Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Portuguese term or phrase:
o peso vivo dos animais
English translation:
animal liveweight
Portuguese term
United Kingdom
Native English speaker living in Brazil
Native in: English
Works in: Portuguese to English, English to Portuguese
o peso vivo dos animais
"...the live weight of the animal"?
The full context follows:-
"A ingestão de matéria seca do concentrado foi estimado conforme o peso vivo dos animais (NRC, 2001)."
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Marlene Curtis
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| 5 | the animal's weight |
Douglas Bissell
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| 4 +1 | the live weight of the animal |
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Dec 8, 2010 11:30: Marlene Curtis Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
United States
Marlene Curtis
Native in: Portuguese 
, English
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English
animal liveweight
Cow liveweight is an important trait for profitable conversion of pasture to profit. Animal liveweight affects dairy farm profitability through : ...
www.aeu.org.nz/page.cfm?id=26
Portugal
Business Language Solutions Pt>Eng
Native in: English
Works in: Portuguese to English, English to Portuguese
the animal's weight
the live weight of the animal
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The assignment percentage was 10% (10 kg DM per every 100 kg live weight), with regards to the quantity of forage needed daily by an animal, as well as the forage that is lost due to trampling and a reserve for the plant to recover after grazing.
http://payfo.ihatuey.cu/Revista/v31n2/pdf/pyf06208.pdf
"Animals for the testing were chosen according to their origin, similar age and live weight on the day of slaughtering. "
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q="for the testing were c...
... the payment also should be done depending on the percentage of lean meat in the carcass and not depending on the live weight of the animal.
Depending on the live weight of the animal and the number of hours worked, the extra daily net energy expended for ploughing varied between 0.10 and 0.8 times the energy cost for maintenance.
http://www.usab-tm.ro/fileadmin/fzb/Simp%202010/VOL%202/MANAGEMENT/Heber%201.pdf
http://www.ilri.org/InfoServ/Webpub/fulldocs/Oxenfeed/Oxenfeed.pdf
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Marlene Curtis
: Is the weight alive?
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Rachel Fell
: I know it as two words - http://www.defra.gov.uk/foodfarm/policy/animalhealth/eig/ind... http://www.msumner.co.uk/tcuk-forum/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&...
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Thanks; Ref: OED "live (adj.) {live weight}, the weight of an animal before it is slaughtered and prepared as a carcase"
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