Day 090 - 16 Feb 95 - Page 44
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2 Q. In what way?
3 A. It has made the environment/index.html">litter much drier and more friable and,
4 therefore, it works better.
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6 Q. So that would be the same as water, it would be
7 helpful ---
8 A. Yes.
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10 Q. -- in reducing incidence of Hock Burn and things like that?
11 A. That is correct.
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13 Q. Is it right that by the time sheds are cleaned out at the
14 end of the cycle the environment/index.html">litter weighs five times as much as
15 when it was put in?
16 A. I am afraid I just do not know the answer to that
17 question.
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19 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If I looked at the environment/index.html">litter at the end of the
20 cycle, would I be able to still see it was made of paper
21 and wood shavings? Would I be able to distinguish bits of
22 paper and wood shavings in it or not?
23 A. I think, by and large, you would not. The bacterial
24 fermentation really means that it becomes fairly
25 indistinguishable by the end of the flock's life.
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27 Q. How firm is it?
28 A. It is most, it is a fairly solid material, but it is
29 also in good condition if it is -- it should be friable and
30 can be worked in the fingers.
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32 MR. MORRIS: Just one question: To go back, the barley, do you
33 know where you get the barley from?
34 A. The barley is usually grown by local suppliers in the
35 Hereford area.
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37 Q. The wheat, where is that generally?
38 A. Exactly the same. Mostly we buy it from local farmers.
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40 Q. What about the soya in the feed, where does that come from?
41 A. Well, soya is not a natural crop grown in this country,
42 so that is mostly imported from the USA.
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44 Q. Do you know where the sources of soya are apart from the
45 USA?
46 A. I think soya is -- it is certainly grown in South
47 America and also in southern parts of Europe; but those
48 would not normally be areas that we would draw from.
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50 Q. Where do you buy your feed from, as a whole, or do you make
51 it up yourself?
52 A. The feed is all manufactured ourselves from raw
53 materials that we buy.
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55 Q. Who do you buy your soya from?
56 A. I honestly cannot answer that. I just do not know.
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58 Q. You do not know. Is it from Cargill?
59 A. Cargill would not normally be a supplier of soya, no.
60 We might get other ingredients from them.
