Sentences with phrase «piglets in»

They produce 6 - 12 piglets in each farrowing.

Mini-Movies • «Gunter Babysits» (3:47)-- Dressed in his bright gold tracksuit, «Uncle Gunter» comes over to babysit Rosita's 25 piglets in what is easily the funniest of the mini-movies!

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

Nevertheless, a Scottish company called PPL Therapeutics announced the birth of the world's first cloned piglets in a March press release.

A newly identified coronavirus that killed nearly 25,000 piglets in 2016 - 17 in China emerged from horseshoe bats near the origin of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS - CoV), which emerged in 2002 in the same bat species.

In August, the team reported another step toward that goal: The researchers had raised not just cell lines that were free of the retroviruses, but 15 live piglets in which problematic retroviruses had been eliminated (SN: 9/2/17, p. 15).

And so, off I go to the pig farm to squeeze two Tamworth piglets in between the vintage treasures loaded into my van.

The video, shot in April 2012, was taken at Wyoming Premium Farms, a pig factory farm in Wheatland, Wyo., owned by Itoham America, Inc., and shows workers kicking living piglets like soccer balls, swinging sick piglets in circles by their hind legs, striking mother pigs with their fists and repeatedly and forcefully kicking them as they resisted leaving their young.

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

Choose from Frog in Pond, Hedgehog in Leaf Pile, Bunny in Cabbage, Piglet in the Dirt, and Ladybug in Flower.

Not exact matches

Gluttony Pants, featuring an expanding waistline in three size settings (piglet, sow, boar).

He tried to get his dog to attack and bloody the pet piglets being raised in the house across the street.

Then, somehow you're in a pen and hundreds of little piglets are sucking at your teats.

Then, somehow you're in a pen and hundreds of little Mohammad's piglets are sucking at your teats.

Also, God loves it when his little piglets suffer in agony yet still worship him, he gets a thrill out of it, and even demands it.

(Or all by itself, you little piglet;) In any case, it made me * almost * cured.

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

This product may also be used as protein source in organic feed stuff for piglets.

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.

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.

The investigator also found pigs with untreated abscesses and severe rectal and uterine prolapses, mummified piglet corpses, and baby piglets who had fallen through floor slats to either hang to death or drown in manure pits.

That was a rough go in the Piglet.

But instead of reassessing their practices, the industry is vehemently defending the system — a system that confines 12 million egg laying hens in battery cages; forces thousands of mother pigs to give birth and live for weeks on end in crates barely bigger than their bodies; allows piglets to have their teeth cut and tails cut off without pain relief; and subjects «meat» chickens to such rapid growth that their bodies can barely sustain them.

By emailing their head office, you can also encourage both Coles -LRB--RRB- and Woolworths to continue to take steps to eliminate other cruel practices — such as confining mother pigs in «farrowing crates» after their piglets are born, and surgical mutilations on young piglets and chicks without pain relief.

Even when this occurs, mother pigs will (in addition) be subjected to «farrowing crates» - an even smaller crate used to cage pigs prior to giving birth and then where she stays until her piglets are weaned.

Just like in a «sow stall», in a farrowing crate a sow can only stand or lie down and can not even turn around - she has restricted interaction with their piglets, through the bars of the cage around her.

The mothers used for breeding (sows) are trapped in a cycle of suffering to give birth to as many piglets as possible until her body can no longer physically cope and she is sent to slaughter too - in factory farms this is usually between 2 and 3 years of age.

TIP finished the season very strong and Adrian helped AD Carry Apollo finish the season third in kills behind DoubleLift and Piglet.

While balancing his responsibilities in the classroom with training in the wrestling room, Stinson meticulously raises five huge pigs — the largest a 325 - pound gilt (female without piglets).

The first of these moves saw Gwang - jin «Piglet» Chae move from the AD Carry position he has played since his professional debut on Korea's championship SK Telecom T1 S roster back in 2013, over the mid lane position in order to replace Greyson «Goldenglue» Gilmer, who had been under performing in the first 5 weeks of the split.

And knowing that my little piglets and my hubby would be right there in the front row cheering me on would make my song that much sweeter.

Echo recently posted... A Day In The Life of a Child and Piglet Rearing Momma!

