avós

English translation: grandparents

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Portuguese term or phrase:avós
English translation:grandparents
Entered by: Claudio Mazotti

01:28 Sep 14, 2011
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Agriculture
Portuguese term or phrase: avós
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?
Zornitsa Antonova
Brazil
Local time: 16:30
grandparents
Explanation:
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?...
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Claudio Mazotti
Brazil
Grading comment
Thanks a lot!
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Summary of answers provided
5 +1grandparents
Claudio Mazotti
4 +2grandparent stock
Evans (X)
4 +1grandparent hens
Martin Riordan


  

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42 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
grandparents


Explanation:
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?...

Claudio Mazotti
Brazil
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 63
Grading comment
Thanks a lot!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Muriel Vasconcellos
2 hrs
  -> tks a lot!
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43 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
grandparent hens


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

Example sentence(s):
  • A total of 72 White Leghorn grandparent hens was examined by ELISA.

    Reference: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1661176
    Reference: http://stragw43oc.pib.ir/1506759/buy+ghd+hair+Imported+grand...
Martin Riordan
Brazil
Local time: 16:30
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 19

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Christina Paiva
1 hr
  -> Obrigado, Christina!
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
grandparent stock


Explanation:
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


Evans (X)
Local time: 20:30
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 7

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
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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