Femelles Grands Parentales / Mâles Grands Parentaux
English translation: granddams / grandsires
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|  Selected response from: Charles Davis Spain Local time: 14:41 | ||||||
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| 4 +1 | granddams / grandsires |
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| 5 | Females GPD (grand parental doe) /Males GPC (grand parental coney) |
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| 4 -1 | Large Doe Parent / Large Buck Parent |
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peer agreement (net): +1granddams / grandsires Explanation: Note that it says "femelles grands parentales", not "grandes parentales". This reflects the fact that "grand" doesn't mean big here. This is talking about grandparents. Of course, since rabbits breed like... well, rabbits, they can become grandparents in very short order. I first twigged to this through this page, which advertises: "Femelle grand-parentale, Mâle grand parental" http://www.granjajordan.com/fr.html And in the English version: "Maternal grandmother rabbit, Grandfather" http://www.granjajordan.com/en.html Anyway, I'm sure this is the meaning. See here, on p. 139, where you'll see a diagram of rabbit generations, with the generations going down from "Arrière-grands-parentaux (AGP)" to "Grands-parentaux (GP)" to "Parentaux (P)". http://www.fao.org/docrep/014/t1690f/t1690f.pdf In English a rabbit grandfather is called a grandsire, and a grandmother is called a granddam. "Male" and "female" are redundant, since the English terms are gendered. "Sire: Father of a rabbit (Grandsire, Great-Grandsire, etc). Dam: Mother of a rabbit (Granddam, Great-Granddam, etc)." http://www.edelweissranch.com/rabbit-lingo-demystified.html -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2 hrs (2016-10-11 16:50:14 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- (Grand)dam and (grand)sire, by the way, are not just used in showing. They are standard in commercial rabbit production for meat: https://books.google.es/books?id=ZY-8F9MwBWsC&pg=PA198&lpg=P... "Commercial livestock producers often use sire and dam (father & mother) breeds of recognized merit to produce crossbred offspring for market. The crossbreeds give more efficient performance and greater profits. In Europe, the sophisticated use of commercial sire and dam breeds to produce crossbred fryer rabbits (young meat animals) is widely practiced." http://www.justrabbits.com/altex-rabbit.html#gs.D2r7JkA -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2 hrs (2016-10-11 16:54:01 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- By the way, French breed names tend to use "géant" rather than "grand" for "large". But that's irrelevant anyway; there is absolutely nothing to connect these French terms to breeds or genetics. |
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