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I recall looking at various slaugter houses around the USA and nothing is "Small" If you are trying to model stockyards for either resting and feeding in transit or.. a final stopping place before they hit the kill floor. Model it in any size you want to. <br /> <br />I have difficulty remembering one particular house in the west, but that one took up about 200 yards of road frontage and perhaps three times the distance deep. There was room for about 6 of us reefers to load and perhaps a equal number of livestock runners. The killfloor and processing plant buildings were one unit. The Walthers Slaughter house is very close to this unit. Except that the cattle ramp is different and the prototype building is precast concrete only two stories high with a "Tower" for whatever was needed in there. <br /> <br />I say pick your space and model it no matter how small or big. I encourage you to decide for yourself and have fun with this project. I have several threads related to my experiences with the Beef Industry that may help you out a little bit.
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