Sheep Handling: Fix Yard Flow on UK Farms

Livestock Handling & Yard Design, Sheep Handling & Yard DesignBy alex.wivell8@googlemail.comApril 7, 2026Leave a comment

If your sheep handling day always seems to go wrong in the same spot, it’s probably not the sheep. It’s the sheep yard design. One hesitant ewe at the race entrance can turn a straightforward job into stop-start traffic: backing up, spinning, people stepping into pressure to “help”, and the whole line learning to fight…

Sheep Yard Design: How to Build a Safer, Faster Flow

Livestock Handling & Yard Design, Sheep Handling & Yard DesignBy alex.wivell8@googlemail.comApril 6, 2026Leave a comment

If your sheep yard keeps jamming at the race mouth, you can feel it in five minutes: sheep spin, the noise goes up, and someone ends up standing where sheep want to go. That’s rarely “bad sheep”. It’s usually a layout that breaks the forward draw with a blind corner, a dead-end, or a pen…