Day 095 - 02 Mar 95 - Page 27
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2 Q. The male chicks are rejected for battery laying?
3 A. Now you are talking two different -- we do not know
4 from this whether they are laying hens or they are
5 broilers. You cannot tell from there. The males can be
6 raised and can be sold. There are people who raise from
7 the laying hens.
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9 Q. All of them? All the male hens?
10 A. I do not know all of them. I cannot tell you. A lot
11 of them end up in markets for the cages and things like
12 that. All of them -- I cannot make such a wide assumption
13 from an industry like a poultry industry in the United
14 States.
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16 Q. Are you aware at least of some of the male chicks being
17 killed off?
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19 MR. JUSTICE BELL: We have got right away from the film, have we
20 not? Let us get back to the film and if you want to come
21 back to something, do. I was merely asking if that is not
22 what happens in what particular respects that I could
23 identify.
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25 (The video continued)
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27 MS. STEEL: Is there anything unusual about that?
28 A. Very unusual.
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30 Q. You have not seen that?
31 A. I have never seen that happen, no, never. Absolutely
32 not.
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34 Q. So do you think things have changed since those times?
35 A. I do not know. I have never seen that happen in my
36 entire life to that extreme. I do not know what this was.
37 It was obviously a very poorly run, that operation. I do
38 not know where that came from. You do not see those --
39 I have never seen those kinds of operations.
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41 Q. Was the type of equipment that he was using, was that the
42 kind of equipment that is generally used?
43 A. I have not seen, not what our suppliers that I have
44 seen they use. They use, it is more of a block. It just
45 does not cut, it just burns the tip. It is not what I have
46 seen in operations.
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48 Q. How long have they been using that burn system them?
49 A. That is the only thing that I have seen them doing it
50 was -- I only saw them a few times in 1991, I think, about
51 1991, 1992.
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53 MS. STEEL: Carry on, please.
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55 (The video recording continued)
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57 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Could you pause there, Mrs. Brinley-Codd,
58 please? Do you recognise those as either broilers or
59 layers or what? Can you say?
60 A. No, at the beginning of that early age it is not clear.
