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• crate: The opening scene is of a sow held captive in a farrowing crate.

• nest: The space to allow a sow to turn around in a farrowing nest requires nearly the length of the sow, almost two meters.

• sow: There was something June had wanted, was it for the farrowing sow?

• pen: One empty farrowing pen had sawdust in it; however sows with piglets housed in such pens were not cleaned out.

• house: There is a fixed farrowing house, the all-weather nature of which allows the production of litters even in winter.

• system: To achieve this many farms have adopted a batch farrowing system.