farrowing

The farrowing of the land takes thegame patterns as that which the motionless waves had shown.

I got back from a farrowing at four o'clock and you hadn't arrived then Where the hell were you, anyway?"

Pregnant sows show inappetence, become very thin, and following farrowing, milk production is reduced with effects on litter performance.

I have Removed the Sow to our Pantry, since she is near Farrowing.

Farrowing, giving birth.

In one group of eight, half chose to go in for their first farrowing; the second time they farrowed, all eight went in.

Sula didn't notice right away, preoccupied as she was with scrounging enough leaves and roots and offal to feed Kiki through her farrowing.

By raising pigs without the need for interventions like boar castration, no tail clipping, no teeth clipping and no farrowing or gestation crating.

He had got me out of bed at 3 a.m. to a farrowing and when I stumbled, eyes half closed, from the car he was standing outside the piggery holding a lamp.

A single source describes Romulus' provision of an altar and sacrifice to Lares Grundules ("grunting lares") after an unusually large farrowing of thirty piglets.

In the farrowing room, where expectant sows are kept, more than two dozen newborn piglets scamper about in their stalls, their skin a translucent pink, their umbilical cords still dangling from their bellies.

The benzimidazoles and ivermectin may be used for the treatment of clinical cases and a single dose of ivermectin 4-16 days prior to farrowing has been shown to suppress larval excretion in the milk of sows.

A 2004 literature review by animal scientists determined that sows in stalls exhibited more "stereotypical" behavior than sows in group housing, but that animals housed in stalls had lower injury rates and higher farrowing rates.

And on top of that I had had a wider than usual selection of Ewan's private jobs; a couple of cleansings, a farrowing, a few pregnancy diagnoses; all jacket-off jobs which left my arms raw and painful.