farrow
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Conyac raises about 150 hogs annually from farrow to finish.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2022
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
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
The sow farrows pigs, They go to the spit of the lord.
From Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
His sow farrows; his horse is gelded; a first lamb is born.
From Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition by S. A. Reilly
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
Sows that were counted on for litters of eight or nine farrowed only six or seven.
From Time Magazine Archive
By late summer, say economists, the cost of pork should tumble as more of the big crop of hogs farrowed last winter comes to market.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some persons strongly recommend the giving of a strong dose of medicine to the sow after she has farrowed.
From The Pig Breeding, Rearing, and Marketing by Sanders Spencer
The National Pig Association said it would be "following the next steps closely" on farrowing crates and was itself looking towards more flexible systems.
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
The brood sows are placed in separate pens at farrowing time and watched carefully when giving birth to the pigs.
From Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry by Pratt Food Co.
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