Miniature terracotta figurines include girls and women carrying piglets and torches. |
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Experts also believe that vaccinating piglets against the disease may be a useful preventive measure. |
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For the children a special attraction is the petting zoo allowing them to see and touch foals, piglets, lambs and chicks. |
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After four or five days in space, the sperm will be returned to Earth where it will used to make test-tube piglets. |
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The only things living were a sow, her piglets, and some hens scratching in the dirt. |
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About 14 weaner piglets escaped from the farm when someone cut a hole in the fence of their enclosure. |
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This increase has resulted in piglets with a lower birth weight, which in turn can lead to an increase in piglet mortality. |
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In the short term, if anyone is looking for weaners, we know of a breeder in Biggar who has piglets available which were born last weekend. |
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Julie Morrow-Tesch's experiments with piglets in a maze showed that it was the mother's milk scent on the udder that guided the piglets. |
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To make matters worse, the bank was going to foreclose on my farm, and had just repossessed all my piglets. |
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This sow seemed unconcerned with the onlookers, being more than content just to keep an eye on her new litter of piglets. |
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Equally white in The Sow's Litter, five well-rounded piglets enjoy their dam's bounty as she inspects her neat pail and trough of fodder. |
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Then more piglets die after they have been born, by being laid on by their mothers or whatever the problem is. |
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The production phases with the highest use were nursing piglets fed creep feed and nursery piglets fed starter rations. |
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In many areas where there are feral pigs, wild sows and piglets are captured, male shoats castrated, and then the pigs are housed or penned. |
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Why then, Lay wondered, are other sows so restless that their movements endanger piglets in those first 12 hours? |
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He says the granite water fountain troughs reminded him of his Uncle Vincent's piglets suckling at a sow. |
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After their adventure, the piglets will be relaxing at Divernagh and feasting on pig meal and scraps until they are re-housed. |
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The isolated piglets lost more weight than the transported piglets, and their glucose levels were lower. |
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Recent research has shown that yoghurt can cure diarrhea in pigs, one of the main killers of piglets in local farms. |
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Children will also delight in the baby piglets, kittens, ducks, and hens that roam free. |
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Everyone seems to adore the babies, particular our very young piglets and our ducklings. |
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The width at the bottom will let the sow be comfortable when lying down and the piglets will be able to reach the teats. |
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Stars of the stamps include a pig and piglets, a Border Collie puppy and a duck and a drake. |
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We are eagerly anticipating the arrival of many more baby animals, including lambs and more piglets, over the forthcoming weeks. |
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Children can handle and feed new born calves, piglets, goats, lambs, chicks and rabbits. |
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The sow is taken away to be made pregnant again, and is forced to produce as many piglets as possible until she is literally exhausted. |
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However, many piglets die from having mommy pig accidentally crush them. |
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The raptors enjoy a year-round diet of piglets, but also prey on foxes. |
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It's worth a look, if only to spot the adorable striped wild piglets! |
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As a consequence, the marketing of piglets and their transport to fattening units are temporarily prohibited in those zones. |
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In addition congenitally infected piglets are persistently viraemic and shed the virus for months. |
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Piglets with a high voluntary feed intake were compared with piglets fed restrictedly. |
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Backus et al. reported no differences in number of live-born piglets among sows housed in stalls, free-access stalls, ESF group systems, or trickle-feeding group systems. |
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The yard also has a pigsty with a sow that produces up to 20 piglets a year. |
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Although generating swine clones appears to pose more technical difficulties than bovine clones, once piglets are born, they appear to be healthy. |
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The British fox is an opportunist predator, which kills poultry, new-born lambs and piglets, as well as young hares and wild ground-nesting birds. |
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Within a day of being born, piglets can experience tooth clipping, castration, tail docking and vaccination. |
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They frequently kill chickens, ducks, and even lambs and piglets. |
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He brought in 160 new piglets and let them run loose in the bedding. |
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Unlike turkey vultures, which eat carcasses and rarely attack livestock, black vultures will go after piglets, sheep and cows as well as dead animals. |
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But out of the long grass shot a warthog, her tail antennae-straight, with piglets scuttling behind. |
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In the depth of the forest the primeval stillness was a bit awesome until a family of wild piglets moved in and started to root reassuringly through the chestnuts at my feet. |
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Sows must be kept in groups except in the last stages of pregnancy and while piglets are suckling. |
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You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it, then the pig wheels out five piglets singing a ballad. |
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The wasting disease does not affect humans but causes a high fatality rate in piglets. |
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Elsewhere, piglets and rice seeds are distributed to mountaintop farms, yet the breeds and varieties are best-adapted to the hotter lowlands. |
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If the tolerance for weaned piglets has been shown, no separate study for pigs for fattening is required. |
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In my younger days I was haunted by the ghosts of piglets, and the memory of those phantom piglets snuffling at my feet remains a source of trauma for me even today. |
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A virus called PEDv is killing 100,000 Pigs and piglets each week, and shows no signs of stopping. |
