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
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
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
The sow farrows pigs, They go to the spit of the lord.
From Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
In farmsteads everywhere newly farrowed piglets were lying like pink sausages at the teats of deflated sows.
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
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
As the sow's bowels are likely to be somewhat constipated it is always advisable to exercise her for a few minutes during the morning after she has farrowed.
From The Pig Breeding, Rearing, and Marketing by Sanders Spencer
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
In ordinary cases this is not necessary, the farrowing of a litter of pigs is a simple and natural operation.
From The Pig Breeding, Rearing, and Marketing by Sanders Spencer
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