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verbsowed, sown səʊsoʊ [with object]1Plant (seed) by scattering it on or in the earth. fill a pot with compost and sow a thin layer of seeds on top Example sentencesExamples - He sows seeds by broadcasting them on the ground in February, the coldest month of the year.
- Now is the perfect time to sow a few seeds or plant out some seedlings.
- If you forgot to sow some seeds, young tender perennial plants can be bought, potted into individual containers and grown on.
- To avoid future problems, make sure all seed trays are thoroughly cleaned before use, fill them with fresh, sterilised seed compost, sow the seeds thinly to prevent overcrowding and irrigate with mains water.
- The greatest difficulty in raising primroses from seeds however, is sowing the seeds in the proper sort of seed bed.
- It is too late in the year to sow seeds, but there is still time to order plants for delivery in March.
- Three seeds were sown and plants thinned to one per pot when the first trifoliate leaf emerged.
- Two seeds were sown into each pot and thinned down after emergence to standardize initial seedling size.
- The lid has 49 corresponding spikes which make perfectly central holes in the compost for you to sow your seeds in.
- With wheat, for example, men tend to prepare the earth and sow the seed, while women and children do much of the weeding.
- When you sow a seed or plant a tree, either the seed will germinate and the tree will grow, or they will die.
- Thankfully, I had the presence of mind to get straight outside and plant the Irises, spread the fertilizer and sow the grass seed before it got dark.
- Four seeds were sown per pot and thinned to a single plant nearest the center.
- In another area, he sows seeds to attract birds like linnets, reed buntings and bramblings.
- Seeds were sown on 14 Apr. and the matured plants were harvested on 16 Aug. before the onset of flowering.
- So, never mind the fact that it's too late for plants, you can sow seeds in neat little rows now.
- To sow the seeds, take a handful of seeds from the bag and fling them in front of your body in a fanning motion, letting the seeds roll down your fingers.
- If you're willing to do a little more work and exercise some patience, there is a way to eradicate or at least greatly reduce your weed population before you sow your flower seed.
- Gibson cautions that it is important to sow crop seeds correctly.
- Most gardeners propagate sagos from offsets from the mother plant, but you can sow fertilized seeds.
Synonyms scatter, spread, broadcast, disperse, strew, disseminate, distribute drill, dibble, put in the ground literary bestrew - 1.1 Plant the seeds of (a plant or crop)
catch crops should be sown after minimal cultivation Example sentencesExamples - The crop was sown during December 1997 and harvested in late March 1998.
- Gardeners in frost-free areas can continue to sow beets, cabbage, carrots, lettuce, peas, radishes, and Swiss chard.
- In the field, crops are often sown in late winter or early spring, with risks of prolonged root chilling during vegetative growth.
- They later sowed flowers and grass along the stretch of ground immediately behind the face of the wall and the wire fence.
- However, food supply has deteriorated as fewer and fewer farmers exist and little or no grain crops are sown.
- Grass was sown and the soil was top-dressed but, in the cooler weather of autumn, growth was slow.
- Maize was sown on two dates in each year; thus, plants sown early were exposed to low temperature, whereas those sown later developed under more favourable conditions.
- Many nurseries carry this plant, but it's not too late to sow a crop.
- Afghan farmers have returned to cotton cultivation, sowing the crop over 6,000 hectares of land in the northern Kunduz province after decades of strife.
- The early commercial pea crops weren't sown in rows like home gardens, but were planted over the whole paddock and required a great deal of bending over to harvest the sweet green pods.
- If you have a long growing season, sow a second crop in early summer, because the plants you start in spring will deteriorate before the season ends.
- And there's no joy for farmers getting ready to sow winter crops, with diesel prices also set to rise.
- By mid 1843 matters had improved and many of the settlers had cattle, sown a crop and found time, money and labour to build substantial houses.
- There was no machinery so the farmer had to sow his crop by hand.
- In 1947 the last wheat crop was sown and five years later the last farmer left followed by the last resident in 1954.
