Day 019 - 27 Jul 94 - Page 32
1 tab J?
A. Yes.
2
Q. Page 326, the pages at the bottom?
3 A. Yes.
4 Q. The broilers you were sampling there were seven weeks old
and 2.8 kilograms, were they not?
5 A. This is study 1, is it?
6 Q. Yes.
A. Right, OK. Yes.
7
Q. If you compare that with the chickens you studied at Sun
8 Valley poultry referred to in your statement, that is
quite a bit heavier than the ones at Sun Valley poultry,
9 is it not?
A. That is correct.
10
MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do you know what a two kilogram broiler,
11 that is, four pounds four ounces, that is live weight,
presumably?
12 A. Correct.
13 Q. What that would come out at in a supermarket?
A. As a carcass weight?
14
Q. The carcass?
15 A. You are talking about the killing-out per cent?
16 Q. With the neck and so on inside it?
A. Right, you are talking, it is about three-quarters of
17 the weight is present in the supermarket. 70 per cent,
three-quarters.
18
MS. STEEL: In the last week or -- well, as they get heavier
19 they are more likely to develop problems, are they not?
A. Up to a certain limit, yes, within the range we are
20 talking about, yes.
21 Q. So it could be that given another week more of the birds
would have developed problems?
22 A. That is possible, yes.
23 Q. Can we look at page 328 of that study?
A. Yes.
24
Q. Even where the broilers selected were from normal
25 commercial broiler lines, the scores were better, were
they not, for ones that had more freedom of movement?
26
MR. JUSTICE BELL: If you are referring to a part of an
27 article, it would help me if you actually say which part
of the page you are looking at, whether it is a table or
28 part of a text.
29 MS. STEEL: OK. It is in the text.
30 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
