Cage and free-range supplement each other

About 60% of laying hens in France are kept in enriched cages. However, the market for cage eggs is shrinking. This made Gwenael Carree want to expand his farm with a free-range poultry barn in 2017. “My cooperation wants these eggs but can only get them if it also buys my cage eggs,” the French poultry farmer smiles. When Mr Carree took over his father’s 55-hectare poultry and arable farm in 1995, the future looked bright. Of course, the farm needed investments at a later stage, especia