- On one farm I know in Perthshire they have not even been able to sow their grass, let alone cut it.
- Trees and bush were often cleared from areas where grass was sown, he said.
- It is the first festival after the monsoon - traditionally a period when warfare was suspended and fighting men went back to their villages to sow their crops - so the timing is significant.
- Kale, mustard and turnips can be sown as edible winter cover crops that also can feed chickens or grazing animals in late winter.
- They are otherwise treated as annuals and a fresh crop is sown from seed yearly.
- 1.2 Plant (a piece of land) with seed.
the field used to be sown with oats Example sentencesExamples - The drought has caused great harm to the growing of wheat in the province, with more than about 733,000 hectares of wheat land unable to be sown.
- ‘In previous years, no one even bothered to plant crops because our lands were dry like a desert, but that has all changed and everyone is sowing their land,’ he said.
- As a result, 14,313 acres of land were sown a second time around.
- 1.3be sown with Be thickly covered with.
the night sky was sown with stars Example sentencesExamples - It is easy to keep and breed in the laboratory, living happily in petri dishes that have been sown with lawns of Escherichia coli bacteria.
- 1.4 Lay or plant (an explosive mine) or cover (territory) with mines.
the field had both British and German mines sown in it Example sentencesExamples - The British estimate that some 25,000 land mines, mostly sown by Argentine forces in the 1982 war with Britain, remain.
- His 313th Bomb Wing also sowed 12,000 naval mines in ports and waterways, sinking almost 1 million tons of shipping in about four months.
- They had sown a lot of mines in the roads and fields nearby and when walking from our house to the flight line we had to stay within a yardwide path which had been cleared of mines and marked with strips of white tape.
- His fighters laid siege to a country's cities, starved and enslaved its people, and sowed its fields with mines.
- Hikers in the national forest who stumble into a clearing full of cannabis need to backtrack out very carefully; pot farms are often sown with mines.
- Morocco, which has not signed the 1997 Ottawa Convention that bans anti-personnel mines, is believed to have sown about seven million mines in the region.
- After the Soviet Army sowed the passes with mines it ceased and has never, so far as I know, recommenced.
- Mines can be sown in deep water, and are propelled at high speed towards a target, like a miniature homing torpedo.
2Disseminate or introduce (something undesirable) the new policy has sown confusion and doubt Example sentencesExamples - But two accounting issues also may be sowing confusion.
- We should judge cases on an individual basis - and remember that tedious clichés about ‘playing God’ do little to advance understanding, but a lot to sow confusion.
- His presentation was consistent with one whose goal is to sow doubt about evolution, and to gain more recruits and allies than he already has.
- Again, modern science's intrusion into a realm where it tends to sow confusion lies at the heart of the matter.
- Not only does this harm individual patients, but it also sows a dangerous confusion in the minds of people living with HIV, decision makers and the general public.
- The complexity of this debate has sown confusion among feminist human rights activists, undermining the effectiveness of the global feminist movement.
- Martin has the same gift for misunderstanding everyone and sowing chaos and confusion.
- I sensed he was mildly irritated, but also knew I'd succeeded in sowing a doubt in his mind.
- Should Kansas voters decide to chisel the prohibition into the state constitution, they also will be sowing confusion and inviting litigation.
- It's a confidence game updated and used for political, or in this case, the artist's, purposes, which seem to lie partly in sowing confusion.
- His openness and willingness to speak to the media sowed confusion rather than clarity.
- This is designed to sow doubts among his followers about his authenticity.
- They serve to undermine social consciousness and sow political confusion.
- What happened to the record industry in 1948 was the result of dueling technical standards sowing market confusion.
- How long they get away with it depends on how long they can sow confusion and doubt.
- Don't let's spoil it by creating hydra-headed initiatives that end up competing with one another and sowing confusion in their wake.
- They sow doubt not only in the minds of the young men but also in the mature minds of army and naval officers and even of certain of our historians.
