COCORETTE and their hens for the environment

To further its goals of hen welfare and environmental protection, Cocorette has taken a number of steps:

• Treating sick hens with herbal medicine and homeopathy
• Developing hen feed production at the farm using grains grown on-site
• Using the hen droppings on the farm
• Limiting need for transportation: A maximum of 200 km from producer to consumer after going through the packaging center
• Renovating old farm buildings or encouraging sustainable wooden construction
• Using molded cellulose egg boxes and creating a box marking center using laser marking

Cocorette has also established an innovative partnership with Auchan, a company with similar values. In order to reduce the shopping center's waste, Cocorette installs chicken coops near the stores and the chickens make use of the unsold food items (one hen can eat up to 50kg of waste per year). 

These chicken coops also make it possible to set up educational projects for children (raising awareness), as well as creating jobs as each chicken coop requires one person to take care of it. The first such chicken coop was created at Montauban in 2013, the next will be opened in 2014 in the Nord-Pas de Calais region of France.