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brooder
stage two of the usual bird rearing sequence. After hatching the baby birds are put into a brooder house, usually with a heat source attached, for rearing. Also used as a management strategy for baby pigs which are weaned early, at 3 weeks.
brooder pneumonia
respiratory tract infection of young birds with the fungus Aspergillus fumigatus. Called also aspergillosis.
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The band's namesake, Chris Daughtry, is the grimacing, chrome-dome crooner with the Wooly Willy-like beard who came to prominence as an "American Idol" Season 5 fourth-place finisher (aka third-place loser), when he sang a revamped version of Johnny Cash's "I Walk the Line" (which he ripped off from another cue-ball brooder, Ed Kowalski of Live).
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