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 most recent study report described in these same regions decreased tissue levels of 5 - HT and tryptophan hydroxylase, the synthesizing enzyme for serotonin, and no evidence of excessive serotonin degradation as assessed by levels of 5 - hydroxyindoleacetic acid (the main metabolite of serotonin) or ratios of 5 - hydroxyindoleacetic acid to serotonin.30 A recent article described a significant association between a decrease in medullary 5 - HT1A receptor immunoreactivity and specific SIDS risk factors, including tobacco smoking.40 These data confirm results from earlier studies in humans39, 41 and are also consistent with studies in piglets that revealed that postnatal exposure to nicotine decreases medullary 5 - HT1A receptor immunoreactivity.42 Animal studies have revealed that serotonergic neurons located in the medullary raphe and adjacent paragigantocellularis lateralis play important roles in many autonomic functions including the control of respiration, blood pressure, heart rate, thermoregulation, sleep and arousal, and upper airway patency.

Changes in serotoninergic receptors 1A and 2A in the piglet brainstem after intermittent hypercapnic hypoxia (IHH) and nicotine

Newborn piglets are useful animals in which to evaluate neonatal n − 6 and n − 3 fatty acid requirements because lipid metabolism and the composition of lipids in the brain and milk of pigs are similar to those of humans (57).

Piglets fed from birth with formula providing 0.4 % of energy as 18:3 n − 3 (with percentages of total fatty acids of 29 % 18:2 n − 6 and 0.8 % 18:3 n − 3) had significantly lower 22:6 n − 3 concentrations in the brain, brain synaptic terminal membranes, retina, liver, and blood lipids than did piglets fed sow milk (54 &mdasPiglets fed from birth with formula providing 0.4 % of energy as 18:3 n − 3 (with percentages of total fatty acids of 29 % 18:2 n − 6 and 0.8 % 18:3 n − 3) had significantly lower 22:6 n − 3 concentrations in the brain, brain synaptic terminal membranes, retina, liver, and blood lipids than did piglets fed sow milk (54 &mdaspiglets fed sow milk (54 — 56).

Twelve transgenic piglets endowed with a mouse UCP1 gene were better able to maintain their body temperature than their unmodified counterparts when they were exposed to cold for a 4 - hour period, the authors report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The threat of hypothermia forces cold - climate farms to invest in heat lamps and other accommodations for their shivering piglets.

In a recent study from the Piglet Nutrition and Cognition Lab at the University of Illinois, 3 - and 4 - week - old piglets were given dog toys to play with.

Removing the viruses — called porcine endogenous retroviruses, or PERVs — creates piglets that can't pass the viruses on to transplant recipients, geneticist Luhan Yang and colleagues report online August 10 in Science.

In piglets, for instance, a clinical or manifest zinc deficiency can — under feeding conditions applied in practice — only be achieved after about ten days, explains the TUM scientisIn piglets, for instance, a clinical or manifest zinc deficiency can — under feeding conditions applied in practice — only be achieved after about ten days, explains the TUM scientisin practice — only be achieved after about ten days, explains the TUM scientist.

In a study testing novel object recognition and location, piglets interacted with these objects.

The researchers printed tracheae from biocompatible plastic and tested them in piglets.

And another litter of eight piglets cloned from one of the pigs that perished proved healthier and nearly as omega - 3 rich, the researchers revealed in the paper presenting their findings, published online yesterday in Nature Biotechnology.

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.

So a research team led by scientists at Children's National Health System in Washington, D.C., delivered subpar levels of oxygen to newborn piglets, whose course of brain development and whose highly evolved brain structure mirrors in many respects those of humans.

Arnold Kriegstein, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco, also argues that though the scientists found inhibitory interneurons strikingly depleted in the brains of the oxygen - deprived piglets, this alone can not account for the dramatic shrinking of the animals» overall brain size and the diminished number of cortical folds «The interneurons are part of the story but not the entire story of how the brain is affected by this kind of [lack of oxygen].»

During normal brain development in the first weeks of life, precursor cells in the SVZ in the piglets give birth to neurons that migrate primarily to the prefrontal cortex, the team reports today in Science Translational Medicine.

Layers of cells in the brain «depot» where neurons are often born in newborn mammals — in this case, a piglet.