| Over the weekend and during the school holidays families can hope that their chosen piglet crosses the line first in the pig races. |
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| A piglet from the porcherie costs FRw 5000 but the fatted pig can sell for FRw 15000 or a little more if a sow is in pig. |
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| Furthermore, fewer postural changes by the gilt may be an advantageous behavior to help lessen the incidence of pre-weaning piglet mortality. |
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| Of course, the piglet, like all animal models, has its limitations, including relative developmental maturity at birth. |
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| I was very taken by the man who oinked like a startled piglet when he laughed, which was virtually non-stop. |
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| In fact, I once saw a woman sitting on the ground with a bristly little piglet on her lap. |
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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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| But this farmer is a kindly old man that loves his wayward piglet since his wife died in a thresher accident. |
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| This year the piglet rooms have provided a new way to attract students' attention and donations. |
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| At the net, King handed Riggs a squirming piglet — code for male chauvinist pig. |
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| Sows and piglet production is however declining, both in terms of number of farms as in number of animals. |
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| Persil the piglet could be forgiven for feeling the odd one out. |
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| Young, particularly oppositional, factions, are no 'nicer' in relation to the old social chauvinist parties than a little piglet is 'nicer' than an old swine. |
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| Stuff the piglet loin with the mixed fruit mixture, sew up or clamp together. |
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| Alain Indria is the creator of this kitschy, tropical oasis where a golden cow and pink piglet play first fiddle. |
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| Mr Wig was saved when an inspector found his owner was unable to keep him when he grew from piglet to porker and he has been in the RSPCA's care for three years. |
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| This day, however, our children got to see how these animals behave as babies and we were all surprised at how loudly one piglet squealed. |
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| The educational group encouraged our children to be very still and calm around the piglet. |
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| Born dead are lowered by intervening when the last piglet is dry or when the last one has arrived 20 to 30 minutes after. |
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| The winner was a plump piglet wearing a pair of headphones, christened Oink. |
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| At the same time the number of live piglet births per sow per year has risen in recent years, thanks to breeding for increased fertility. |
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| A piglet pep squad cheers from the sidelines, while Meep the Bird tweets the action online. |
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| The farmers responsible for them receive a piglet from each litter. |
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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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| To be eligible for aid for piglet production it is necessary for the farmer, in addition to meeting general conditions, to have at least two sows. |
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| Who can verify the actual age of a piglet prior to castration? |
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| Piglets shall not be kept on flat decks or in piglet cages. |
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| Lower birth weight not only reduces the chance of piglet survival in the first days after birth and up to weaning, but also affects growth rate after weaning and during fattening as well as carcass and meat quality. |
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| However, in the case of lamb, kid and piglet carcases, health marking may take the form of a label or tag but it must be possible to use them only once. |
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| Feed quality is a key element of the breeding of the piglet. |
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| In summary, it must be remembered that when a piglet has to dedicate energy to keeping warm it has less resources available for growth, development, disease protection and all its other necessary processes of life. |
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| The natural plant extracts contained in this feed act at the intestines and stimulates by this the global immunity of the piglet in order to keep it at a high level of vigilance. |
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| It is Christmas Eve, but Pippin the piglet is downhearted. |
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| The piglet supply derived from the epidemiological model is used as input for a sector-level market and trade model that simulates the pig market in the Netherlands. |
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| At Restaurant la Chamade, a pounds 29 set menu includes snails in cream with ham, grilled piglet and Reblochon cheese. |
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| Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth. |
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| Levi is a gorgeous 4-year-old grey and white Pibble, and he loves interacting with the baby piglet. |
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| The most serious incident occurred in December when Elvis, a male Visayan warty pig, attacked his partner Manilla, who had just given birth to a piglet, killing both. |
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| Physicochemical changes to starch granules during micronisation and extrusion processing of wheat, and their implications for starch digestibility in the newly weaned piglet. |
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| The game of Poohsticks was invented here by Winnie-the-Pooh and was first played by him and his friends Rabbit, Piglet, and Roo. |
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| Among the verboten items is one employee's box of tissues, because it features a representation of Winnie the Pooh and Piglet. |
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| Benjamin Hoff used Milne's characters in The Tao of Pooh and The Te of Piglet to explain Taoism. |
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| After Christopher Robin, his closest friend is Piglet, and he most often chooses to spend his time with one or both of them. |
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| The rest of Christopher Robin Milne's toys, Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo and Tigger, were incorporated into Milne's stories. |
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| Ashdown Forest in England where the Pooh stories are set is a popular tourist attraction, and includes the wooden Pooh Bridge where Pooh and Piglet invented Poohsticks. |
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