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     2   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Then there is an easy way of dealing with it.
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     4   MR. RAMPTON:  Can I add to that, the reason I stood up was that
     5        I think I have already said, that a legible copy -- I agree
     6        about page 80 -- of page 80 is at appendix 5 to Mr. Keith
     7        Kenny's statement in the yellow volume VII at tab 1.
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     9   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
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    11   MS. STEEL:  That was it.  It is legible in Mr. Kenny's one, that
    12        one page.
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    14   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  One way or another, I hope you can have
    15        legible copies of all five of those pages.
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    17   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes.  We will try to get 67 and 68 from
    18        McDonald's, see if we can get a better copy.
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    20                    DR. MARK PATTISON, recalled
                   Cross-Examined by the Defendants.
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    23   MS. STEEL:  What percentage of the chickens slaughtered at the
    24        Sun Valley plant are from company-owned broiler houses?
    25        A.  About 20 per cent are from company-owned houses, about
    26        80 per cent from private farmers who are on contract to Sun
    27        Valley.
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    29   Q.   Those are the only two sources of the chicken?
    30        A.  That is correct.
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    32   Q.   How many units does the company own?
    33        A.  The number of actual housing units within the company
    34        is probably something over 550, I would guess, and as I am
    35        saying 20 per cent of them are company-owned, 80 per cent
    36        of them are contract.
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    38   Q.   So those 550 are not all owned by the company, you are
    39        saying?
    40        A.  That is what I have said.
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    42   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It would be about 110 company and 440
    43        contractors, if your figures are correct?
    44        A.  Yes.
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    46   MS. STEEL:  Is a unit just one broiler shed or is that something
    47        more than that?
    48        A.  A unit of housing is one broiler shed, one shed.
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    50   Q.   Right.  How many birds are kept per shed? 
    51        A.  For broilers, we normally have 20 to 25,000 in a modern 
    52        shed.  Some of the older sheds are smaller and, therefore, 
    53        do not house so many.
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    55   Q.   What size will the modern sheds be then?
    56        A.  The standard shed is 14,500 square feet.
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    58   Q.   The older ones?
    59        A.  They can be any size down to ones that will hold
    60        approximately 10,000 birds.