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D-farrowing Dictionary

Farrowing

A sow giving birth

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Plain meaning
A sow giving birth
How to use it
Provide farrowing pens and close supervision to cut piglet deaths.
South African benchmark
South Africa's industrialised pig units run intensive farrowing systems (Article 67).
Country notes
Applies the same way in all five markets.
Go and read
M11-U6
Calculate it
T-M11-02 Sow Productivity
Library sources
LIB-A067, LIB-P-Pork
See also
Sow, Mortality rate
Pork: the product, the five stages of the business, the unit it is sold by and where it is producedPork: how the business runsSold bykg carcass weight1Sow farrows2Wean3Grow4Finish5Abattoir or butcherZAZWZMBWNAProduces commerciallyImports most needsZA South Africa, ZW Zimbabwe, ZM Zambia, BW Botswana, NA Namibia
From the Pork Major, where this term is introduced.

Introduced in M11 Pork.