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physically impossible for these two registered ewes to have
produced annually the high numbers of Rambouillet and Suffolk
breeding sheep attributed to them in the RCR #4 and RCR #6
corrected bills of sale.23 As the Court determined in its
22(...continued)
is listed among the breeding sheep sold to RCR #4 in petitioners'
corrected RCR #4 bill of sale. The corrected RCR #4 bill of sale
further shows this ewe to have been born on Apr. 18, 1982. See
infra Appendix B, tag No. 82-3.
23In this connection, David Barnes testified, on cross-
examination, as follows:
Q. So, one ewe during her lifetime couldn't produce
like hundreds of offspring?
A. Well, yes, she could.
Q. Okay. And in--would that be true in--when you
first started in 1981 for those ewes?
A. Yes, you could if you did embryo transplanting,
yes, you could.
Q. Would you do embryo transplants in 1981?
A. No, we wouldn't.
Q. 1982?
A. I think it was in about the 19--late 1989, '90,
'91, in those years we did embryo transplanting.
Q. Okay. So for ewes that were in existence earlier
than that, you wouldn't have hundreds of offspring?
A. No.
Q. Okay.
A. We'd like to, but no.
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