Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow.
To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding.
To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.
A brood is basically the kids in a family - the group of hatchlings brought up by parent birds.
A brood was indicated and tabulated when an adult hen was accompanied by one or more flightless ducklings of age-class I-III or by the presence of a hen actively engaged in distraction displays (i.e., a broody hen)
A group of baby birds. A broody hen is one who wants to sit on a nest and hatch and raise her babies. A brooder is a device designed to help look after newly hatched birds.
eggs, larvae and developing immature bees
A group of young birds attended by the hen (no parental care is provided by male prairie chickens).
a family of young animals or children
The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time and cared for by the same mother.
( Beetle Outbreak) - the young of an animal or insect, hatched and cared for at the same time.
individuals, usually offspring of the same parents, that hatch at approximately the same time
The group of young hatched from a clutch of eggs.
developing bees (eggs, larvae, pupae) that have not yet emerged from their cells.
the young of an animal cared for at one time
sit on (eggs); "Birds brood"; "The female covers the eggs"
a family, a group of birds or insects
Group of young. Some animals mate and have more than one brood in a year.
To protect nestlings by sitting on them; also, the whole complement of nestings is a called a "brood."
To sit on and keep eggs and the young birds warm.
Immature stages of bees not yet emerged from their cells; the stages are egg, larvae, pupae.
The young of a fish that are hatched at one time and cared for by the same mother.
A group of bees born at the same time.
collectively, all the offspring from one nesting of a bird The hen wood duck led her brood to the stream.
the birds that hatch from a single clutch of eggs.
A generation of young from a common female
a group of young produced at the same time; cf. cohort.
the number of offspring produced or hatched at one time
the immature members of the colony including eggs, larvae and pupae.
a group of young born or hatched at a single time.
clutch, brooding noun: the offspring of a single birth or set of eggs, or any group of young that is being cared for together by an adult. verb: to incubate eggs.
developing larvae, usually in social insects
the young baby geese hatched from a nest and the actions carried out by a female allowing the young to huddle under her wings next to her body for shelter and warmth.
To incubate and protect eggs until hatching.
Collective term for chickens.
bees not yet emerged from their cells: eggs, larvae, and pupae.
All of the bark beetle offspring produced by a single set of parents that hatch and mature at about the same time.
1. To care for a batch of chicks. 2. The chicks themselves.
To see a fowl with her brood, denotes that, if you are a woman, your cares will be varied and irksome. Many children will be in your care, and some of them will prove wayward and unruly. Brood, to others, denotes accumulation of wealth.
The young of honey bees are collectively called brood. In Langstroth hives each frame which is mainly brood (usually with some pollen and nectar or honey in the upper corners) is called a brood frame. Hives that are rated for pollination purposes are generally evaluated in terms of the number of frames of brood.