It puts the digestion organs into healthy condition and the result is safe farrowing and a healthy litter which is not apt to suffer from scours or thumps.
The brood sows are placed in separate pens at farrowing time and watched carefully when giving birth to the pigs.
For this reason it is advisable to pay particular attention to the feed and care of the brood sow from breeding to farrowing time.
One of the chief causes of trouble with the farrowing sow arises from the sow not having been allowed to take sufficient exercise.
The trouble if any, which arises from the owner or pig man being in the sty with the farrowing sow almost invariably arises from the absence of a sympathetic feeling between the two.
In ordinary cases this is not necessary, the farrowing of a litter of pigs is a simple and natural operation.
The time of year has a vast influence, a sow farrowing in May will more successfully rear a dozen pigs than she would bring up ten if they were farrowed in the month of October.
Another certain indication of the early arrival of a family is the act of the sow carrying straw about in her mouth wherewith to make her farrowing bed.
Hernia and Scrotal Hernia are also treated upon in the chapter on the Farrowing Sow.
At the time of farrowing all sows should receive a light diet and be kept in clean, dry quarters.
The approach of the period of farrowing is marked by the immense size of the belly, by a depression of the back, and by the distention of the teats.
One of the most satisfactory farrowing houses is constructed of concrete posts 6" square and 6" square mesh hog fencing and straw.
The posts are set to make farrowing pens 8' wide and 16' deep from front to back.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "farrowing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
