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
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
Everybody can see these are made for the farrows.
From A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready by Bret Harte
It also farrowed Gerald Templer, a thin, deceptively fragile-looking, tough soldier.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sows that were counted on for litters of eight or nine farrowed only six or seven.
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
The time of year has a vast influence, a sow farrowing in May will more successfully rear a dozen pigs than she would bring up ten if they were farrowed in the month of October.
From The Pig Breeding, Rearing, and Marketing by Sanders Spencer
“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
A spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said: "Our aim is ultimately for farrowing crates to no longer be necessary, and we continue to work towards this objective."
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
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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