspirated from indwelling NGT placed in the same 12 mares used in the confinement study, and gastric ulceration was assessed endoscopically before and after transportation in all hors

SUBMITTER: Padalino B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7096603 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature