Table 1.

Mean values (or range of values) of effective renal plasma flow (ERPF), effective renal blood flow (ERBF), glomerular filtration rate (GFR), filtration fraction (FF), diuresis, urine osmolality (Uosm) in some species of livestock. GFR - (ml/min/m²) or *(ml/min/kg body weight).

	ERPF (ml/min/m2)	ERBF (ml/min/m2)	GFR (ml/min/m2) or *(ml/min/kg bw)	FF (%)	Uosm (mmol/kg H2O)	Numbers of animals	Age of animals	References
goats	490	650	55	10	1100	12		Vogel [63]
		650	51	10	1100	12		Ketz [29]
goat kids			1.69-3.08*			8	8-30 days old	Drzezdzon et al. [18]
sheep	490		58			12		Vogel [63]
			1.1-2.3*			89 female 19 male		Bickhardt and Dungelhoef [9]
cattle	472		73		>1100	12		Ketz [29]
			70					Boehnecke and Tiews [8]
calves			1.75-3.32*			10	1-14 days old	Skrzypczak [53]
	230-289	359-455	36.5-47.8	14-19		10 female	1-7 days old	Skrzypczak [49]
				20				Dalton [16]
				14-24		12		Ketz [29]
	326						2-3 days old	Hartmann et al. [1987]
	379						4-20 days old	Hartmann et al. [24]
	351		2.31*			23	1-6 weeks old	Wanner et al. [60]
pigs					<1100			Vogel [63]