farrow

SG: I like to think we’ve ploughed our own farrow.

From The Verge ● Apr. 22, 2020

While we were standing there talking, Maury said, “Do you farrow the sows in a farrowing house?”

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 14, 2019

That was followed by grilled Washington coast wild salmon with black lentils and baby beets, and platters of smoked Draper Valley chicken with farrow and fava beans.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2013

Photograph: toby farrow @ farrows creative Who are they?

From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2011

The old sow would farrow her young in the out-of-doors.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

When I was pulling the oxen in the fields, my dad would tell me, “The farrows; they should be straight,” for that simple reason.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Photograph: toby farrow @ farrows creative Who are they?

From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2011

Fifty sows with farrows were penned in each, bedded upon the earth, while the boars lay outside—fewer by far, as those well-fatted were for the suitors’ table, fine pork, sent by the swineherd every day.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Lying among the farrows, the soldiers slept with the horses, heads bowed, eyes closed.

From The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution by E. (Enrique) Munguía

Their trunks at the base measured twenty feet in circumference, and their bark was covered by a network of farrows containing a red, sweet-smelling gum.

From The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Of Barke's expected 300 pigs, only 175 were farrowed, only 100 survived.

From Time Magazine Archive

In farmsteads everywhere newly farrowed piglets were lying like pink sausages at the teats of deflated sows.

From Time Magazine Archive

It also farrowed Gerald Templer, a thin, deceptively fragile-looking, tough soldier.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sows that were counted on for litters of eight or nine farrowed only six or seven.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the right-hand side are the teats and belly of a sow, just farrowed, fried with sweet wine, oil, flour, lovage, and pepper.

From The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by T. (Tobias) Smollett

“Particularly in the farrowing shed, they’re very nurturing people,” she says.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 21, 2023

Chickens meander through the farrowing shed, where sows recline in roomy pens with their suckling piglets.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2022

A spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said: "Our aim is ultimately for farrowing crates to no longer be necessary, and we continue to work towards this objective."

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2022

While we were standing there talking, Maury said, “Do you farrow the sows in a farrowing house?”

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 14, 2019

It puts the digestion organs into healthy condition and the result is safe farrowing and a healthy litter which is not apt to suffer from scours or thumps.

From Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry by Pratt Food Co.