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Battery is the most widespread farming type for laying hens. Cages are equipped with roosts, artificial nests, dust containers and scrapers to improve their conditions. The density of animals per square metre is checked for an optimal yield. The laying hens are thus bred in a closed building and do not have any access to an outside course.

More comfortable for the laying hens than the classical cage breeding, the breeding on ground is carried out in closed buildings (with or without aviaries), without any access to an outside course. The density of animals bred in these buildings is less than the one of the cage breeding.

The free range hens have the same area per animal than for the breeding on ground. However, besides they have an outside access, with a minimal area allocated per animal. The registered “Label Rouge” poultry farms give more outside space per hen and limit the number of animals per building

This is the most comfortable farming type for hens. The density per square metre in the building is only 6 animals and 4 animals per square metre of outside course. The hens' feeding is exclusively based on bio-labelled ingredients.

The alternative egg

The egg is a universal ingredient. It can be found in a vast number of recipes and so it is used everywhere in the world.

To meet this increasing world demand, IGRECA must adapt its production to the specific requirements from industry but must also meet the final consumer’s functional and cultural needs.

With this aim in view, IGRECA encourages the laying hen breeding partners to develop their innovation procedure.

The public increasing interest about the animal’s comfort encourages more than ever these new practices. So, since 2012, the classical battery has adopted larger spaces for its laying hens.

On IGRECA’s side, there is a whole range of products with refined and increased or completed specificities.

Special features

IGRECA offers products with salt, sugar or other ingredient proportions in keeping with your specific needs. As well, some specific solutions (High Gel white, Egg products enriched in Omegas 3 or with a rate of fatty acids compatible with baby food…) will be as many answers meeting your industrial expectations.

All these products can guarantee you accompaniment and support in your ambitions.

Certifications

The new ways of production are an integral part of IGRECA’s global quality procedure. All these practices meet some strict specifications. The compliance with these instructions is regularly in-house controlled and they are validated by specialized bodies which testify the conformity of the production through obtaining the corresponding labels.

Approvals

In addition to industry and health certifications, IGRECA offers products authorized by different bodies.

Halal egg products

Farmed animals, laying hen food products, egg processing comply with very precise and defined criteria to meet cultural practices. A specialized body checks the compliance with the processes.

Kosher egg products

Farmed animals, laying hen food products, egg processing comply with very precise and defined criteria to meet cultural practices. A specialized body checks the compliance with the processes.

Max Havelaar labelled egg products

The Max Havelaar guarantee is affixed in France on products certified by auditors based on the international specifications of the Fairtrade Labelling Organizations. This label aims at certifying the fair remuneration and at a fairer value of the work of the participants in the production coming from southern countries as well as their perpetuation of the trade relations.

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