What is "brooder"

Usage examples of "brooder".

He came out facing the brooder run and broke into a heavy, unathletic trot.

For the last couple of days before the chicks are due to hatch, batches of fifty or so eggs are moved by the animal technicians, Steve or Dawn, into the brooders in the next room, shallow temperature-controlled boxes, each covered with a clear plastic dome, whose lights are timed to go on and off to simulate night and day outside the brooders.

I pick up a plastic box, sprinkle some sawdust on its floor to stop the chicks scrabbling, open the brooder dome, count out twenty-four and take them into the next room.

From a turret in the bow came a shaft of energy, touching each of the three brooders in succession, and each exploded with great eruption of black bricks.

They took germ cells from me and started them growing, then planted them in automated life support tanks, like the stock brooders, only fancier.

North lay more fields, then the dragon compounds, consisting of black-brick barracks, a brooder, an exercise field.

While the great battle rages I must sit by the brooder and watch eggs hatch!

Expecting a brooder to deliver lying down flat on her back was one of the more curious local customs, which she had no intention of following.

Newborns of her race triggered that inborn drive even more powerfully than human babies did, most strongly in the brooder but acting on anyone in close contact over time.

He was a brooder with a monumental formulation, his own vision of a balanced population.

In this case, his options were so severely limited that although he might be an unskilled brooder, he was able quickly to arrive at a plan of action.