Day 093 - 28 Feb 95 - Page 29
1 Q. Right. How many chickens in each hand?
2 A. It could anywhere from about 15 to 16,000 to the
3 maximum of 22,000.
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5 Q. No, how many chickens in -----
6 A. Sorry.
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8 Q. Each time someone picks up chickens, how many would be in
9 each load to the crate?
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11 MR. JUSTICE BELL: The first thing is to establish that the
12 catcher picks up more than one chicken at a time, does he?
13 A. Yes.
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15 Q. Carries out more than one?
16 A. He carries two or three in each hand. It depends on
17 the person, the weight of the person.
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19 MS. STEEL: They will be held by one leg?
20 A. No, usually two.
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22 Q. Usually two legs?
23 A. It is two legs, yes.
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25 Q. Why is that? It is only one leg in this country?
26 A. One leg?
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28 Q. Yes.
29 A. They use the two legs in the US.
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31 Q. You do not know why that is; is it safer with two legs?
32 A. I do not know. I have not seen data comparing that.
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34 Q. When they are picked up, they just grab them by the legs,
35 do they, and then hold them upside-down in their hands and
36 then take them to -- is that part right so far?
37 A. Yes, they grab them by the legs and, usually, it is one
38 hand, when I come to think of it. They grab them by the
39 legs, then they go with the breast and they put them in a
40 cage.
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42 Q. They hold the breast while they put them in the cage?
43 A. That is what I have seen.
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45 Q. How do they do that if they have chickens in each hand?
46 A. That is what I said before, come to think of it --
47 I was trying to picture that.
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49 Q. So you are changing your mind again?
50 A. That is what I said.
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52 Q. They do carry chickens in both hands, do they not?
53 A. No, again there are variations. Not every person will
54 do the same. There are persons that will carry in two
55 hands; there are persons that will carry in one hand.
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57 Q. How long do they have to load the chickens?
58 A. How long do they have to load the chickens?
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60 Q. Yes.
