brooder pneumonia

7.3

Severe lung disease in young chickens and turkeys that often causes sudden death

noun
/ˈbruːdər nuˈmoʊniə/

Specialized

: neumonía de los pollitos

The veterinarian diagnosed the sudden deaths as brooder pneumonia among the young chicks.

Examples

Effective ventilation and hygiene are crucial to preventing outbreaks of brooder pneumonia in poultry farms.
Several turkey poults developed respiratory distress and were found to have brooder pneumonia.
The farm suffered from an outbreak of brooder pneumonia.
Many young chicks died from brooder pneumonia last year.
Effective ventilation and hygiene are crucial to preventing outbreaks of brooder pneumonia in poultry farms.
Several turkey poults developed respiratory distress and were found to have brooder pneumonia.
The veterinarian diagnosed the sudden deaths as brooder pneumonia among the young chicks.

Surface Forms

brooder pneumonia singular

brooder pneumonias plural

Morphology

brooder + pneumonia

This is a straightforward modifier–noun compound: 'brooder' specifies the environment/age group (heated enclosure for chicks) and 'pneumonia' is a lung infection, so the sense 'pneumonia occurring in brooded young poultry' is directly inferable from the parts. Although the term is domain-specific, the semantic composition follows common patterns, so a learner who knows both constituents would understand the meaning.

Etymology

Brooder pneumonia comes from young birds kept in a brooder, a warm box for chicks, getting a bad lung infection called pneumonia. Because the disease spreads fast in warm, crowded brooders and often kills the birds quickly, the name came to mean 'a severe, rapidly fatal pneumonia in young chickens and turkeys'.