stockyards
Cattle holding areas
Stockyards are large enclosed areas where livestock—cattle, sheep, pigs—are temporarily held before being sold or slaughtered.
The term evokes the industrial meat trade of the 19th and early 20th centuries, when cities like Chicago and Kansas City had massive stockyards that processed animals arriving by rail: The Chicago stockyards employed thousands of workers.
Domesticated bovines kept commercially
- hogsPigs, or monopolizes
- sheepWoolly farm animal
- pensHandheld writing implements
- chutesInclined passage for conveying
herds · feedlots · slaughter · meatpacking · auction · loading · unloading · branding
Major Illinois metropolis
- OmahaLargest Nebraska city
- meatpackingProcessing livestock into food
- SinclairScottish-origin family name
- railroadsTrain transportation systems
cattle-drives · nineteenth-century · Swift · Armour · drovers · industrial · slaughterhouses · reform
Handheld writing implements
- chutesInclined passage for conveying
- fencingCombat with blunted blades
- corralsFenced livestock enclosures
- rampsInclined connecting surfaces
scales · alleys · gates · rails · platforms · runways · railyards · sidings
Competitive public sale
- biddingOffering prices or obeying
- buyersThose who obtain goods
- sellersThose who offer wares
- commissionPayment for services rendered
prices · wholesale · commodities · transactions · dealers · brokers · receipts · contracts
cattle
Domesticated bovines kept commercially
chutes · herds · feedlots · slaughter · meatpacking · auction · loading · unloading · branding · sorting
Chicago
Major Illinois metropolis
- OmahaLargest Nebraska city
- meatpackingProcessing livestock into food
- SinclairScottish-origin family name
railroads · cattle-drives · nineteenth-century · Swift · Armour · drovers · industrial · slaughterhouses · reform · decline
pens
Handheld writing implements
- chutesInclined passage for conveying
- fencingCombat with blunted blades
- corralsFenced livestock enclosures
ramps · scales · alleys · gates · rails · platforms · runways · railyards · sidings · walkways
auction
Competitive public sale
commission · prices · wholesale · commodities · transactions · dealers · brokers · receipts · contracts · grading
- storagedrive, silos, bins, tanks, storehouse
- cattle ranchingcattle, cattle drive, cattle drives, cattle auctions, cattle branding
- livestockcow, cows, cattle, bull, bulls
- Old Westcowboy, cowboys, cowgirl, sheriff, sheriffs
- ranchingcattle, ranch, rancher, ranchers, ranching
- TexasAlamo, Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio
stockyardspastures
Land for grazing animals
farms · ranches · open range · breeding farms · cattle ranches
stockyardswildlife preserves
Protected land for animals
nature reserves · animal sanctuaries · wilderness · protected habitats · conservation lands
stockyardsopen range
Unfenced public grazing land
free range · wilderness · natural habitat · open plains · backcountry