farrowing
fa roh ing
- n the production of a litter of pigs
- v give birth
- So she is rushed into the farrowing barn, which, jauntily topped by a weather vane in the form of a pig, has pens for 16 expectant gilts and sows.
- Making the best of a bad situation, Izvestia described how 17 "heroic collective farm workers" had shoveled four feet of dust off a hog-farrowing shed near Krasnodar, then stayed .
- Farmers expecting better hog prices next year cannily held back their farrowing sows, sold the Government only 200,000 up to last week.