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
“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
His sow farrows; his horse is gelded; a first lamb is born.
From Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition by S. A. Reilly
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
Sows that were counted on for litters of eight or nine farrowed only six or seven.
From Time Magazine Archive
It also farrowed Gerald Templer, a thin, deceptively fragile-looking, tough soldier.
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
Of Barke's expected 300 pigs, only 175 were farrowed, only 100 survived.
From Time Magazine Archive
Had the old sow, which he had purchased from Jokisch, farrowed?
From Absolution by Clara Viebig
About 80 sows and 1,000 piglets were in a farrowing house on the farm.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2024
“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
Even the sows—did they droop as they neared farrowing?
From Dust by Marcet Haldeman-Julius
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