brooder
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8.5
- noun
- /ˈbruːdər/
- Specialized
:
incubadora
- Farmers often rely on a brooder to keep newly hatched chicks comfortable during their first weeks of life.
- brooder box
- chicks in a brooder
- heat from the brooder
Examples
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During the cold nights, we placed the premature infants in a brooder to ensure they stayed warm and healthy.
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The chicks huddled together in the brooder, enjoying the warmth provided by the heat lamps.
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After we moved the girls into their new brooder, Ada's personality radically shifted.
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With turkeys, you have the hatchery, brooder, grow-out, and finally, transport and marketing stages.
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The rabbit brooder below is a lot like some of the chicken tractors I've seen, but for adorable bunnies.
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We're leaving the chicks in the brooder. Duck evidently isn't a very good chicken mama, leaving the chicks all over the barnyard.
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My brooder house is full of little peeps whose antics cause laughter to rise. Such curiosities and conundrums entertain and fulfill.
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They would not let the Rhode Island Reds out of the brooder house to forage, even in the 100-degree heat. If any Rhode Island Red tried to come outside, they would have 20 roosters peck and chase them until they went inside.
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Synonyms
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5.2
An enclosed machine that keeps eggs or premature babies at a steady warm temperature
Compounds
- Specialized
Severe lung disease in young chickens and turkeys that often causes sudden death
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Brooder comes from the verb brood, which meant 'to sit on eggs' and keep them warm, so a brooder is a warm box or lamp used to keep chicks or very small babies warm.