What is "brooders"

Usage examples of "brooders".

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.

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.