Day 092 - 27 Feb 95 - Page 41
1 A. No, I cannot estimate the volume back in 1985.
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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.
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7 Q. It is not likely to have gone down since then, though, is
8 it?
9 A. No, it has gone up.
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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.
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16 Q. -- what is actually used?
17 A. No, no that is way too much.
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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.
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25 Q. All the chickens that are used are raised in broiler
26 houses?
27 A. Yes.
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29 Q. Just starting with the hatcheries, can you just explain
30 what the system is in the States?
31 A. For broilers?
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33 Q. Yes.
34 A. Well, starting with the hatcheries, they spend -- in
35 the hatcheries they are incubated.
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37 Q. Right.
38 A. They hatch.
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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.
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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.
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52 MS. STEEL: What happens in the vaccination area?
53 A. They vaccinate the birds, obviously.
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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
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