Day 088 - 13 Feb 95 - Page 61
1 it is all used up they will have all other pork, indoor
2 pork.
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4 MS. STEEL: So basically ----
5 A. One thing we must make clear on the indoor pork, our
6 indoor pork is reared on straw.
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8 Q. But basically McKey's would get outdoor pork if there was
9 some left over?
10 A. That is correct.
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12 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I may have completely missed the point or
13 forgotten it, but the weaners that come from the indoor
14 sows being an indoor breed themselves, do they stay
15 indoors?
16 A. No. The weaners, because we have found the outdoor
17 kennel system to be extremely successful in rearing the
18 young weaner, all our weaners from whether they be indoor
19 reared or outdoor reared have that time in a kennel.
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21 Q. That is what I thought you were saying this morning. I was
22 rather thrown off course by the different breeds, some
23 indoors and some outdoors.
24 A. But on our -----
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26 Q. When they go into the finishing, when they go to finishing
27 school, what happens then?
28 A. What we do -----
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30 Q. Can they still be heritage four-quarter?
31 A. We have to channel our outdoor reared pigs, our freedom
32 pigs and our heritage pigs, through special farms or
33 selected farms, so that will be all freedom food pigs on
34 that farm, all heritage food on that farm.
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36 Q. So they do actually live outside for the whole of their
37 lives?
38 A. No. I will try to explain again. All the Bowes'
39 units, whether indoor or outdoor, have the kennels, right.
40 When those pigs come out of those kennels we will take a
41 heritage production unit, that is outdoor. They will then
42 go on to farmer (A) who will be continuously finishing
43 heritage type pigs from that weaner all the time, so there
44 is a less chance of transferring or mixing pigs where you
45 can transfer disease, etc. Right. Then when you come to
46 freedom food pigs, they again would come out of their
47 kennels from the outside and they will ----
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49 Q. They were born in their arks?
50 A. Yes.
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52 Q. They will have their outdoor kennels?
53 A. Correct.
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55 Q. Then they will be sent to?
56 A. To specified freedom food finisher farms.
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58 Q. Where they will remain out-of-doors?
59 A. No. They then go inside straw-based systems.
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