DutchNews, October 10, 2017
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| Photo: Kipster.com |
A chicken farm in
Castenray, in the province of Limburg, claims to have produced the first CO2
neutral egg, public broadcaster NOS reports.
Kipster, which advertises itself
as ‘the world’s most animal and environmentally friendly chicken farm’, says
the CO2 neutral egg is a ‘world first’.
‘Our chickens are white. They weigh
less than brown chickens and eat less. So we save on raw materials. They eat what
are called ‘residual flows’ such as left over bread and agricultural
by-products. We don’t feed them corn, for instance,’ chicken farmer Ruud
Zanders told NOS.
The farm has also been fitted with 1,100 solar panels to
boost sustainable energy usage. ‘We use 40% of the energy we generate and sell
the rest. This makes our farm, and the eggs, CO2 neutral,’ NOS quotes Zanders
as saying.
The chickens’ living quarters, which were designed with the input of
the animal protection organisation Dierenbescherming, consists of a glass
covered inside garden with trees and tree trunks for the birds, and two outside
spaces. ‘Retired’ chickens, the Kipster website writes, ‘are not dumped in
Africa to disrupt the market there but are processed here into high-quality
products’.
The eggs will cost 23 to 24 cents apiece compared to 16 to 17 cents
for a conventional free-range egg. The entire stock for the next five years has
been sold to supermarket Lidl, where they will go on sale later this month, NOS
said.
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