Cédric Babin has been at the head of his farm, in Fontenai-les-Louvets, a delegated commune of Orée d'Écouves, in Orne, for ten years. He raises 90% organic chickens, guinea fowl, ducks, turkeys, geese and capons and completes his activity with 5% cattle and 5% horse pensions. “We slaughter 12,000 to 15,000 poultry per year, or 200 to 250 per week”he explains. To feed them, he tries to be as independent as possible: “We produce on 25 hectares, with a long rotation system, over seven years. We have mixtures of cereal and legume production. »
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To put it simply, each plot hosts various plantations in turn and is transformed into a temporary meadow every seven years. In total, the farm is 55 hectares. We find the breeder at the markets of Carrouges, on Wednesdays, and Alençon, on Thursdays and Saturdays.
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