Yarding
![During the daytime, the doors are left open for these chickens to choose whether to be in the yard or coop. This small poultry farm is in Hainan, China.](/Images/godic/202502/21/Free_range_chickens_in_Hainan,_China_-_023401.jpg")
In poultry keeping, yarding is the practice of providing the poultry with a fenced yard in addition to a poultry house. Movable yarding is a form of managed intensive grazing.
Yarding is often confused with free range. The distinction is that free-range poultry are either totally unfenced, or the fence is so distant that it has little influence on their freedom of movement.