An enclosure into which shorn or dipped sheep are released to be counted.
he watched the shorn lamb run into the counting-out pen
Example sentencesExamples
The picker-up's functions are to remove all locks from the shearing board immediately as each sheep is shorn and to sweep the board clean after each sheep has passed to a counting-out pen.
An unshorn sheep had wandered across the board and out through the porthole into his counting-out pen.
Each man passes the sheep shorn by him into his own counting-out pen.
I find I can keep up with three shearers satisfactorily if I have another person in the counting-out pen.
He has to make sure that no unbranded animal is in the counting-out pen.