Free Range or Caged?
iCupCakeNZ
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whats your opinion on the whole Free Range eggs or caged eggs?
I personally prefer Free Ranged, I like my chickens having sunlight lol
So what about you
I personally prefer Free Ranged, I like my chickens having sunlight lol
So what about you
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Personally, free range, from about 20 feet away, with feathers and a little sawdust stuck to it!#
I have my own chickens.
Always, always free range though.0 -
Lol, the city where my FIL lives (an urban town), the chickens are "free range" in back yards like every other house.
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Free range but I wish I had my own chickens instead.0
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Free Range. I don't buy any other.0
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Free range all the way.0
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The cheapest ones in the shop.
I am frugal :grumble:0 -
Have 8 hens myself love the free eggs and the fact they keep all the bugs cleared out of my back yard. Their a lot of fun to watch also. As far as the taste of the eggs I really can't tell much difference. On the other hand my mom has some ducks and love the taste of their eggs.0
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I'm vegan, so neither. But my family eats eggs. I buy eggs from a farmer friend who has happy, free range chickens. If I have to buy from the grocery store I buy free range then too.0
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Free Range - made the switch 3 years ago and I'm glad I did!0
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Free range, but only when you know the source (aka local farmers.) Free range is one of those fun terms, all it means is they have access to the outdoors, doesn't specify what type of outdoors, doesn't specify how long, or how often. A chicken could be kept in a cage with a small gravel yard to occasionally leave the cage and walk around in, and it can be marketed as "free range" in the US.The U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) requires that chickens raised for their meat have access to the outside in order to receive the free-range certification. There is no requirement for access to pasture, and there may be access to only dirt or gravel . Free-range chicken eggs, however, have no legal definition in the United States. Likewise, free-range egg producers have no common standard on what the term means.0
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I have 6 free-range bantams here at home that supply me with most of my eggs. They are getting older though and are slowing down, and that's ok. They are not the type that have been purposely bred to lay 365 days a year and die an early death, so they are just free to retire whenever they stop. One little bantam I swear has never laid an egg lol. She'll probably live until her mid-20s or something. Clever girl.
I buy local free range eggs if I am using a lot, for example when I am baking.
There is nothing better than freshly laid poached eggs...0 -
Free range - from one of my 19 hens! I haven't actually had to buy eggs for three years now... :-)0
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Free range here too.0
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Free range, but only when you know the source (aka local farmers.) Free range is one of those fun terms, all it means is they have access to the outdoors, doesn't specify what type of outdoors, doesn't specify how long, or how often. A chicken could be kept in a cage with a small gravel yard to occasionally leave the cage and walk around in, and it can be marketed as "free range" in the US.The U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) requires that chickens raised for their meat have access to the outside in order to receive the free-range certification. There is no requirement for access to pasture, and there may be access to only dirt or gravel . Free-range chicken eggs, however, have no legal definition in the United States. Likewise, free-range egg producers have no common standard on what the term means.0
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Free range, but only when you know the source (aka local farmers.) Free range is one of those fun terms, all it means is they have access to the outdoors, doesn't specify what type of outdoors, doesn't specify how long, or how often. A chicken could be kept in a cage with a small gravel yard to occasionally leave the cage and walk around in, and it can be marketed as "free range" in the US.
This!0 -
I'm a backyard chicken enthusiast as well. So much healthier and you know they are treated humanely.
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http://www.motherearthnews.com/eggs.aspx0 -
I would buy free range if I could find it in the grocery store. However, I'm more concerned with if the chicken is hormone-free and has had a good diet and the resulting meat is minimally processed (if at all).0
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Free range but I wish I had my own chickens instead.
^^^ yes! We have the room for it. My husband doesn't want them, but slowly making progress with him on it.0 -
Free range, always. Not only do I feel that it is a better health option for myself, and the hard working hens, they also taste much much better.0
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Faux.
I don't eat eggs, they are filed under foods that creep me out0
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