(1) Some people are lucky enough to have someone to look after them,” Leigh broods.
(2) Under resting conditions thoracic skin temperature (Tths) and metabolic heat production (M) were significantly higher in broody than in non-broody hens, indicating a permanently increased conductance of the brood patch.
(3) As well as George Dyer, there was the murderer Perry Smith in the Truman Capote story Infamous, the hot-headed mobster child-killer in Road To Perdition, the brooding Ted Hughes in Gwyneth Paltrow’s Sylvia biopic and a belligerent Mossad assassin in Steven Spielberg’s Munich.
(4) Testosterone levels dropped at the onset of incubation and remained low through the brooding period.
(5) Starting small, with oddly tweaked vocal samples and ominous-sounding piano, the first half is brilliantly brooding, to the point where the first chorus of “I love these streets but they weren’t meant for me to walk” arrives at the 45-second mark just as all the music drops away completely.
(6) The other half was brooded on either new or reused litter without paper.
(7) These changes suggest that all the food was not being digested by the adult birds during brooding but was almost exclusively regurgitated to feed the squabs.
(8) The strains differ in their effects on the sex ratio and size of another female's brood in the same host.
(9) From the beginning, her father was determined that his brood – Hodge is one of five – be fully integrated.
(10) The X-ray component of dominant lethality in brood 1, representing mostly mature spermatozoa, was negative, indicating a lower than expected lethality induced by X-irradiation in the presence of P element mobility.
(11) The effects of tritoqualine and alpha-hydrazinohistidine injected into eggs on the 16th, 17th or 18th day of chick embryo age on hatching time, histamine level and diamine oxidase (DAO) activity in brood's tissues were also examined.
(12) T levels increased slightly toward the end of the brooding phase.
(13) The three brood Ceriodaphnia dubia test was carried out three nonconsecutive times, each period being separated by the previous one by three weeks.
(14) Brooding neonates at 26.7 C for 3 days in Trials 3 and 4 resulted in consistently lower body weights and gain and higher serum corticosterone, thyroxine, total protein, albumin, and globulin.
(15) We took a couple of days to brood, and then I spoke to Justin and said I thought I should give in, if I didn't have to have anything to do with the winner.
(16) A bookish teenager regarded as the smartest of the Murdoch brood, James endured an awkward adolescence in the public eye and was famously photographed asleep on a sofa at a press conference while working as a 15-year-old intern at his father's old paper, the Sydney Mirror, a picture the rival Sydney Morning Herald gleefully ran on its front page the next day.
(17) We have examined the effects of relaxing each of these assumptions and obtained the following results: (1) When broods mature asynchronously the optimum sex ratio is considerably more female biased than the Hamiltonian prediction.
(18) Q has upped his gadget game Facebook Twitter Pinterest The brooding and sombre Skyfall scored a few points for post-modern playfulness via its introductory scene for the new Q, in which Ben Whishaw might as well have offered Bond a couple of Netflix vouchers and a year’s subscription to Cosmopolitan for all the wow factor his proffered “gadgets” achieved.
(19) One-d-old chicks placed in corners of a 29 x 14 m brooding area dispersed evenly over the whole area in a period of 48 h. 3.
(20) In an attempt to identify a minimum prophylactic dose of BCG which would not induce granulomas, cotton rats were treated intraperitoneally with various doses of BCG (10(1) to 10(7) colony-forming units [CFU]) and then inoculated intraperitoneally with one brood capsule of the parasite.
Brooder
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The pullets were housed in battery brooder pens with raised wire floors.
(2) In the brooder study, neither total mortality nor mortality from SDS was significantly affected by cereal type.
(3) One-half of the birds from each treatment were immediately given access to feed and water in pens of brooder batteries; the remainder were held 3 days in transportation boxes before placement in other pens of the same batteries.
(4) The control of ectoparasites, before the use of modern insecticides, became vastly simplified as mechanical incubators and brooders replaced the hen, and as the birds were provided with better housing.
(5) An experiment with a factorial arrangement of treatments using four levels of dietary lactate (0, 2.5, 5.0, 7.5% calcium lactate) and four levels of dietary glucose (0, 15, 30, and 45% cerelose) was conducted to determine the effect of these compounds on the incidence of sudden death syndrome (SDS) in 1,280 male broiler chickens reared in battery brooder cages to 4 wk of age.
(6) Half the chicks in each experiment was brooded Days 1 to 7 on brooding paper, which covered the litter within a brooder ring.
(7) In the second experiment, birds were reared either in battery brooders and grow-out cages or floor pens from Day 1 to 63.
(8) A high incidence of a dermatitis on the upper part of the beak was also observed in poults maintained in battery brooders but not in floor pens.
(9) In Experiment 1, birds were maintained in battery brooders for 21 days then housed in floor pens from Day 22 to 70.
(10) Three experiments using day-old chicks were conducted in battery brooders to further study the rye-vitamin D antagonism.
(11) Six experiments were conducted with male broiler chicks kept in battery brooders to investigate the effects of feeding diets high in copper on the integrity of the gizzard lining.
(12) The chicks were naturally infected with MAS, whereas hatchmates fed the same diets but in a separate facility (battery brooder) did not exhibit signs of MAS and, therefore, were considered controls.
(13) In the first two experiments, the broilers were raised in floor pens to 6 wk of age, and in the third experiment they were raised in battery-brooder cages to 4 wk of age.
(14) The birds were kept in separate wire-floored brooders and growout batteries, fed unmedicated broiler-starter rations ad libitum, and killed 7 days postchallenge.
(15) Four hundred and eighty Hubbard x Hubbard broilers were randomly placed in battery brooders, with 10 birds per pen.
(16) Corn-soybean meal diets calculated to contain 1.5% calcium and either .35, .55, .75, .95, or 1.15% available phosphorus were fed to battery brooder reared poults for 3 weeks.
(17) Day-old White Mountain cockerels were reared in electrically-heated battery brooders and given access to either a 23% protein control ration (no choice) or two diets containing 10% or 60% protein with or without supplemental amino acids.
(18) The drop in infected cells was restored to control values if chicks were returned to brooder temperatures.
(19) The poults were housed in battery brooders with wire screen floors in four experiments" and in floor pens with litter in one experiment.
(20) Day-old Cobb x Cobb broiler chicks were housed in battery brooders for 21-day feeding periods during two experiments.