A paddock in which sheep or cattle are kept prior to shearing, branding, etc.
the animals were moved along remote stock routes, and kept for a while in holding paddocks
Example sentencesExamples
- A mass of red bodies funnels through the gate into a holding paddock.
- A big day for the orphan lambs - today they graduated from the holding paddock in the farmyard to the other paddock in the fields.
- We are at the entrance to a holding paddock where the last of Cobungra's cattle to be moved to higher leasehold country for the summer have spent the night.
- One of the holding paddocks has 32 km of fence line around it.
- The heifers were left without water in a holding paddock.
- These animals have been put in quarantine and we've moved them to a holding paddock.
- At shearing time he would muster the stock to the shed holding paddocks.
- A drafting gate sends them to a holding paddock to await collection by the stock transporter.
- The numbers of horses in the holding paddock builds up through the week.
- The charming addition is a holding paddock for horses next to the campground.