Day 088 - 13 Feb 95 - Page 76


     
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     2   MS. STEEL:  So you have the same number of fights inside as you
     3        have outside?
     4        A.  I would have said it is very similar according to the
     5        circumstances of whether people mix peer groups.
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     7   Q.   What goes into pig food?
     8        A.  What goes into pig food?
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    10   Q.   What are the pigs fed?  The weaners get a different diet,
    11        do they not, to breeding sows?
    12        A.  Yes.
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    14   Q.   And finishing pigs?
    15        A.  Yes.
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    17   Q.   So let us start with the breeding pigs, what do they get
    18        fed?
    19        A.  They get cereal and protein diet.
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    21   Q.   What is the protein?
    22        A.  The protein is a combination of fish meal and soya.
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    24   Q.   Fish meal and soya?
    25        A.  Yes.
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    27   Q.   Is that all?
    28        A.  That is where our proteins come from mainly.
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    30   Q.   Mainly?
    31        A.  Yes.  We can say definitely all of it.
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    33   Q.   All of it?
    34        A.  Yes.
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    36   Q.   What about the pig feed for the weaners?
    37        A.  Milk powder you can add to the piglets.
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    39   Q.   Piglets?
    40        A.  Yes, and the weaners will be just a different level of
    41        protein to the sows and the finishers.
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    43   Q.   That would just be soya and fish meal?
    44        A.  Yes.
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    46   Q.   Does soya make up quite a proportion of that?
    47        A.  It can vary.
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    49   Q.   What proportion is it?
    50        A.  It varies to least cost formula. 
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    52   Q.   Least cost formula did you say? 
    53        A.  Yes.
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    55   Q.   So what would be the percentage that it varies between?
    56        A.  Sometimes it can be eliminated.  It is all about cost
    57        of production when you come to feed, and it can be
    58        eliminated and it can be to 20 per cent.
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    60   Q.   Up to 20 per cent.  So, on average would it be about 10

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