Day 090 - 16 Feb 95 - Page 60


     
     1        lower.
     2
     3   Q.   What about McDonald's, do they take a particular part of a
     4        bird?
     5        A.  They take both the breast meat and the leg meat, the
     6        thigh meat, and it is used in different, in varying
     7        proportions.
     8
     9   MS. STEEL:  To be honest, I am really tired and I cannot find
    10        the specific reference that we asked Dr. Gregory about, but
    11        if you turn to page 16 of .....
    12
    13   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  If there is a breed which you have just lost,
    14        you can easily put it tomorrow.
    15
    16   MS. STEEL:  I think that might be the best idea.
    17
    18   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, do not bother about it now.  Leaving
    19        completion of that topic for tomorrow, is there another
    20        category you can go on for another 10 minutes or quarter of
    21        an hour?
    22
    23   MS. STEEL:  I can continue on leg problems anyway, just
    24        generally.
    25
    26   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Very well.
    27
    28   MS. STEEL (To the witness):  What proportion of birds at Sun
    29        Valley suffer from angular bone deformity?
    30        A.  It is not something that we would specifically record,
    31        so I cannot answer that.  Angular bone deformities are
    32        generally of the type that are genetically determined, and
    33        over the years we have seen a progressive reduction in the
    34        number of these types, but it is not something that we
    35        record.
    36
    37   Q.   Could you give us a rough percentage of what birds would be
    38        affected?
    39        A.  I could only do it from a point of view of taking one
    40        unit of, say, 20,000 birds, say, the mortality at the end
    41        might be of the order of, say, 20 birds per day, and you
    42        could say that probably about eight birds out of the 20
    43        would be culled for some sort of leg problem.  So, the
    44        angular deformities would be maybe two or three per house.
    45
    46   Q.   Out of those eight?
    47        A.  Yes.
    48
    49   Q.   And that is per day, you said 20 birds per day?
    50        A.  Yes, I am trying to think of an example because it is 
    51        not something we really record.  What I said yesterday was 
    52        that we would expect about five, if we had five per cent 
    53        mortality in a house which would include culls, the
    54        one per cent would be related to leg problems.  So, it is a
    55        significant cause of mortality.
    56
    57   Q.   You actually said six per cent yesterday, mortality?
    58        A.  And one per cent of that, roughly.
    59
    60   Q.   Right.  So it is five plus one.

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