Day 090 - 16 Feb 95 - Page 52


     
     1        A.  They are counted into crates.  They are counted by the
     2        catching team, yes.
     3
     4   Q.   Is a record kept of that?
     5        A.  Yes, there is.
     6
     7   Q.   Do you compare the figures of the birds going to slaughter
     8        with the figures, the original stocking figures and the
     9        numbers of mortalities?
    10        A.  Yes, we do.  It is very important.
    11
    12   Q.   Is it the case that there are often birds unaccounted for?
    13        A.  Occasionally you will get discrepancies that the number
    14        of birds delivered to the farm has been incorrectly
    15        recorded.  Occasionally the catchers will find that there
    16        are more birds there than they expected.  These instances
    17        do occur, but they are not frequent and we usually have to
    18        find an explanation.
    19
    20   Q.   What about instances of there being less birds than
    21        expected?
    22        A.  It usually means that there were less delivered in the
    23        first place.  What can happen is that the hatchery, for
    24        example, say they are expected to hatch 14,000, that would
    25        be the calculated amount for the day, they might only hatch
    26        13,000, they deliver those to the farm but the farm records
    27        them as 14,000 when in fact there were only 13,000.
    28
    29   Q.   How would you check that six weeks later?
    30        A.  The only way you can check it is to go back to the
    31        hatchery. The records in the hatchery will always be
    32        accurate.  Sometimes data can be misplaced between the
    33        hatchery and the farm by the delivery driver or whoever,
    34        and the accurate source of the records would be back at the
    35        hatchery.
    36
    37   Q.   What happens to the environment/index.html">litter that is cleaned out of the
    38        broiler sheds at Sun Valley?
    39        A.  The environment/index.html">litter is sold to local farmers as a fertilizer, an
    40        organic fertilizer, which they spread on the land.
    41
    42   Q.   It is sometimes used as food for other animals?
    43        A.  Well, not in the case of our environment/index.html">litter.  There are
    44        processes which can allow that to happen, but in our case
    45        our environment/index.html">litter goes for spreading on the land.
    46
    47   Q.   You know that?
    48        A.  I do.
    49
    50   Q.   Has that always been the case? 
    51        A.  Yes, it has. 
    52 
    53   Q.   In the industry in general, does the environment/index.html">litter sometimes get
    54        fed back to the poultry?
    55        A.  The environment/index.html">litter would not be fed back to the poultry, no.
    56
    57   Q.   So it would go to things like cows and pigs?
    58        A.  The technology is available to allow that to happen
    59
    60   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  We will take our break there.

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