Day 088 - 13 Feb 95 - Page 51
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2 Q. It varies?
3 A. Yes.
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5 Q. Between what and what?
6 A. I would say it varies between 25 to 50 a week. Some
7 weeks it might be none and other weeks there might be 80.
8 It is almost an impossible question to answer.
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10 Q. What age are breeding stock when you purchase them?
11 A. Approximately 9, 10 months, 8 to 10 months.
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13 Q. Does the company use specific pathogen-free breeding pigs?
14 A. There are pathogen free pigs in the grand-parents'
15 stock.
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17 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Keep your voice up again. I am sure a soft
18 voice is desirable when you are near animals but it cannot
19 be too loud for me?
20 A. In the grandparents' stock.
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22 MS. STEEL: So that actually would not have any effect on the
23 pigs that you get?
24 A. Basically not.
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26 Q. What conditions do these pigs come from?
27 A. What conditions? Could you explain?
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29 Q. Well, do you have any specification about what type of
30 system is acceptable or not acceptable?
31 A. Yes. We have a great deal of our stock from outdoor
32 reared grandparents and multiplying stock, and we also have
33 some from straw based systems.
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35 Q. When you say "grandparents", are you talking about the
36 grandparents of the pigs that you use for fattening, or are
37 you talking about grandparents of the pigs for breeding?
38 A. Grandparents for breeding.
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40 Q. So their grandparents might have come from outside?
41 A. Yes.
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43 Q. But their parents not?
44 A. It can be either or.
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46 Q. You have not got any specifications then?
47 A. Pardon?
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49 Q. You have not got any specifications about that then?
50 A. Yes, for both because ----
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52 Q. -- Either are acceptable?
53 A. No. Let us get this clear. We are producing outdoor
54 pigs and we are producing indoor pigs, so it is two
55 separate streams coming from separate ----.
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57 MR. JUSTICE BELL: -- They are different sources. They are bred
58 for one or the other?
59 A. Excuse me, sir. One system, if you like, is bred for
60 outdoor production and one is bred for indoor production.
