Day 088 - 13 Feb 95 - Page 28


     
     1   Q.   Is it more enriched with proteins and stuff like that?
     2        A.  In actual fact, that will be less protein.
     3
     4   Q.   Less protein?
     5        A.  Yes.
     6
     7   Q.   More carbohydrate?
     8        A.  Yes.
     9
    10   Q.   Do you find any problem within these finishing units of
    11        aggression, fighting, matters of that kind?
    12        A.  If you keep the pigs in their peer groups as they come
    13        from the breeding units to the kennels, no, you will not.
    14        But if you, you know, unfortunately, sometimes you have to
    15        have a few pigs over and there can be a number of pigs,
    16        then what you have to mix at the end of a piggery very
    17        occasionally -- it does not happen very often -- but then
    18        again if you make sure that they have got plenty of straw
    19        to occupy themselves, the aggression is very, very small
    20        and limited.
    21
    22   Q.   By what means are they transported from the finishing unit
    23        to the factory?
    24        A.  By our-----
    25
    26   Q.   Another one of those?
    27        A.  By our lorries.
    28
    29   Q.   When they get to the slaughterhouse they are unloaded and
    30        are they kept overnight, ever?
    31        A.  Occasionally.
    32
    33   Q.   In what sort of conditions?
    34        A.  Strawed conditions.
    35
    36   Q.   Food?
    37        A.  Yes, food, water, as per norm.  The vet will insist
    38        upon that.  May I just go back, if I may, please, sir, to
    39        the question you asked me about aggression in pigs in the
    40        piggery?
    41
    42   Q.   Yes.
    43        A.  There is one area that has been over-looked and that is
    44        that if a pig is ill, aggression will start because that is
    45        nature's way of eliminating that pig.
    46
    47   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Aggression from the others, you mean?
    48        A.  Yes.
    49
    50   MR. RAMPTON:  The others will pick on it? 
    51        A.  That is correct, and that is where our stockmen then 
    52        have to take the remedial course in taking the pig out. 
    53
    54   Q.   I am going to ask you about your stockmen in a moment.
    55        They get to the slaughterhouse, the factory, and they are
    56        unloaded, sometimes they may be kept overnight, and you
    57        told us on straw and clean water, is it a covered facility?
    58        A.  Yes, it is.
    59
    60   Q.   All this time, so far as possible, are they still in their

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