Figure 7.

Gastric ulcer scores in horses according to time of feeding before transportation. Horses fasted for 12 hours before placement of nasogastric tubes had higher summed squamous scores (blue) than horses that were fed at 1200 hours (6 hours before departure) or at 1700 hours (immediately before departure), but observed differences were not significant (P = .06). No effect was observed on glandular ulcer scores (orange). Results are shown as median (horizontal bar), mean (cross), quartiles (box), and range (whiskers), with all data points shown