Day 092 - 27 Feb 95 - Page 41


     
     1        A.  No, I cannot estimate the volume back in 1985.
     2
     3   Q.   If that was right, it would have been more than 150 million
     4        a year?
     5        A.  I do not know the volume that we had in 1985.
     6
     7   Q.   It is not likely to have gone down since then, though, is
     8        it?
     9        A.  No, it has gone up.
    10
    11   Q.   So is it possible that the figures that we worked out that
    12        you were using 80 to a million broilers a week are less
    13        than ---
    14        A.  No.
    15
    16   Q.   -- what is actually used?
    17        A.  No, no that is way too much.
    18
    19   Q.   Sorry?
    20        A.  That is way too much.  We only used 200 million pounds
    21        per year to 250 million pounds per year.  That is the
    22        figure of 1994.  There is no way we can produce those kinds
    23        of numbers in a week.
    24
    25   Q.   All the chickens that are used are raised in broiler
    26        houses?
    27        A.  Yes.
    28
    29   Q.   Just starting with the hatcheries, can you just explain
    30        what the system is in the States?
    31        A.  For broilers?
    32
    33   Q.   Yes.
    34        A.  Well, starting with the hatcheries, they spend -- in
    35        the hatcheries they are incubated.
    36
    37   Q.   Right.
    38        A.  They hatch.
    39
    40   Q.   Are they on trays of eggs?
    41        A.  Yes, they are in trays where the humidity and the
    42        relative humidity and the temperature is controlled.  Prior
    43        to getting there all of the hatcheries are sanitized
    44        completely.  Then they hatch.
    45
    46   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Please keep your voice up, Dr. Gomez
    47        Gonzalez?
    48        A.  Sorry.  Then once they hatch they are moved to a
    49        vaccination area.  They may or may not be debeaked,
    50        depending. 
    51 
    52   MS. STEEL:  What happens in the vaccination area? 
    53        A.  They vaccinate the birds, obviously.
    54
    55   Q.   Right.
    56        A.  They go through it is almost like a cage that produces
    57        a vault, so they go through there.  The vaccine gets into
    58        their eyes.  That is how they vaccinate them.  Then they go
    59        into -----
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