- Or the collapse could all be part of a republican game plan to sow confusion among Unionists and reap the electoral rewards.
- These attacks could not have been better designed to sow doubt.
- But they are sowing confusion amid the forces of democracy.
Synonyms cause, bring about, occasion, create, give rise to, lead to, produce, engender, generate, induce, invite, implant, plant, lodge, prompt, evoke, elicit, initiate, precipitate, instigate, trigger, spark off, provoke end in, culminate in, finish in, terminate in, involve, mean, entail, necessitate promote, foster, foment formal redound to literary beget
Phrases sow the seed (or seeds) of Do something which will eventually bring about (a particular result) the seeds of dissension had been sown Example sentencesExamples - Success sows the seeds of future failure, and failure may bring a later success.
- The common thread that ran across the observations made by the leaders was that religion is a tool that should foster one's inner growth and not sow the seeds of discord.
- This experience sowed the seeds of the eventual skepticism I'd later feel towards much of my first church's teaching and practice.
- Only the disapprovingly arched eyebrow of the undercover trading standards investigator sows the seeds of doubt.
- A steady exodus of educated women is worsening a gender gap among eastern Germany's young and could be sowing the seeds of social upheaval.
- Such are the quirks of youth that can herald sudden fancies, and occasionally sow the seeds of a lifetime's obsession.
- Still ahead on the program, women in one Egyptian village are sowing the seeds of economic success, as traditional art meets high fashion.
- Over 100 years previously, Rousseau, in a broader educational context, sowed the seeds of what is sometimes called the ‘child-centred’ view of education.
- But if we persist in our short-sighted and, let face it, greedy attitude to school places, then we're sowing the seeds of future anarchy.
- In my view it is this sort of indifference and ignorance to other people of the world that sows the seeds of terrorism.
Derivatives noun ˈsəʊəˈsoʊr Alon's idea, which became his master's thesis, was to feed the birds directly, by scattering corn near the lake with a mechanical sower. Example sentencesExamples - And like the New Testament parable of the sower and the seed, it remains to be seen whether the pope's prayers will fall on stony ground or whether they bear much fruit.
- In the late 1980s, land mines in the thousands had become a post-war hazard for sowers as they returned to the fields in which they had not been able to work during wartime.
- Oats had to be transported to the field where the sower, carrying a supply in a canvas apron hanging around his neck, used both hands to scatter seed as he walked.
- He observes the annual round of sowers and barley harvesters, goes stubblewalking, and contemplates how the modern combine has forever changed life for rural farmers.
Origin Old English sāwan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zaaien and German säen. Sow, in the sense to plant is Old English and had the sense ‘disseminate’ from early on. The image of disseminate (Late Middle English) is the same, for it comes from Latin semen (Late Middle English) meaning ‘seed’. Seed (Old English) in turn comes from the same Germanic root as sow. The differently pronounced sow that is the female pig is also Old English, and goes back to an Indo-European root shared by Latis sus and Greek hus which suggests they were on the menu for our early ancestors.
Rhymes allow, avow, Bilbao, Bissau, bough, bow, bow-wow, brow, cacao, chow, ciao, cow, dhow, Dow, endow, Foochow, Frau, Hangzhou, Hough, how, Howe, kowtow, Lao, Liao, Macao, Macau, miaow, Mindanao, mow, now, ow, Palau, plough (US plow), pow, prow, row, scow, Slough, sough, Tao, thou, vow, wow, Yangshao aglow, ago, alow, although, apropos, art nouveau, Bamako, Bardot, beau, Beaujolais Nouveau, below, bestow, blow, bo, Boileau, bons mots, Bordeaux, Bow, bravo, bro, cachepot, cheerio, Coe, crow, Defoe, de trop, doe, doh, dos-à-dos, do-si-do, dough, dzo, Flo, floe, flow, foe, foreknow, foreshow, forgo, Foucault, froe, glow, go, good-oh, go-slow, grow, gung-ho, Heathrow, heave-ho, heigh-ho, hello, ho, hoe, ho-ho, jo, Joe, kayo, know, lo, low, maillot, malapropos, Marceau, mho, Miró, mo, Mohs, Monroe, mot, mow, Munro, no, Noh, no-show, oh, oho, outgo, outgrow, owe, Perrault, pho, po, Poe, pro, quid pro quo, reshow, righto, roe, Rouault, row, Rowe, sew, shew, show, sloe, slow, snow, so, soh, status quo, stow, Stowe, strow, tally-ho, though, throw, tic-tac-toe, to-and-fro, toe, touch-and-go, tow, trow, undergo, undersow, voe, whacko, whoa, wo, woe, Xuzhou, yo, yo-ho-ho, Zhengzhou, Zhou noun saʊsaʊ 1An adult female pig, especially one which has farrowed. Example sentencesExamples - A day before the sows are ready to farrow, the farrowing boxes are set up in the rooms.
