Free-range eggs are kind of hard to explain. I mean, it’s convoluted. First off, free-range eggs can be chicken eggs or duck eggs or some other eggs on sale. Let’s take chicken eggs as an example.

Most free-range chickens are housed in massive barns. They have access to the outdoors some of the time, but that doesn’t mean they leave the barn.

Packages of Perdue Harvestland “free range” chicken sit on a refrigerated store shelf. Just because a package says “free range” doesn’t necessarily mean the chicken ever left the barn ...

Most free-range chickens are housed in massive barns. They have access to the outdoors some of the time, but that doesn’t mean they leave the barn.

Most free-range chickens are housed in massive barns. They have access to the outdoors some of the time, but that doesn’t mean they leave the barn.

Eggs that are labelled free range could actually come from a barn under new government plans in response to repeated avian flu outbreaks.

Free-range eggs will have to be reclassified as “barn eggs” from next Wednesday (1 February), when the 16-week grace period since birds were first compulsorily housed comes to an end.

Government scraps 'barn' label for free-range hens kept indoors. Aldi is among supermarkets that could see its eggs changed under plans . Close. William Mata 29 August 2024.

Richard Walker has been the target of sustained protests from the animal charity the Humane League, after Iceland dropped its ...

Free-range eggs laid in East Anglia must now be re-labelled as "barn eggs" because hens have spent so long indoors due to bird flu restrictions. The region has been at the epicentre of the UK's ...