It’s a classic design school project: redesign an everyday object (the stapler and the chair are popular picks.) Maxime Evrard, a student at the Ecole de Design Nantes, chose to redesign the chicken coop. You thought the Eglu was cool? Maxime’s Cocorico looks like a spaceship. With a tent attached. Would this be a good home for chickens? I have no idea. Willi? Robin? Amy? Other chicken parents? Wanna weigh in?
We all know that sustainability is beyond hip, especially if you can use it to sell your product. But the fact that a chicken coop has become the new objet du jour? Is homesteading on the cutting edge of cool?
That’s pretty cool! Wonder how much it would cost? And if the materials are biodegradable/recyclable? If not, it seems a bit silly. I don’t have chickens, just admire others’.
Very cool! I have chickens but they aren’t cool enough for something like that, lol!
Well, not exactly predator proof or realistic for a second, but it does LOOK cool. Us with real chickens would have to have a sit down meeting with them to see how this idea’d go over in the poultry barn. Those geese get wind of this and its ALL over!
i’m the designer of “cocorico”
i have some accurary to bring about my product.
First, the materials are recyclable “karen”
polypropyl
With cocorico, i tray to improve pratice which sink into oblivion because not really suitable for new way of life and hygiens laws
if you need more informations about this product or if you have comments, send me an email.I try to reply in best delay.
maxime evrard
evrard44@voila.fr
I can’t show this coop to my chickens…it is way cooler than theirs and they might be jealous. I do think it looks a little small. The run looks like it would keep chickens in, but I think raccoons would find their way inside easily. For now, my girls with have to stick with their entirely uncool, but safe coop.
It is certainly a neat spin the chicken coop, but I don’t know how practical it is. Keep in mind though that I am not the proud mama of cluckers, so I am certainly not a voice of authority on the matter.
I suppose I could see this going over well with the uber hip urban homesteading crowd ;)
Karen – I’ve emailed Maxime regarding cost and availability, although I believe it’s probably just a prototype at this point.
Inadvertent Farmer – Thanks for commenting and for leading me to your site! I’ve added you to my blogroll.
Sonya – LOL. I didn’t know geese were so ornery. Oh, wait a moment – I suppose I did. That’s kind of what I thought – good-looking but not realistic.
Willi – thanks for weighing in. I think your chickens would agree: uncool and safe is better than cool but dead!
Laurel – Yeah, exactly what came to my mind. I do love to see a designer’s take on such a utilitarian product.
I don’t know about chickens, but my kids would LOVE this!
That’s pretty cool. It looks like a fun little home for a very small flock of chickens.
Emma – LOL. I can totally see that. It would make a very cool playhouse.
Lucy – Thanks for weighing in. Just checked out your blog — so pretty! I’ve added you to my blogroll.
My Significant Other is fond of messing around with leftover wood from his other projects and he is still tinkering with the hen house he built last year, so I reckon he’d be a bit hurt if I got one of these… but I seriously love the non-angular design of this Cocorico. I’d have to stop giving my chickens old-fashioned names though and start naming them after achingly hip designers instead…
Since getting chickens I have learned that there is an enormous number of people who WANT chickens, but don’t have the time to build a coop and figure everything out. So I figure that anything that makes chicken care accessible to the masses is generally a good thing. The Eglu is brilliant, as my British friends would say, for that reason.
That said, any structure must be safe and comfortable for the chickens. I love the Eglu, but I wouldn’t say it’s good for more than a couple of chickens. My own chickens wanted to roam around and just be chickens, pecking at bugs and stretching their legs. Even now that they live in a palace, I let them out for their walkabout time, because they are happier.
It’s a balancing act all the way around. What looks good must also be practical.
Robin Wedewer
National Gardening Examiner, Examiner.com
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