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French: démarrer

English translation: started poults







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French term or phrase:dindonneaux démarrés
English translation:started poults
Entered by:Alexandra Cox
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10:11am Jul 11, 2007Login or register (free) for more options.
French to English translations [PRO]
Livestock / Animal Husbandry
French term or phrase: démarrer
The context being: "Nous pouvons fournier des oeufs à couver et des dindonneaux démarrés".

The text is about a site which produces SPF animals for laboratories. Thank you!
Alexandra Cox
Germany
Clarification request(s) and response
Ségolène Neilson: 11:30am Jul 11, 2007: bizarre cette expression. Je pense qu'il s'agit de dindonneaux déjà engraissés dès la naissance

start
Explanation:
They're actually called "started chicks" or in this case "started poults" in English as well.
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Cetacea
Switzerland
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5 +1start
Cetacea
4already 15 days oldSégolène Neilson


  


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déjà démarrés already 15 days old

Explanation:
ils ont en effet 15jrs voire 3 semaines

Ségolène Neilson
United Kingdom
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Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
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Asker: quelle jolie image! :-) Merci!


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral Cetacea: Other sources speak of four weeks, so age can't really be used as a defining criterion for this term.
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  -> MERCI C'est assez Cetacea
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start

Explanation:
They're actually called "started chicks" or in this case "started poults" in English as well.


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Cetacea
Switzerland
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Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree joobie: I agree with started chicks or poults in fact "les demarrés are sold between 4 to 8 weeks of age
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