Custom Design

Site Assessment & Computer Aided Design Service

Design and construction of stockyards is an important issue. Well constructed stockyards will last a lifetime.

Well designed stockyards will make your livestock operation more profitable;

• Less labour is required to efficiently handle stock
• Good yards encourage timely husbandry (that difficult job does not get put off)
• Good yards make more intensive husbandry viable (it may pay to regularly weigh stock to allow management and targeting for specific markets)
• Less stress and bruising on stock.

So it is important to get your yards right.

ProWay site assessment and design service can help. ProWay design, manufacture and construct over 200 sets of stockyards each year. Our designers have experienced the same issues you must work through. One of ProWay’s experienced stockyard designers can travel to your site, measure and assess the site and discuss your requirements.

The designers:

• Measure up existing features to be incorporated into the design such as woolsheds, tress, existing fencelines, water troughs, sprinklers, dips etc
• Assess the slop of the site.
• Discuss stock movement to and from the yard.
• Discuss vehicle access and loading.
• Discuss your stockhandling requirements and your operation.
• Draw up a stockyard design for you based on the above information and our experience.

Areas we cover in your custom design are:

• Using natural stockflow principles to make stockhandling stress free for the operator and animal.
• Safety issues for operator.
• Weighing options, positioning of scales, crate, weighbox or hanging crush-drafting after scales.
• Which scales best suit your operation?
• EID requirements.
• Loading options.
• Positioning of yards to maximise use of slope.
• Roofing over yards incorporating existing or planning new shedding positioning of posts.
• Classing or stock classing boxes.
• Handling race length.
• Calf marking.
• Which crush best suits your operation?
• Areas for contractors, scanning, dipping, lamb marking etc
• Future expansion.

We draw up your new yards on our computer showing yard dimensions and holding capabilities, race lengths and how they incorporate existing features.

We can calculate concrete quantities and provide advice on drainage and preparing the site for your new yards. We print out the yard design for you and price up the options.