Day 090 - 16 Feb 95 - Page 38


     
     1   THE WITNESS:  I think the context is ----
     2
     3   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Can you recall that?
     4        A.  I cannot recall the specifics.
     5
     6   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, for what it is worth and your Lordship
     7        will decide what it is worth, I have no objection to that
     8        passage being put to the witness.  The witness must have
     9        the text, however.
    10
    11   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  That is fair enough.
    12
    13   MR. RAMPTON:  He should be given the time, if he requires, to
    14        look at any context.
    15
    16   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Stay in your seat, Dr. Pattison, and just
    17        read it.  If that provokes you to read some other part of
    18        the book, then do so.
    19
    20   MS. STEEL:  There is a reference there to boredom eating in
    21        broilers, is there not?
    22        A.  Yes, that is correct.
    23
    24   Q.   So, does that refresh your memory about boredom eating in
    25        broilers?
    26        A.  Yes, I think the context in which it is written is very
    27        much along the lines that I was describing this morning,
    28        where more and more people are looking at increasing the
    29        periods of darkness given to birds to improve their
    30        activity and it should improve their general welfare.
    31
    32   MR. RAMPTON:  Your Lordship should also note, because your
    33        Lordship has not a copy, that the words "boredom eating"
    34        are in inverted commas.
    35
    36   MS. STEEL:  When did you start to replace bell drinkers with
    37        nipple drinkers, nipple and cup drinkers?
    38        A.  The nipple and cup drinker system became available
    39        first, I would think, about six or seven years ago and has
    40        been progressively improved over the years.  So, it is now
    41        an accepted form of providing water.  They are
    42        progressively replacing the bell drinkers.
    43
    44   Q.   When did Sun Valley start replacing it?
    45        A.  When they first became available.  We tried out the
    46        initial systems that were available and then progressively
    47        we have been replacing the old systems with the new over
    48        the last five years.
    49
    50   Q.   Why have you been doing that? 
    51        A.  The main benefit from the nipple and cup system is that 
    52        it reduces the spillage of water on to the environment/index.html">litter, which 
    53        was a feature of the bell drinkers that was really highly
    54        undesirable.
    55
    56   Q.   For what reason?
    57        A.  The maintenance of good environment/index.html">litter is a prime -- of prime
    58        importance to birds to maintain dry and friable material
    59        for them to walk around on and to lie in.
    60

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