Foreign Affairs committee  A couple of hundred birds.

Foreign Affairs committee  I'd like to say again how much we appreciate you taking the time and listening to the story. We really appreciate the thoughts and ideas and your obvious interest in this. Thank you.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes. For 2,000 birds, it would probably be about $15,000 Canadian to set up the system.

Foreign Affairs committee  Absolutely, yes. It's fully scalable. The cages all connect mechanically. You can have as few or as many as you want.

Foreign Affairs committee  They probably could. It may be a little more than that, but it's in that ballpark, I would think.

Foreign Affairs committee  After our day at the women's prison, we also had to go to the psychiatric hospital to pick up a baby, so that's a whole other story. We were trying to relax in the evening, sitting out by a fire. They have quite a few dogs on the property. All of a sudden the dogs go into some s

Foreign Affairs committee  We donate I think 16 tonnes a year to a children's charity in the form of powdered egg. That's another thing we're involved in. I suppose part of it is that we've focused on teaching them basic agricultural production skills. When you get into further processing, you're into so

Foreign Affairs committee  I actually have a picture of the snake, which we finally got. I can show you later. Yes, that's the snake story.

Foreign Affairs committee  I suppose it could be as small as a handful of birds. The units we're building in Swaziland are two 2,500-bird houses. The project I referred to in Mozambique houses roughly 2,000 birds per unit, from which you're going to get—I don't know—a little less than an egg a day. They're

Foreign Affairs committee  If you had a couple of hundred, you could be in that... I don't know what the cost would be on a per cage basis or a per housing-unit basis.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, you can pickle them. They also can be pasteurized in shell. That's not a technique that we've looked at just yet. With the volume of eggs they'll be going through with their hot meal program, I suspect that as they're hard-cooked, moved out, and consumed, we'll be looking a

Foreign Affairs committee  In Europe, they're not allowed to refrigerate eggs. If you go to a grocery store anywhere in Europe, you'll see them over where the bread is. They won't be in the cooler with the milk.

Foreign Affairs committee  It's a breed developed by Hy-Line International, the Silver Brown. When we went to Mozambique—layers will typically lay between 19 and 52 weeks of age, say, or even go later—those birds were 60 weeks of age and they were in amazing shape. Mortality was really low. They were still

Foreign Affairs committee  In the project in Swaziland we do not, because the commercial producer there, a company called Eagles Nest, has already agreed to supply out of their own. As they produce through their hatchery system pullets for their layer facilities, they will provide the pullets that we need.

Foreign Affairs committee  In a word, I suppose that we would ask the government to help us make this a success. As you heard me say earlier, countries such as Swaziland and many others desperately need adequate nutrition. You can't learn, can't live, and can't grow without adequate nutrition. Nothing else