The facilities for the breeding of bison include the summer pastures and winter pastures. The bison handling systems include the gathering pen, four sorting pens, a curved wide lane, four smaller sorting pens inside the barn, a weight scale, a squeeze chute and a loading area. There are also a corral, feedlot pens and finishing feedlots.

All farms and ranches for bison breeding have facilities that basically include the same elements. The Borealis farm differs due to the fact that their corral is partially located indoors. Inspired by the facilities of Agriculture Canada at the Lacolle border crossing and thanks to the advice of Marc Dufour of Agriculture Canada, the access corridor and the squeeze chute were installed totally inside a barn.

When a group of about a dozen bison is set free from one of the mini-pens of the corral they are led down a control alley and then enter a narrower interior corridor where the bison are sorted and separated into smaller groups. This work is done in silence and almost total darkness. Once the animal is in darkness, it becomes immobile and silent which is characteristic of the bison at night.

The bison moves, by itself, down the interior corridor which is subdivided into a series of small pens adjacent to one another. The bison is naturally attracted to the light appearing at the end of the corridor. Just before it is set free, the bison will make its way into the squeeze chute. Along the way, the animal is weighed on the scale incorporated into the floor of one of the sections.