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farrow

[far-oh] / ˈfær oʊ /
NOUN
aardvark
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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

Everybody can see these are made for the farrows.

From A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready by Bret Harte

Lying among the farrows, the soldiers slept with the horses, heads bowed, eyes closed.

From The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution by E. (Enrique) Munguía

Sows that were counted on for litters of eight or nine farrowed only six or seven.

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

In farmsteads everywhere newly farrowed piglets were lying like pink sausages at the teats of deflated sows.

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 European Commission has said it intends to ban all caged farming systems, including the use of farrowing crates and sow stalls, possibly implementing new legislation by 2027.

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

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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