- A Colomiers restaurateur has recovered around forty laying hens from the Gers promised for slaughter.
- Its customers can adopt them for free, just to always have fresh eggs.
- But they can also bring them back, if they get too wrapped up.
"The best way to get fresh eggs is to adopt a hen". This is basically what Nancy Walker-Aubry, the owner of the Friendly Auberge, a restaurant in Colomiers, near Toulouse, popular with locavores, explains to her customers.
And it's not just house advice since, for two meals, you can leave by taking a bird offered on your wing. A laying hen from a battery farm in the Gers, where after the age of one year, boarders take the direction of the slaughterhouse for reasons of profitability.
Nancy got to know her guests through the Facebook group Heidi's Chicken run, which has set itself the task of saving the reformed Gers hens. A week ago, she hit the road to bring some 40 hens back to Toulouse. "In a farm where there was space, air conditioning and where they lived rather in good conditions," she says. But inside anyway.
While behind the Friendly Auberge, there is a large lawn. "For the past week, they have been delighting to scratch the earth and they are getting organized," says Nancy, who has found an eco-friendly way to drain the peelings from the restaurant and offers very, very fresh boiled eggs.
About fifteen hens from this small community have already found a host family, and there are 25 left to place. "There are customers who came to eat on purpose to leave with a hen," says the restaurateur. For those who do not eat, I ask for a contribution of five euros ”. Above all, Nancy is ready to take over the chickens in case the customers get excited. "They are animals, not objects," insists Colomiers' mother hen.
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