Livestock Psychology

The foundation of any stockyard design is the understanding of animal psychology.

Sheep and cattle have recognised traits of behaviour that Atlex Stockyards utilise, in an advanced form, to make handling less stressful on the stock and you when handling the stock.

The first major change to stockyard design using stock psychology was the development of bugle sheepyards around the 1950's but not taken up in any great quantity until the 1970's.

For the last 25 years the Atlex Design team have been using animal psychology as the underlying basis for all designs.

With thousands of yards being designed and constructed we have "real world" experience in knowing what works, what doesn't and more importantly why.

More recenlty Atlex have formed a close working relationship with Temple Grandin (Phd) and now combine the Temple Grandin Design Principals into all our yard designs.

All designs are are regularly peer reviewed between Temple Grandin and Ian Crafter.