Hi fellow seniors, do you buy free range or caged hens eggs?

I buy free range eggs, I don't buy eggs where I know the hens were in prison.

Free range eggs are the only ones I buy, organic when I can.

I will not buy eggs from caged hens even if the cages are slightly larger now.

If I could I would have a few chickens in the back garden, sadly that's not allowed. If it were allowed that would be the only time I would buy caged hens - to give them a new lease of life. Apparently rescued battery and barn hens quickly adapt to a normal life.

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Before they built a big city around me, I had chickens. The eggs from hens that wandered about the field eating insects and whatever they could forage were exponentially better than when we had to cage them. Even those, were better than "egg factory" eggs. I will away buy free range, if I can find them.

I used to buy them from a farmer and the hens roamed free. Now I get them at the grocery store and they say they are free-range, but I cannot prove that they really are. Most of the hens here are, though. I love deviled eggs.

i bought free range ones when I lived in the US but now so far I haven't seen any for sale in the big stores in Budapest.

Perhaps they have them and I am just not able to read the carton.

Today we bought some by the piece from the farmers market.

Have done that a few times now, bring your own egg carton and have it filled up.

Not sure if they are free range eggs or not, I should have my husband ask next time for a reference.

All the eggs I have seen over here are brown, haven't seen any white eggs yet anywhere.

I think my husband still buys the regular eggs to save money. It was only recently

I saw a program that featured the free range chickens. They are supposed to

produce either eggs with no cholesterol, or low cholesterol. And this is the benefit

of a chicken who's free to wander, and not confined in a coop or cage. It's the ex-

ercise that prevents the cholesterol to form. I found that very interesting.

I buy free range. We have a local farm shop where we have to take our own boxes to get our eggs. And the two farms that supply the shop are not far out of the town. One has just got some Scots Greys as well as Rhode Island Reds.

Beulah

free range anything is as big a scam as bottled water , a hen only has to be outside an hour a day to be considered " free range" i used to keep chickens for eggs and to eat i raised cornish cross for fryers and Rhode island reds for eggs i let them run loose in the chicken yard so they could eat bugs plant sprouts etc i put ground up freshwater clam shells in their food the eggs were so fresh that the yellow was almost orange and the white was so thick it almost kept a round shape when you cracked them open and they fried so light and airy i have yet to see a "free range " egg come close to that

Free range.

Over 30 years ago I had to visit a farm where there was a chicken battery shed - firstly the smell was horrendous and secondly the conditions in which the hens were kept were simply awful. I could never go back to battery eggs - far less battery chicken as meat.

Both. We get free range from my brother-in-law's neighbors when we can. They go fast. If we get there too late, we buy from Kroger. There is a noticeable difference between the two. I'd like to have a few hens of my own.