What is "farmyards"

Usage examples of "farmyards".

When he crowed, the cocks in all the neighboring farmyards replied to him, as if they were uttering challenges from farm to farm.

Authentic studies of whitewashed cortijos with peasants sitting outside on straw chairs, still lifes of pewter plates piled high with Serrano ham and Andalucian figs, farmyards full of chickens, the plains of old Castile as seen from Toledo.