(a.) Not producing young in a given season or year; -- said only of cows.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a long piece on the Daily Beast, he also revealed that Mia Farrow had granted permission for her image to be used in film clips honouring Allen during the Golden Globes, and expressed surprise at her Twitter reaction.
(2) The self-serving transparency of her malevolence seemed so obvious I didn’t even hire a lawyer to defend myself.” He took a lie detector and passed, Allen said, but Mia Farrow declined to do so.
(3) Sows farrowed in the summer had larger (P less than .05) litters at birth and 14 d postfarrowing and greater (P less than .10) piglet and litter weight gain postfarrowing than those farrowed in the winter.
(4) Farrowing and weaning results after induced parturition resulting in farrowing on the 113th to 115th day showed no significant differences from the results for control sows farrowing spontaneously on the 112th to 115th day of gestation.
(5) Sows from a large farrow-to-finish operation in western Kentucky had late-term abortions.
(6) The agalactic sows farrowed a larger number of stillborn piglets, which indicates an early establishment of the disease.
(7) In a second experiment, 32 litters of pigs were farrowed in crates equipped with either solid, vertically slatted, horizontally slatted or diamond mesh creep partitions.
(8) Unobstructed re-intergration with further reproduction of animals which had received PGF2 alpha treatment is established with hard evidence on the basis of clinical examination of oestrus, ovulation, conception, and farrowing rates as well as by histological examination of the endometrium.
(9) There was a significant (at least P less than 0.05) positive correlation between the relaxin concentration and the farrowing interval at every time period from 14 to 2 h before delivery.
(10) Weight, heartgirth, backfat and body condition of sows was monitored in a commercial, farrow-to-finish unit during 1 yr. Measurements were obtained during the third, ninth and fifteenth week of gestation and the day after weaning.
(11) In trial 2, 97.9% of the sows farrowed within 30 hours after Cloprostenol injection (= partus rate 30).
(12) It was found that the mentioned measures in sows before parturition and their housing in a sanitized farrowing house during treatment generally improved the health of the sows and enabled the rearing of healthy piglets.
(13) The second group of piglets were cross-fostered each week, for up to eight weeks, onto newly farrowed sows which were postcolostrum.
(14) Indeed, Farrow brings genuine mystery to a nurturing figure who may not be as saintly as she seems.
(15) Of these sows, 67 farrowed and were used for this trial.
(16) Litter size in litters of any herd was not affected by a preceding farrowing-to-conception interval greater than 35 days.
(17) In such circumstances there is little evidence to support pre-farrowing treatment of the sow specifically against A. suum.
(18) The milk composition 14 days after farrowing was not affected by the late pregnancy feeding level.
(19) 2, 72 sows were randomly assigned to farrowing crates with four supplemental heat treatments: 1) one lateral 250-watt heater; 2) one lateral heater plus a 250-watt heater behind the sow during farrowing; 3) a hover with 100-watt light bulb; and 4) a hover with light bulb plus heater behind the sow during farrowing.
(20) The experts concluded there was no credible evidence of molestation; that Dylan Farrow had an inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality; and that Dylan Farrow had likely been coached by her mother, Mia Farrow.
Piglet
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Plasmid profiling was used to distinguish strains of lactobacilli inhabiting the digestive tract of piglets and the feces of sows.
(2) Serum from piglets of vaccinated sows had no more bactericidal activity than did sera from non-vaccinated sows.
(3) 1, diarrhea lowered the piglet's ability to maintain body temperature during the cold test.
(4) We examined the uptake of bovine serum albumin (BSA) from the intestine into the circulation of 3-week-old piglets infected with transmissible gastroenteritis virus.
(5) No virus was isolated from four control germ-free piglets.
(6) Piglets from litters with post-weaning diarrhoea had reduced weight gains after weaning and were 2.3 days older at 25 kg bodyweight than piglets from non-diarrhoeic litters.
(7) In the first of two studies, we randomized 2-d-old miniature piglets to receive bottle-feedings of a swine weaning milk formula with (group F + I) or without (group F) the addition of insulin.
(8) Eight ASDs were implanted subcutaneously in piglets and tested in situ weekly for 4 weeks.
(9) The incidence of stillbirth was higher in the PYR groups than the control group, but no major external malformation was observed in the piglets of the PYR groups.
(10) These data show that after seizures in piglets, the rise in CBF is associated with a persistent impairment of CBF autoregulation.
(11) Treatment of 7- to 12-week-old piglets with P. multocida DNT resulted in progressive AR.
(12) A defect was created in the thoracic trachea in nine piglets (10 kg) by excising a segment from the entire thoracic trachea proximal to the right upper lobe bronchus (3 to 3.5 cm in length) and 30% of the circumference in width (1 to 1.5 cm).
(13) Affected lymph nodes from 3 patients with Crohn's disease were homogenised and inoculated intramurally into the distal ileum of five piglets.
(14) Entry of the TGE virus into intestinal epithelial cells of newborn piglets is mediated through a network of cytoplasmic tubules of plasmalemma origin.
(15) Germfree colostrum-deprived piglets are immunologically "virgin" and extremely susceptible to microbial infection due to lack of passive maternal immunity.
(16) Breed had no effect on pretest concentration of plasma glucose and noradrenaline, but pretest concentrations of plasma free fatty acids (FFA) were higher (p less than 0.01) in the Ms than in Lw piglets and those of adrenaline were lower (p less than 0.01) in the Ms Lw piglets and those of adrenaline were lower (p less than 0.01) in the Ms piglets.
(17) Six piglets were inoculated in the same way but the infection was intranasal.
(18) Collected at the first hours (0, 6, 12, 24, 48) and days (3 and 5) of piglets life bone marrow was cultured (in vitro) during 48 and 72 hours in order to assess the efficiency of development and ability of isolated marrow cells to form erythroid colonies (CFU-E-Colony Forming Unit) and also to examine the erythroidal sensitivity to Ep addition.
(19) Jejunal biopsies were taken from two piglets before the experimental infection, from two piglets 12 h after the experimental infection and from five piglets at the end of the experiment, 46 h after infection.
(20) The following findings were obtained from histomorphological examination of 45 piglets with coli-bacillosis (with serotypical Escherichia coli detected) and ten piglets with coli-diarrhoea (with non-serotypical E. coli detected): Diarrhoea accompanying either disease was not attributable to catarrhal or haemorrhagic gastro-enteritis.