Example Sentences

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Sows each have their own little hut, and the huts are scattered around a pasture.

From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2022

Sows become sexually mature at six months, and can drop two litters a year.

From Washington Times • Mar. 18, 2018

Sows pass immunity to their newborn, he said, and the piglets should have developed immunity by now.

From Reuters • Sep. 20, 2013

Sows In Canton, Ill., Lonnie Foote, 2, liked to play with little pigs, crawled through a fence into a field where twelve sows and their litters were kept.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sows should not be bred under a year old, but it is better to wait until the twentieth month so that they may have pigs at two years.

From Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro by Harrison, Fairfax