- In the fall, he makes a daily chore out of selecting the best ears to plant the following season and feeding the culled ears to his gestating sows on pasture.
- Crates must be so designed that the farrowing sow will have a clear space behind her to facilitate easy farrowing and also able to prevent the newly born piglets from getting squashed.
- Claw lesions were reported to be more common in loose-housed sows than in either tethered or stallhoused sows.
- Planners are concerned about the proposed new building to house pregnant sows which would have a floorspace of 400 square metres and a ridge height of eight metres.
- On average 800,000 pigs are slaughtered every year in New Zealand while some 50,000 sows are retained for breeding.
- The sow's milk production limits the growth of pigs prior to weaning.
- Pregnant sows can still be kept in sow stalls for the first four weeks of their 16 1/2-week pregnancy and the lengthy phase-out period.
- However, individually housed sows can be protected from aggressive physical interactions if partitions are in place.
- Tethering may cause a sow to attempt to escape, especially when sows first experience the tether.
- Apart from not seeing as many ploughs, you don't now see as many sows or cows scattered throughout the countryside.
- Why then, Lay wondered, are other sows so restless that their movements endanger piglets in those first 12 hours?
- When breeding sows outlived their purpose they were sent to slaughter.
- Lactation insufficiency in the sow is an extremely complex syndrome, and over 30 different etiologies have been associated with the problem.
- At the start of the industry's depression in 1998 there were 850,000 breeding sows in the UK.
- When sows are housed in a social group, the experimental unit is clearly the pen or group of sows.
- The practice may be warranted, however, to prevent injuries to pigs and sows.
- Their pigs forage in fields and woods, their sows only produce two litters of piglets a year and pigs are prepared at the farm butchery, so there's no transport of live animals.
- In stalls, the sow can move within the limits of the bars or fences.
- In those years, farmers typically raised only 25 or 30 pigs and three or four sows, he said.
- 1.1 The female of certain other mammals, e.g. the guinea pig.
Example sentencesExamples - In Yellowstone, the loss of even half a dozen adult sows could tip the population into a downward spiral.
- Management of the trial was designed to minimise adverse welfare effects on the badgers and included a three-month period in the spring during which no culling took place in order to protect lactating sows and their cubs.
- Bill and Madeline had even schooled the children in poses for various combinations of bears: a solo male, a sow with cubs.
- It was our fourth day out and we had seen a few deer and lots of bears, including a grizzly sow and cub that had run out right in front of us while we were coming up to the hunting spot.
- Once he was filmed crawling along the ground singing as he approached a sow and two cubs.
- These days, in fact, he tries to identify bears - such as the sow and her cubs we're looking for - that might get hooked and move them well before they do.
- If the sow has not eaten enough to sustain herself over the hibernation, the egg will not implant.
2A large block of metal (larger than a ‘pig’) made by smelting. Example sentencesExamples - He said most of the stock is ingot, whereas more consumers prefer T-bar or sow.
Phrases you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear proverb You can't create a fine product from inferior materials. Example sentencesExamples - Thompson says, ‘you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.’
