Sentences with word «piglet»

The ISPCA and Eurogroup for Animals who are Europe's leading animal welfare lobbying group are currently running a campaign to stop tail docking of piglets in the European Union.

Rated as one of the top five breeds for producing large litters of piglets with some of the highest birth weights, the Landrace also boasts one of the most efficient feed conversion ratios.

Just hours later I was sat in our local A&E department with Piglet who had taken a turn for the worse and ended up in resus.

Groupon once ran an ad with an image of a little piglet in red rain boots standing in the mud.

Investigators confirmed the connection of SADS - CoV to bats by identifying the new virus in the small intestine of piglets from the outbreak.

It's been six months since we started using the Cozy «N Safe Merlin Car Seat for Piglet on our travels.

Lou Anne Epperley was a 36 - year - old successful newspaper reporter in Oklahoma City when she attended an exotic livestock auction at El Reno's stockyards and locked eyes with a five - week - old potbellied piglet on the block.

I have to confess to wishing I could get one in my size, although I'm not sure I would look half as cute as Piglet does in hers.

The bright orange pods looked as innocent as newborn piglets suckling on a sow, but I had a hunch that they packed a punch.

Females and 4 - week - old piglets of both sexes were a little better than males and 3 - week - olds at remembering the first object, even after a two - day delay.

The banner picture with him smiling and hugging a cute little piglet does creep me out a little bit, but his bread book is quite amazing — it's filled with a variety of regional recipes, and the author has travelled around the country, interviewing and observing bakers in their own homes.

I chose my name because I was always the smallest one growing up just like piglet!

Or how about that kids who screams like a baby piglet when they don't get their way in the store... seriously?

There were these brand new piglets at the farm.

The analysis revealed that the brains of iron - deficient piglets did not fully recover.

In the new piglet clones, a gene that codes for a sugar on the surface of cells has been turned off.

«Nothing,» said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand.

So she gladly opened her heart to a sick piglet who had been crowded away from nourishing meals by his stronger siblings.

Instead, here is a video of Chris P. Bacon, a baby piglet who uses a wheelchair.

Researchers have finally seen inside the elusive moss piglet using a new laser scanning microscope.

Nathan Runkle — founder and president of Mercy For Animals — recounts the horrific incident (a fellow high school student that Runkle said slammed a baby piglet on a concrete floor during class) that prompted him to create the organization in 1999.

Yup, I'm actually writing about a breastfeeding pig... I was at a fair in NH, USA a couple of weeks ago and was fortunate enough to see this poor massive pig breastfeed MANY tiny piglets.

The SPCA rescued 34 four to eight week old calves, 4 cows, 35 goats, 3 sheep, 3 hens, 2 ducks, 5 young piglets, 15 dogs, and 4 kittens.

Scientists searched for the cause of a virus that was killing piglets in China and found that the source was horseshoe bats.

As well as the vegetable and herb gardens, there is a beautiful orchard for you to explore and during the summer you will be able to watch the pigs and piglets playing in the traditional pigsty with outdoor yard and mud bath.

Officially licensed from Disney, this red and yellow sleep sack echo's the famous colors of everyone's favorite Pooh bear and features an image of Winnie and his friend Piglet enjoying -LSB-...]

All three of my children have loved watching the episodes, and we are in the midst of it with Piglet enjoying the different adventures.

Yes, even piglets prefer new toys.

Compared with intestinal tissue from healthy piglets (left), samples from sick ones showed signs of SADS virus proteins (red, right).

The findings from the trials showed that the non-observer piglets used all possible techniques, confirming that that there was no predisposition or bias.

Skok says that pig breeders commonly sort piglets into different weight classes, so the heaviest babies nurse together with one mother while a different mother raises the weaker babies.

I didn't know all of this about myself until these two little pink piglets arrived.

Piglets weaned from their mother are given ear tags for identification and tracking while they grow.

Because piglet skulls have similar mechanical properties as infant human skulls — meaning they bend and break in similar ways — Haut and Fenton used the already deceased specimens in their research and found they were able to classify the different fracture patterns with a high degree of accuracy.

«Kune Kune piglets possess social learning skills and have an astonishingly good memory.»

The iron - deficient piglets also had structural deficiencies in their gray matter and white matter in several brain regions at four and eight weeks.

«One week of piglet brain growth is roughly equivalent to one month of human brain growth.

PEDv, similar to transmissible gastroenteritis (TGE), can cause devastating losses up to 100 % in infected piglets up to 3 weeks of age.

I can't believe that I'm sat here writing up my last Piglet pregnancy update as I will be having my elective caesarean section at 39 weeks.

Preparing for Calving and Sows Farrowing — Shows a farmer fetching in his cattle ready for calving in the spring, Then goes on to show how piglets...

And, those cute little pink potbellied piglets grow up to about 150 pounds, bigger than most big dogs.

Among other abuses, that investigation revealed breeding pigs crammed into gestation crates, piglets kicked like soccer balls and swung in circles by their hind legs, and mother pigs repeatedly beaten when they resisted being separated from their young.

Karp and colleagues tested prototypes of the heart implant by inserting them into growing piglets.

«In contrast to most previous studies, in which the animals learned from peers, the present study tested piglets after they observed their mother or their aunt in the process of solving a manipulative task,» explains Ludwig Huber, the director of this Messerli Foundation - financed study.