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Gestating and lactating sows were bled from the anterior vena cava.
The gestating and lactating sow will require 4-1/2 to six gallons per day.
We are floating, gestating organisms, transacting with our environment, eating all the while.
I'll be thinking about something and it will be gestating as a column or an essay.
No matter how much it is taken for granted, the accomplishment of gestating and birthing even one child is an extraordinary event; perhaps even more praise should be given to the woman who births twins or triplets or quadruplets.
The pigs were divided into three categories (nursery to finishing pigs, gestating to lactating sows and boars) and the chickens were divided into two categories (broilers and layers).
The scheme has been gestating during various administrations in Birmingham, has survived and may now finally come to fruition.
Some researchers have already conducted such "fetus farming" experiments with animalsfor example, by gestating cloned calves to four months and then aborting them to obtain their kidney and heart tissues for transplantation.
But after all his gestating, Teachout has birthed a book that reads more like one of those short biographies of famous people sold under the "Penguin Lives" rubric than it does the Manchesterian epic he promised his readers more than a decade ago.
Although described as "therapeutic" cloning, Weissman has admitted that the resulting blastocyst, if implanted in a womb, would be fully capable of gestating into a full-term human baby.
In the area of proper nutrition, thought and extra effort must be given to available supplies of fresh ice-free water at all times for all classes of hogs: the baby pig, the weanling, growing-finishing, gestating, and the lactating sow.
The energy requirement of gestating gilts and sows should be between 6,678 and 8,182 kcal of metabolizable energy (ME)/d, which is 1,650 kcal higher than previous recommendations (NRC, 1998).