- As the old saying goes, you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
- My grandmother used to tell me you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
- But you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
Origin Old English sugu; related to Dutch zeug, German Sau, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin sus and Greek hus 'pig'. verbsōsoʊ [with object]1Plant (seed) by scattering it on or in the earth. sow a thin layer of seeds on top Example sentencesExamples - The greatest difficulty in raising primroses from seeds however, is sowing the seeds in the proper sort of seed bed.
- Two seeds were sown into each pot and thinned down after emergence to standardize initial seedling size.
- If you forgot to sow some seeds, young tender perennial plants can be bought, potted into individual containers and grown on.
- Four seeds were sown per pot and thinned to a single plant nearest the center.
- Three seeds were sown and plants thinned to one per pot when the first trifoliate leaf emerged.
- Thankfully, I had the presence of mind to get straight outside and plant the Irises, spread the fertilizer and sow the grass seed before it got dark.
- In another area, he sows seeds to attract birds like linnets, reed buntings and bramblings.
- Now is the perfect time to sow a few seeds or plant out some seedlings.
- To avoid future problems, make sure all seed trays are thoroughly cleaned before use, fill them with fresh, sterilised seed compost, sow the seeds thinly to prevent overcrowding and irrigate with mains water.
- Most gardeners propagate sagos from offsets from the mother plant, but you can sow fertilized seeds.
- With wheat, for example, men tend to prepare the earth and sow the seed, while women and children do much of the weeding.
- He sows seeds by broadcasting them on the ground in February, the coldest month of the year.
- Seeds were sown on 14 Apr. and the matured plants were harvested on 16 Aug. before the onset of flowering.
- The lid has 49 corresponding spikes which make perfectly central holes in the compost for you to sow your seeds in.
- So, never mind the fact that it's too late for plants, you can sow seeds in neat little rows now.
- When you sow a seed or plant a tree, either the seed will germinate and the tree will grow, or they will die.
- It is too late in the year to sow seeds, but there is still time to order plants for delivery in March.
- To sow the seeds, take a handful of seeds from the bag and fling them in front of your body in a fanning motion, letting the seeds roll down your fingers.
- Gibson cautions that it is important to sow crop seeds correctly.
- If you're willing to do a little more work and exercise some patience, there is a way to eradicate or at least greatly reduce your weed population before you sow your flower seed.
Synonyms scatter, spread, broadcast, disperse, strew, disseminate, distribute - 1.1 Plant the seeds of (a plant or crop)
the corn had just been sown Example sentencesExamples - And there's no joy for farmers getting ready to sow winter crops, with diesel prices also set to rise.
- On one farm I know in Perthshire they have not even been able to sow their grass, let alone cut it.
- If you have a long growing season, sow a second crop in early summer, because the plants you start in spring will deteriorate before the season ends.
- The early commercial pea crops weren't sown in rows like home gardens, but were planted over the whole paddock and required a great deal of bending over to harvest the sweet green pods.
- Trees and bush were often cleared from areas where grass was sown, he said.
- They are otherwise treated as annuals and a fresh crop is sown from seed yearly.
- Afghan farmers have returned to cotton cultivation, sowing the crop over 6,000 hectares of land in the northern Kunduz province after decades of strife.
- It is the first festival after the monsoon - traditionally a period when warfare was suspended and fighting men went back to their villages to sow their crops - so the timing is significant.
- The crop was sown during December 1997 and harvested in late March 1998.
- In 1947 the last wheat crop was sown and five years later the last farmer left followed by the last resident in 1954.
- There was no machinery so the farmer had to sow his crop by hand.
- In the field, crops are often sown in late winter or early spring, with risks of prolonged root chilling during vegetative growth.
- Many nurseries carry this plant, but it's not too late to sow a crop.
- Maize was sown on two dates in each year; thus, plants sown early were exposed to low temperature, whereas those sown later developed under more favourable conditions.
