An enclosure in a stockyard into which mustered animals are driven before being sorted.
he drove the herd from the receiving yard into a series of smaller yards
Example sentencesExamples
- The receiving yard should be long and narrow so that one man can force cattle into the holding yards.
- In a large number of cases, the main gate and the forcing pens are on opposite sides of the receiving yard.
- They rushed, forced open the gates of the receiving yard and galloped, panic-stricken, down and through the barbed wire 'wing'.
- Most properties have a large receiving yard or lane which is virtually a small paddock.
- A receiving yard 15yds by 15yds will hold 500 sheep.