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1 malnutrition or dehydration before they could be scored"?
A. Yes.
2
Q. "The true prevalence of birds in categories 4 and 5 is
3 therefore likely to be higher than that reported here"?
A. That is right.
4
Q. Is that likely to be the case for Sun Valley as well?
5 A. Your question is whether there were any fours or fives
within the mortality. That is your question, is it?
6
Q. Yes, either in the birds that were culled or the birds
7 that died at birth?
A. All we can say from the observations I made was that
8 there were no fours and fives in the live birds. So I did
not do any post mortems on any of the dead birds.
9
Q. Did you look at them at all?
10 A. No, not any dead birds in the shed; there were none
collected, saved or examined.
11
Q. So you cannot speak on that?
12 A. No, I cannot. I have had -- no, ask Dr. Pattison.
13 Q. Do you know whether on previous visits you have seen any
birds with a gait score of four or five?
14 A. I have never been to a Sun Valley rearing and growing
shed before this occasion.
15
MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do you want to pick a moment about now to
16 break off?
17 MS. STEEL: Yes, I had not realised the time.
18 MR. JUSTICE BELL: We will resume at 2 o'clock.
19 (Short Adjournment)
2.00 p.m.
20
THE WITNESS: Can I draw the court's attention to one
21 correction in a comment I made earlier on? It is a minor
comment, but it is an inaccuracy. I used the name of a
22 micro organism which was wrong. I said pasteurella, it
should be mycoplasma, in connection with causes of
23 infectious ascites.
24 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Thank you.
25 MR. MORRIS: I was just going to inform the court that we do
not feel we will be finished this afternoon and it would
26 be better to raise that now.
27 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. Let us look at the topics you have to
ask about. You have been dealing with the rearing of
28 broilers so far. Have you got to go on to the slaughter
of broilers?
29
MS. STEEL: Yes.
30
MR. MORRIS: That is the next.
