TEST ------------------------------AGE IN WEEKS----------------------------------
| Birth | 1 week | 3 weeks | 6 weeks | 12 weeks | |
| Packed cell volume (%) | 47.5 (45.0-52.5) | 40.5 (33.0-52.0) | 31.7 (27.0-37.0) | 32.5 (26.5-35.5) | 40.9 |
| Red blood cell count (x 10 to the sixth power/ul) | 5.1
(4.7-5.6) |
4.6
(3.6-5.9) |
3.8
(3.5-4.3) |
4.7
(4.3-5.1) |
6.3 |
| Haemoglobin (g/dl) | 15.2 (14.0-17.0) | 12.9 (10.4-17.5) | 9.7
(8.6-11.6) |
10.2 (8.5-11.3) | 14.3 |
| Mean corpscle volume (fl) | 93 | 89 | 83 | 69 | 64.6 |
| Mean corpuscle concentration (pg) | 32 | 32 | 31 | 31.5 | 35.3 |
| Reticulocytes (%) | 6.5
(4.5-9.2) |
6.9
(3.8-15.2) |
6.9
(5.0-9.0) |
4.5
(2.6-6.2) |
NA |
| Total white blood cell count (x 10 to the third power/ul) | 12.0 (6.8-18.4) | 14.1 (9.0-23.0) | 11.2 (6.7-15.1) | 16.3 (12.6-26.7) | 17.1 |
| Band neutrophils (x 10 to the third power/ul) | 0.23
(0-1.5) |
0.5
(0-4.8) |
0.09
(0-0.5) |
0.05
(0-0.3) |
0.08 |
| Segmented neutrophils (x 10 to the third power/ul) | 8.6
(4.4-15.8) |
7.4
(3.8-15.2) |
5.1
(1.4-9.4) |
9.0
(4.2-17.6) |
9.8 |
| Lymphocytes (x 10 to the third power/ul) | 1.9
(0.5-4.2) |
4.3
(1.3-9.4) |
5.0
(2.1-10.2) |
5.7
(2.8-16.6) |
5.7 |
| Monocytes (x 10 to the third power/ul) | 0.9
(0.2-2.2) |
1.1
(0.3-2.5) |
0.7
(0.1-1.4) |
1.1
(0.5-2.7) |
0.9 |
| Eosinophils (x 10 to the third power/ul) | 0.4
(0-1.3) |
0.8
(0.2-2.8) |
0.3
(0.07-0.9) |
0.5
(0.1-1.9) |
0.4 |
| Basophils (x 10 to the third power/ul) | 0 | 0.01
(0-0.02) |
0 | 0 | 0 |
Taken from Small Animal Paediatric medicine
and Surgery, by Hosgood and Hoskins, pub. Butterworth-Heinemann, 1998.
Table originally from Anderson, A.C. and
Gee, W.(1958) Normal blood values in the beagle. Veterinary Medicine, 53,
135. Also from Earl, et al., (1973) The hemogram and bone marrow profile
of normal neonatal and weanling beagle dogs. Laboratory Animal Science,
23, 690-695.