Glossary entry

Portuguese term or phrase:

avós

English translation:

grandparents

Added to glossary by Claudio Mazotti
Sep 14, 2011 01:28
12 yrs ago
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Portuguese term

avós

Portuguese to English Other Agriculture
incubadora de frango avós

É de uma lista de empresas para seguradora. Alguem pode me dizer como coloco frangos "avós" da melhor maneira em inglês, por favor?
Proposed translations (English)
5 +1 grandparents
4 +2 grandparent stock
4 +1 grandparent hens
Change log

Sep 14, 2011 01:29: Fernanda Rocha changed "Term asked" from "avós (neste caso)" to "avós"

Sep 19, 2011 11:33: Claudio Mazotti changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/811651">Zornitsa Antonova's</a> old entry - "avós"" to ""grandparents""

Proposed translations

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42 mins
Selected

grandparents

Ross Poultry Breeders undertakes pedigree selection, produces grandparents from pedigree stock and ultimately produces day old grandparents and parents ...
www.astralfoods.com/bussiness_units_ross.htm

hubpages.com › ... › Real Estate Investment
... called sons of the West along the 23 km including 12 km asphalt and the rest is dirt Rizpah expected soon by the National Company for grandparents poultry ...
www.hubpages.com › ... › Real Estate Investment

www.cobb-vantress.com/distributors/ViewDistributor.aspx?...
Riverland Poultry Limited, located near New Zealand"s capital, Auckland, takes great grandparent stock from Cobb UK, and sells parents into New Zealand ...
www.cobb-vantress.com/distributors/ViewDistributor.aspx?...
Peer comment(s):

agree Muriel Vasconcellos
2 hrs
tks a lot!
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks a lot!"
+1
43 mins

grandparent hens

Fazem parte da hierarquia de produção de frangos. Bisavós, avós, mães, são todas necessárias para colocar o frango na mesa!
Example sentence:

A total of 72 White Leghorn grandparent hens was examined by ELISA.

Peer comment(s):

agree Christina Paiva
1 hr
Obrigado, Christina!
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+2
6 hrs

grandparent stock

This is the term used in the industry. (I translated for a UK poultry farm for many years).

An example:

http://www.britishchicken.com/Parent Farm.htm
Peer comment(s):

agree Daniel Tavares : I will vote for you, due to your previous experience in the field.
7 hrs
Thanks, Daniel. This particular area of expertise doesn't get tapped very often!
agree T o b i a s : Grandparent stock also used by astralfoods and cobb-vantress examples, posted earlier
11 hrs
Thanks, Tobias. It is the correct term, although the asker thinks otherwise.
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