Pen (livestock farm)

A pen was a livestock farm on the Island of Jamaica.

Pen-keeping included the breeding of cattle, horses, mules, sheep and dairy farming.

[1] Gardner (1873), referring to the 1750s, stated: "The life of a tolerably successful pen-keeper was at this period, as it is now, the most enviable to be found in the colony.

Cattle thrive well, and few servants are required when once a pen is well established.

"[2] Batchelors Hall Pen was owned by Chaloner Arcedekne; it supplied Golden Grove Plantation, owned by the prominent Simon Taylor.