farrowing

IPA: fˈæroʊɪŋ

Examples of "farrowing" in Sentences

The Swedes did away with gestation crates years ago, and they do not use crates for "farrowing" either.
On many farms, sows are confined to two kinds of small stalls—known as gestation and farrowing crates—before and after giving birth.
Canadians are good at birthing piglets a process known as "farrowing"; Americans are better at fattening them up before taking them to market.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.