Farrowing

Word FARROWING
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What do we mean by farrowing?

To give birth to a (litter of piglets).

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The word "farrowing" in example sentences

The Swedes did away with gestation crates years ago, and they do not use crates for "farrowing" either. ❋ David Kirby (2010)

Canadians are good at birthing piglets a process known as "farrowing"; Americans are better at fattening them up before taking them to market. ❋ Unknown (2004)

It simply uses last year's slaughter level, the predicted year-on-year percentage changes for market pig inventories, farrowings (a "farrowing" is a litter being born), farrowing intentions and litter size and adjustments for changes in known supply factors such as pig and market hog imports from Canada and pig performance. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The dogs are confined in these crates for four months, taken out to give birth then feed their young for several weeks in a "farrowing crate," which allows them to lay on their side but still not turn around. ❋ Josh Tetrick (2011)

Activists are now most focused on the use of gestation crates, where sows live during pregnancy, rather than farrowing crates where they live while nursing. ❋ Marshall Eckblad (2011)

Sows typically spend a bulk of their lives in either gestation crates or farrowing crates, since producers can increase their productivity by breeding sows as frequently as possible. ❋ Marshall Eckblad (2011)

When legislation is put before voters on the local and state level to ban fois gras, battery cages for chickens, or farrowing stalls for pigs, it meets with a strong fight from industry forces, but nearly always passes. ❋ Victoria Moran (2011)

The farrowing (birthing) pens had iron pipes up about eight inches, eight or ten inches, out from the wall, so that when the sow lay down she wouldn't crush the little ones against the wall. ❋ Unknown (2010)

On many farms, sows are confined to two kinds of small stalls—known as gestation and farrowing crates—before and after giving birth. ❋ Marshall Eckblad (2011)

These pens are palatial compared to the farrowing crates used here. ❋ David Kirby (2010)

In Sweden, farrowing houses offer each sow her own 7-by-10-foot pen, big enough to include separate areas for bedding, feeding and dunging, plus a "creep area" where piglets can sleep without getting squished by their mother. ❋ David Kirby (2010)

The pigs gave birth and nursed their young without the hideous confinement of farrowing crates, but each one was destined for slaughter and the runt of every litter was killed as an infant. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Volunteer Noemie got down on all fours and knelt in a replica farrowing crate in the middle of Covent [...] ❋ Unknown (2008)

"There are dead piglets in the farrowing crates, and one moribund piglet is captured on video in her last minutes of life," says Illinois veterinarian Debra Teachout. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Even though the HBO documentary that grew out of the 2006 incidents, Death on a Factory Farm broadcast in March, feels like a victory -- it documents the agony of pigs on Ken Wiles '6,000 sow farrowing operation and the trial that found him not guilty of cruelty -- nothing viewers see is illegal or considered cruel. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Farm hands had to pressure wash every inch of manure from farrowing crates -- sometimes using knives -- while Wiles watched and corrected them. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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