cattle pens
Stockyard holding areas
Cattle pens are enclosures for confining cattle, typically made of wooden rails or metal fencing.
They're used for sorting, holding, or loading livestock: The ranchers drove the herd into the cattle pens for branding.
The term evokes the practical infrastructure of ranching and stockyards.
- corralFenced livestock enclosure
- stockyardLivestock enclosure for trade
- feedlotLivestock fattening enclosure
- chuteInclined passage for descent
- ranchLivestock-raising estate
livestock · branding · branding iron · roundup · herd · cow path · fencing · gates · dust · manure · hooves · feed trough · bellowing · auction · loading · loading dock · squeeze · headgate
- cattle driveChisholm Trail, chuck wagon, cowboy, drover, herd
- cattle fairslivestock auctions, show rings, heifers, steers, auctioneers
- Cattle TownsDodge City, Abilene, Wichita, Caldwell, Newton
- feedlotscorrals, feeders, steers, heifers, feed mill
confinement vs. freedom
cattle pensopen range
Unfenced public grazing land
free range · rangeland · grazing land · grasslands · prairie
domesticated vs. wild habitat
cattle penswilderness
Uncultivated, uninhabited natural region
natural habitat · the wild · wildlife reserve · game preserve · bush