- They later sowed flowers and grass along the stretch of ground immediately behind the face of the wall and the wire fence.
- Kale, mustard and turnips can be sown as edible winter cover crops that also can feed chickens or grazing animals in late winter.
- By mid 1843 matters had improved and many of the settlers had cattle, sown a crop and found time, money and labour to build substantial houses.
- Grass was sown and the soil was top-dressed but, in the cooler weather of autumn, growth was slow.
- Gardeners in frost-free areas can continue to sow beets, cabbage, carrots, lettuce, peas, radishes, and Swiss chard.
- However, food supply has deteriorated as fewer and fewer farmers exist and little or no grain crops are sown.
- 1.2 Plant (a piece of land) with seed.
the field used to be sown with oats Example sentencesExamples - ‘In previous years, no one even bothered to plant crops because our lands were dry like a desert, but that has all changed and everyone is sowing their land,’ he said.
- As a result, 14,313 acres of land were sown a second time around.
- The drought has caused great harm to the growing of wheat in the province, with more than about 733,000 hectares of wheat land unable to be sown.
- 1.3be sown with Be thickly covered with.
we walked through a valley sown with boulders Example sentencesExamples - It is easy to keep and breed in the laboratory, living happily in petri dishes that have been sown with lawns of Escherichia coli bacteria.
- 1.4 Cause to appear or spread.
the new policy has sown confusion and doubt Example sentencesExamples - We should judge cases on an individual basis - and remember that tedious clichés about ‘playing God’ do little to advance understanding, but a lot to sow confusion.
- Martin has the same gift for misunderstanding everyone and sowing chaos and confusion.
- They sow doubt not only in the minds of the young men but also in the mature minds of army and naval officers and even of certain of our historians.
- But they are sowing confusion amid the forces of democracy.
- Don't let's spoil it by creating hydra-headed initiatives that end up competing with one another and sowing confusion in their wake.
- His openness and willingness to speak to the media sowed confusion rather than clarity.
- His presentation was consistent with one whose goal is to sow doubt about evolution, and to gain more recruits and allies than he already has.
- These attacks could not have been better designed to sow doubt.
- Again, modern science's intrusion into a realm where it tends to sow confusion lies at the heart of the matter.
- I sensed he was mildly irritated, but also knew I'd succeeded in sowing a doubt in his mind.
- It's a confidence game updated and used for political, or in this case, the artist's, purposes, which seem to lie partly in sowing confusion.
- Should Kansas voters decide to chisel the prohibition into the state constitution, they also will be sowing confusion and inviting litigation.
- The complexity of this debate has sown confusion among feminist human rights activists, undermining the effectiveness of the global feminist movement.
- Or the collapse could all be part of a republican game plan to sow confusion among Unionists and reap the electoral rewards.
- Not only does this harm individual patients, but it also sows a dangerous confusion in the minds of people living with HIV, decision makers and the general public.
- They serve to undermine social consciousness and sow political confusion.
- This is designed to sow doubts among his followers about his authenticity.
- But two accounting issues also may be sowing confusion.
- How long they get away with it depends on how long they can sow confusion and doubt.
- What happened to the record industry in 1948 was the result of dueling technical standards sowing market confusion.
Synonyms cause, bring about, occasion, create, give rise to, lead to, produce, engender, generate, induce, invite, implant, plant, lodge, prompt, evoke, elicit, initiate, precipitate, instigate, trigger, spark off, provoke
Phrases sow the seeds (or seed) of Do something that will eventually bring about (a particular result, especially a disastrous one) the seeds of dissension had been sown Example sentencesExamples - Only the disapprovingly arched eyebrow of the undercover trading standards investigator sows the seeds of doubt.
- Success sows the seeds of future failure, and failure may bring a later success.
- A steady exodus of educated women is worsening a gender gap among eastern Germany's young and could be sowing the seeds of social upheaval.
- But if we persist in our short-sighted and, let face it, greedy attitude to school places, then we're sowing the seeds of future anarchy.
