Israeli Innovation on Environmental Chicken Coop
In the past, we reported on manure powered dairy farms. Now, in Israel, they’re developing a chicken waste powered coop with wind turbines and solar sells. Being touted as the “Coop of the Future,” the Agrotop coop also has special egg collection chutes designed to enable birds to more easily lay eggs – and nearly double the space currently used to house them.
This not only makes the whole operation environmental. It makes it more humane, an issue Naturalbuy is very concerned with.
Under new regulations by the EU set to go into effect in 2012, egg producers will be required to provide 750 square centimeters of space for each bird. Also required will be sand or grass, imitating the birds’ natural habitat, and even soft material for birds to rest on.
To top it off with a cherry, the coop itself is largely built of recycled materials.
Though the coop is more expensive than traditional ones, the money-saving advantages make it more economical in the long run. Those are, running the coup, refrigerating the eggs, and cleaning up the waste. Since this one uses the waste to power the coop with enough power to refrigerate the eggs, that’s three birds with one stone. But we won’t kill any of them that are in the coop.
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