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
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
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
It also farrowed Gerald Templer, a thin, deceptively fragile-looking, tough soldier.
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
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
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 UK government, which banned sow stalls in 1999, is also considering phasing out farrowing crates.
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
One of the chief causes of trouble with the farrowing sow arises from the sow not having been allowed to take sufficient exercise.
From The Pig Breeding, Rearing, and Marketing by Sanders Spencer
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