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We have a sow farrowing operation, so we sell piglets at about five kilograms on average. |
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However, if you were to take those piglets and vaccinate them for those same common diseases, you could rear them in an open system. |
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The average sow has between eight and 12 piglets in a litter and gives birth about twice a year. |
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Half-grown piglets I have seen under the already-turning tree foliage seeking for acorns, sweet chestnuts, and beech mast. |
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Possibly during the Stenia, a festival celebrated two days earlier, piglets were thrown into an underground chamber, called a megaron. |
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The excited squeals of hungry piglets and the bleats of insistent lambs seem better designed for pestering reluctant mothers than for conveying a simple message of need. |
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Adding butyrate to the intravenous solution given to piglets who had parts of their intestine removed caused the intestinal tissue to grow and become functional. |
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The proposal also sets out rules to improve the living environment of pigs and piglets in general, setting requirements for living spaces, floor surfaces and proper feeding systems. |
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More importantly, we must not forget that in numerous countries farmers fatten their piglets themselves and hence have direct access to the compensation fund via the fattened pigs which they sell. |
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The study also demonstrated quicker alleviation of clinical symptoms and faster return to normal behaviour in piglets which received Metacam in comparison to animals which were not given analgesia. |
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Furthermore, dietary acidifiers have been widely used in piglets and there is limited study on the effect of organic acids in finishing pigs. |
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Giving pain-killers to each piglet in a litter would be cumbersome so the team is exploring the possibility of administering a single injection to a sow that would transfer pain killers through her milk to the piglets. |
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Anyway, it has been shown that in northern countries many more piglets die than in hot countries, simply because it is cold and the piglets cuddle up to the mothers and the mothers squash them. |
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After reviewing the prebiotic properties of the resistant dextrin, the poster focused on results obtained in piglets on gut mucosal immunity and functionality. |
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The two pronged study will examine the best way to deliver painkillers to piglets before they undergo any procedure and the least painful way to de-horn calves. |
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Effects of a-ketoglutarate on energy status in the intestinal mucosa of weaned piglets chronically challenged with lipopolysaccharide. |
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In many EU markets, changing attitudes meanwhile require or recommend the use of analgesia to help piglets to better cope with pain and to more quickly recover from the castration procedure. |
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Iron should therefore be given to piglets in complementary feedingstuffs with a high content of this element as far as, during the suckling period, piglets are only fed with milk. |
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The claims for pet therapy are well established – if not firmly proved – and this week university students taking exams have been given an opportunity to cuddle up to piglets to relieve their stress. |
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Discover what efforts are being made to increase sow productivity, in terms of total weight of weaned piglets, and to study the welfare, environment, nutrition and endocrinology of sows during gestation and lactation. |
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Most of these piglets are travelling less than 6-8 hours. |
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After a two-year program in farm management at a nearby college, Chaîné took over the nursery where Boutin rears batches of 2,000 piglets, allowing him to concentrate on his 4,000 hogs. |
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We're having no trouble getting rid of the piglets right now. |
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Besides the absence of sensitivity to protein level, these two studies also demonstrate that piglets are not sensitive to the amount of supplemental amino acids in the diet. |
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Should the mother be absent, the piglets lie closely pressed to each other. |
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The piglets are whelped in a nest constructed from twigs, grasses and leaves. |
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Should the mother die prematurely, the piglets are adopted by the other sows in the sounder. |
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By two weeks of age, the piglets begin accompanying their mother on her journeys. |
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Should danger be detected, the piglets take cover or stand immobile, relying on their camouflage to keep them hidden. |
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Wild boar can thrive in captivity, though piglets grow slowly and poorly without their mothers. |
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Our piglets, or baconers, aren't ready for bacon until they are 11 months old. |
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Passive immunization of piglets against enterotoxigenic colibacillosis by vaccinating dams with K88ac pili bearing bacterin. |
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You've Been Farmed HOARSE neighbours chewing cud, Poxy chickens looking good, Bully brats made of wood, Forlorn piglets stood and stood. |
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Effects of benzoic acid on growth performance, serum biochemical parameters, nutrient digestibility and digestive enzymes activities of jejuna digesta in weaner piglets. |
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The piglets do not leave the lair for their first week of life. |
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Some days he went out in the currach with her father and her brothers, out past Blue Island and Inishlackan, where the mackerel and sea salmon were fat as piglets. |
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Creatine plays a significant role in energy metabolism, which has been shown to have a major effect on the survival of newborn piglets until they're weaned. |
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Maintenance of villous height and crypt depth, and enhancement of disaccharide digestion and monosaccharide absorption, in piglets fed on cows' whole milk after weaning. |
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Vaccinated gilts and sows show a decreased transplacental virus transmission from infected females to piglets, one main reason why diseases can be perpetuated. |
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Effect of different dietary concentrations of spray-dried porcine plasma and a modified soyprotein product on the growth performance of piglets weaned at 6 kg body weight. |
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We assessed the reliability and accuracy of NIFT measurements at multiple locations on the body surface compared to rectal temperatures in gnotobiotic piglets. |
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