Pen (enclosure)

With a pen (also called " Pförch " ) is a by portable fences demarcated, smaller piece of willow. Can herded for example, for the night sheep or goats in it, therefore penned. The single, originally made ​​of wattle fence element called hurdle, in the extended sense, the entire pen. Occasionally, paddocks are called pen.

In Iceland there are many communities Schafspferche, in which the animals are herded together in the fall and be distributed to the individual farms. For this, the built of wood or stone corrals are usually divided into different sized segments.