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UK
/bɹˈuːdɐ/
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NOUN
- apparatus consisting of a box designed to maintain a constant temperature by the use of a thermostat; used for chicks or premature infants
How To Use brooder In A Sentence
- Merely 17 fry from a first time brooder is not too bad a result.
- Now, just look at that," I said as I opened the top of the long box that is called a brooder and is supposed to supplement the functions of the metal incubator mother in the destiny of chicken young. The Golden Bird
- All birds were hatched in incubators and kept in brooders until approximately 7 weeks of age, at which time they were moved to 5 x 7 x 4 m outdoor flight pens.
- Operating a cash-poor shamus practice in Edinburgh, occasionally bringing along his precocious daughter from a broken marriage, Brodie is clearly more of a doer than a brooder. Matt's Guide to Weekend TV: Walking Dead, Case Histories and More!
- Each teen has a stock personality: the leader, the fat guy, the brooder.
- The second half is loaded with these 3 A.M. smoking cigarettes-on-your-balcony brooders, and you'd think it'd get bogged down worse than a fat-farm delivery bus in a flash flood on a dirt road, but it just gets… y'know, moody.
- Almost like a hospital with a maternity ward for expectant mothers, the brooder room also houses sick and injured birds and has a recovery room.
- He led his female into a cave where they spawned nose to tail in typical mouthbrooder fashion.
- A new brooder room for incubating eggs and hand-rearing baby birds is to be formally opened at the Johannesburg Zoo during the Sasol Bird Fair on 3 and 4 September.
- Heaters, brooders, feed and water delivery systems, ventilation fans all continue to regulate environment.