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
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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.