farrow
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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
“We raised hogs from farrow to finish, and we had corn, beans, hay and oats. So did everyone around us.”
From The Guardian ● Mar. 9, 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
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
Everybody can see these are made for the farrows.
From A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready by Bret Harte
This was the wretch whom Faustus saw; and his heart rejoiced when he contemplated the paleness of his cheeks, and the farrows which anguish and despair had made in his brow.
From Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom by George Henry Borrow
In farmsteads everywhere newly farrowed piglets were lying like pink sausages at the teats of deflated sows.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of Barke's expected 300 pigs, only 175 were farrowed, only 100 survived.
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
Pigs were farrowed perfect in all their other parts, but without ears.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough
The government is also looking at ending the use of "confinement systems" in farming including caged hens and pig farrowing crates, which are used to contain sows during birth and nursing.
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2025
“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
While we were standing there talking, Maury said, “Do you farrow the sows in a farrowing house?”
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 14, 2019
All breeders lay great emphasis on the condition of the bowels during pregnancy, and particularly at farrowing.
From Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry by Pratt Food Co.
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