hen yard

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hen yard - an enclosed yard for keeping poultry

chicken run, chicken yard, fowl run

yard - an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)

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In the space of two days he destroyed the fence on the hen yard, a fence on the pig pasture, shorted out the electric fence and threatened me with bodily harm for calling him on these transgressions.