Day 090 - 16 Feb 95 - Page 60
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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.
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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 .....
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13 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If there is a breed which you have just lost,
14 you can easily put it tomorrow.
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16 MS. STEEL: I think that might be the best idea.
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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?
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23 MS. STEEL: I can continue on leg problems anyway, just
24 generally.
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26 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Very well.
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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.
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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.
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46 Q. Out of those eight?
47 A. Yes.
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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.
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57 Q. You actually said six per cent yesterday, mortality?
58 A. And one per cent of that, roughly.
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60 Q. Right. So it is five plus one.
