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
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 Munguía, E. (Enrique)
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 Verne, Jules
This was the wretch whom Faustus saw; and his heart rejoiced when he contemplated the paleness of his cheeks, and the farrows which anguish and despair had made in his brow.
From Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom by Borrow, George Henry
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
It also farrowed Gerald Templer, a thin, deceptively fragile-looking, tough soldier.
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 Spencer, Sanders
The National Pig Association said it would be "following the next steps closely" on farrowing crates and was itself looking towards more flexible systems.
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
It puts the digestion organs into healthy condition and the result is safe farrowing and a healthy litter which is not apt to suffer from scours or thumps.
From Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry by Pratt Food Co.
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