Day 114 - 04 Apr 95 - Page 57
1 A. Yes, every Wednesday and the first Tuesday in every
2 months.
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4 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It has a cattle market, has it, still?
5 A. Yes. Generally it is a horse market now. In those
6 days it had cattle and calves. Now it has other animals on
7 the first Tuesday of every month and every Wednesday it has
8 a few goats and sheep and some pigs, but the main mixed
9 market is on other days. I have also been concerned with
10 other markets, Guildford is one, for example.
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12 MR. RAMPTON: Have you ever been directly concerned in animal
13 husbandry?
14 A. My contact is, as I mentioned yesterday, I suppose the
15 husbandry I am involved with is this farm in Burwash.
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17 Q. Can we leave that on one side? I will come to that
18 I promise. Leaving that on one side, have you had any
19 farming experience?
20 A. No. I have worked for a week or so on a farm but that
21 is all.
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23 Q. An old fashioned sort of farm?
24 A. Yes, mixed farming generally.
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26 Q. But not an intensive modern farm?
27 A. No.
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29 Q. Tell me a little bit, if you will, about this I think you
30 called it a farm animal sanctuary, in effect, is that
31 right?
32 A. Yes.
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34 Q. Where is it?
35 A. Burwash in East Sussex.
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37 Q. How long has that existed?
38 A. That has actually existed for, I think, 20 years or
39 possibly a bit more. I have not been involved with it for
40 more than about seven or eight years.
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42 Q. I think you said it had roughly 60 heads of cattle and
43 sheep?
44 A. Right.
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46 Q. How many of those are cattle?
47 A. Most of those are now cattle, I would think probably 50
48 or 55.
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50 Q. Is that a stable population or does it change as you find
51 new animals to bring into the sanctuary?
52 A. We cannot afford to bring any more in. It changes
53 slowly as the elderly ones die.
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55 Q. That is the limit, apart from observations you have been
56 making which I will ask you about as well, of your direct
57 experience in animal husbandry, is it?
58 A. I have obviously visited a large number of farms.
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60 Q. But you have not worked extensively with the animals on a
