For the freedom of the hens and for happier eggs
By Pitstop
@pitstop (15416)
Australia
July 8, 2025 8:10am CST
Are you a fan of eggs? I'm pretty happy with eggs as part of a meal, but I've never thought much about the hens.
Apparently the eggs are better if the hens are given more space to roam around and be happy I don't know if it's true, but I do feel happier when I see this on the pack of eggs - facts about how happy the hens are
Do you buy free range eggs or the usual caged hen eggs?
5 people like this
5 responses
@DaddyEvil (160026)
• United States
8 Jul
Growing up on the farm, our chickens were truly free-range. They came and went anywhere on the farm they pleased and laid eggs in nests they built where ever they chose.
As @wolfgirl569 says, free-range doesn't really mean that in the US egg industry.
I buy eggs from the store so they're really from caged chickens, no matter what the packaging claims.
2 people like this
@DaddyEvil (160026)
• United States
8 Jul
@pitstop Not in the US... There are legal definitions of "free-range" that the chicken owners must abide by and letting the chickens actually out of the cages isn't one of them.
https://www.newrootsinstitute.org/articles/free-range-chicken
1 person likes this
@porwest (109343)
• United States
9 Jul
I go with Bill Engvall, a famous comedian, who said, "Chickens are not wild. I studied history very well and never once remember ever reading about herds of chickens roaming the lands." lol. It's a chicken. I'll take the cooped up variety and pay less and I guarantee if you put a free range egg on someone's plate and cooped up egg on someone's plate and have them tell you which one is which when they eat it...
They'd have no idea because both will taste like...
An egg.
Besides, there's really no such thing as a free range chicken anyway. lol
1 person likes this
@porwest (109343)
• United States
10 Jul
@pitstop I think a lot of this stuff comes down to hooey when someone says "this tastes better than that does because..." I remember Penn and Teller did a show called Bullsh*t where they went to a fancy New York restaurant and offered people various "premium" waters. This one's from the mountains of Colorado, this one is from the Swiss Alps and so on so forth. The people drank the water and described some pretty funny things they could taste associated with where it came from. They were asked if they'd be willing to pay a premium price for the water and most said yes. Then they were informed that all of the water had been run through a garden hose attached to the utility sink in the kitchen. So, it was New York City tap water run through a garden hose. lol
1 person likes this
@wolfgirl569 (123616)
• Marion, Ohio
8 Jul
My eggs come from my hens. Here free range often means they are let outside for a set amount of time. Then back to the cage
1 person likes this
@Deepizzaguy (115091)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
8 Jul
I but caged hen eggs at the market.
1 person likes this
@LindaOHio (203390)
• United States
8 Jul
I don't buy eggs that often; but when I do they are regular eggs.
