Check out the fancy eggs in the store now

[speedy2020]

I bought 1 dozen fertilized free range egg from Whole Food and the york has the same light yellow color as white egg from store. I think the term free rang is a gimmick.

 

[PepsNick]

PUBLIX? Wow. I was at a Farmer's Market type store and they were $7.

 

[feathersnuggles]

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I'm just guessing here, but with only natural daylight available to them, chickens will only forage during daylight hours, and automatically stop foraging to seek refuge at sunset. So, I don't think there's any reason to believe they aren't free ranged when the coop is shut at night and opened in the a.m. -- provided they have adequate range and forage when they are free.

 

[gritsar]

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I'm just guessing here, but with only natural daylight available to them, chickens will only forage during daylight hours, and automatically stop foraging to seek refuge at sunset. So, I don't think there's any reason to believe they aren't free ranged when the coop is shut at night and opened in the a.m. -- provided they have adequate range and forage when they are free.

I agree. I consider my chickens free ranged in that I open the coop doors in the morning and shut them at night after they have gone to roost. During the day they are free to wander wherever they will on 80 acres.

 

[elizabethbinary]

I had to take some classes for my nutrition studies that focused on learning all about the various definitions of things regarding food. Cage Free/Free Range/Organic - all have these little 'twists' or 'loopholes' that the farmer can get away with to call it that. The organic ones aren't even organic - they simply have to feed the hen a certain % of organic grain per day. They can feed it anything else - styrofoam if they wanted - and they could still label it such as long as they keep that % and still get 'organic' eggs. Cage free is just sad and free range is pretty much the same words with a different label.

I know the USDA is even laxer than they are here, too. But labelling has always had shaky legal ground.

I love my chickens and their delicious eggs. They're not labelled anything - but I can see and taste the difference. And instead of $7 for 10 I pay my hens a flat $4 a dozen (yeah I pay them, what?! helps me save money for their food

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[maizey]

just goes to show you that home made is better in most cases, regardless of what it is.

 

[7L Farm]

Guess, I need to go up . I'm at $ 3.00 a dozen now.I live in the country & doubt these folks will pay anymore. Their already balking at three. They sound like my chickens when I tell em three bucks. Balk balk

 

[janinepeters]

On the rare occasion when I need more eggs than my chickens are producing, and I cannot get them at another small local farm, I do buy that brand pictured in the initial post. No, the chickens do not have anywhere near as good a life as mine do, but they are FAR better off than battery hens! I do whatever I have to do, to avoid supporting factory farms with my dollars.

 

[maizey]

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