Day 093 - 28 Feb 95 - Page 56
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2 Q. You do not know?
3 A. No.
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5 Q. You do not think so?
6 A. No. That does not sound right.
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8 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do you want to ask him individually about the
9 mud, fly infestation, manure?
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11 MS. STEEL: Yes. Sometimes the conditions in feed lots are
12 muddy?
13 A. Yes, if they range it, it gets muddy.
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15 Q. After the animals have been there are a couple of weeks or
16 a month or so, they would be more or less continually muddy
17 unless it was exceptionally dry weather?
18 A. It depends on the environment. The feed lots are
19 concentrated in the dry areas. The last one I was at was
20 in Utah, that is last month, the area Utah, Phoenix, where
21 it is really dry, those are the areas where you would find
22 concentration, Nebraska, Colorado, the concentration of
23 feed lots. The areas that are wet do not have feed lots
24 normally.
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26 Q. What about fly infested?
27 A. No. You might find flies, but to feel that there is a
28 problem with flies that you cannot walk around, no. In
29 fact in the last month I have travelled to several states
30 in the United States, I have seen several feed lots and
31 I do not even recall seeing a single fly.
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33 Q. What about manure filled?
34 A. They do contain manure, the animals are there, but the
35 normal practice is to pile the manure in one hill that
36 serves two purposes. One is to dry out the manure and the
37 other produces some fermentation that produces heat that
38 helps the animal warm up when there is cold weather.
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40 Q. So the heap is left in the middle of the feed lot?
41 A. The "heat"?
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43 Q. The heap.
44 A. The "hill" you mean?
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46 Q. The hill.
47 A. It could be in any place in the feed lot. It could be
48 in the middle, the corner, wherever the best location.
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50 Q. It is not going to heat up many cows, is it?
51 A. Excuse me?
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53 Q. It is not going to heat up many cows, is it?
54 A. The purpose is not to provide a complete heating system
55 for all the cows there. There are quite a few cows that go
56 there and lay there.
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58 Q. Shipping fever is something of a problem in the United
59 States, is it not?
60 A. Which one?
