fowlyard

And though the duckling did not understand the meaning of the words, he felt he was being blamed, and became more uncomfortable still when the old Spanish duck who ruled the fowlyard struck in:

The Orange Fairy Book 2003

At last the day came, and Bessie, instead of going out to the fowlyard as usual, kept in the house all the morning.

Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper and Other Stories Anonymous

One was a Possum, with one of those sharp, snooting, snouting sort of faces, and the other was a bulbous, boozy-looking Wombat in an old long-tailed coat, and a hat that marked him down as a man you couldn't trust in the fowlyard.

The Magic Pudding Norman Lindsay 1924

The best of them considered themselves discharged -- if not of the debt, at least of the obligation of gratitude -- by the present of a hare they had killed, or a basket of eggs from their fowlyard, which they would come and offer to the banker on the day of the great fair of the year.

Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House Romain Rolland 1905

So Rooster Hall to his fowlyard went, and quickly back he came,

Rio Grande's Last Race & Other Verses 1902

"Once upon a time -- it was the village fair week, when, as you know, every one eats and drinks as much as he possibly can, and consequently a great many animals are killed, -- the farmer's cook came into the fowlyard, and after carefully looking over all the chickens, remarked that seven of them would be twisting merrily on the spit next morning.

Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863