- The common thread that ran across the observations made by the leaders was that religion is a tool that should foster one's inner growth and not sow the seeds of discord.
- This experience sowed the seeds of the eventual skepticism I'd later feel towards much of my first church's teaching and practice.
- Such are the quirks of youth that can herald sudden fancies, and occasionally sow the seeds of a lifetime's obsession.
- Over 100 years previously, Rousseau, in a broader educational context, sowed the seeds of what is sometimes called the ‘child-centred’ view of education.
- In my view it is this sort of indifference and ignorance to other people of the world that sows the seeds of terrorism.
- Still ahead on the program, women in one Egyptian village are sowing the seeds of economic success, as traditional art meets high fashion.
Origin Old English sāwan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zaaien and German säen. nounsaʊsou 1An adult female pig, especially one which has farrowed. Example sentencesExamples - The sow's milk production limits the growth of pigs prior to weaning.
- At the start of the industry's depression in 1998 there were 850,000 breeding sows in the UK.
- However, individually housed sows can be protected from aggressive physical interactions if partitions are in place.
- On average 800,000 pigs are slaughtered every year in New Zealand while some 50,000 sows are retained for breeding.
- In those years, farmers typically raised only 25 or 30 pigs and three or four sows, he said.
- A day before the sows are ready to farrow, the farrowing boxes are set up in the rooms.
- Claw lesions were reported to be more common in loose-housed sows than in either tethered or stallhoused sows.
- Tethering may cause a sow to attempt to escape, especially when sows first experience the tether.
- When sows are housed in a social group, the experimental unit is clearly the pen or group of sows.
- When breeding sows outlived their purpose they were sent to slaughter.
- Why then, Lay wondered, are other sows so restless that their movements endanger piglets in those first 12 hours?
- In stalls, the sow can move within the limits of the bars or fences.
- Pregnant sows can still be kept in sow stalls for the first four weeks of their 16 1/2-week pregnancy and the lengthy phase-out period.
- Their pigs forage in fields and woods, their sows only produce two litters of piglets a year and pigs are prepared at the farm butchery, so there's no transport of live animals.
- Apart from not seeing as many ploughs, you don't now see as many sows or cows scattered throughout the countryside.
- Planners are concerned about the proposed new building to house pregnant sows which would have a floorspace of 400 square metres and a ridge height of eight metres.
- Crates must be so designed that the farrowing sow will have a clear space behind her to facilitate easy farrowing and also able to prevent the newly born piglets from getting squashed.
- Lactation insufficiency in the sow is an extremely complex syndrome, and over 30 different etiologies have been associated with the problem.
- The practice may be warranted, however, to prevent injuries to pigs and sows.
- In the fall, he makes a daily chore out of selecting the best ears to plant the following season and feeding the culled ears to his gestating sows on pasture.
- 1.1 The female of certain other mammals, e.g. the guinea pig.
Example sentencesExamples - Once he was filmed crawling along the ground singing as he approached a sow and two cubs.
- These days, in fact, he tries to identify bears - such as the sow and her cubs we're looking for - that might get hooked and move them well before they do.
- It was our fourth day out and we had seen a few deer and lots of bears, including a grizzly sow and cub that had run out right in front of us while we were coming up to the hunting spot.
- Bill and Madeline had even schooled the children in poses for various combinations of bears: a solo male, a sow with cubs.
- Management of the trial was designed to minimise adverse welfare effects on the badgers and included a three-month period in the spring during which no culling took place in order to protect lactating sows and their cubs.
- In Yellowstone, the loss of even half a dozen adult sows could tip the population into a downward spiral.
- If the sow has not eaten enough to sustain herself over the hibernation, the egg will not implant.
2A large block of metal (larger than a “pig”) made by smelting. Example sentencesExamples - He said most of the stock is ingot, whereas more consumers prefer T-bar or sow.
Origin Old English sugu; related to Dutch zeug, German Sau, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin sus and Greek hus ‘pig’. |