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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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have a couple of pigs, out of about 75 head farrowed last spring, which seem to have the staggers.

From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Edward J. (Edward James) Wickson

“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

The National Pig Association estimates 60% of UK sows are kept on indoor pig units and the majority of them give birth and suckle their piglets in farrowing crates.

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

Another certain indication of the early arrival of a family is the act of the sow carrying straw about in her mouth wherewith to make her farrowing bed.

From The Pig Breeding, Rearing, and Marketing by Sanders Spencer