Hope your day went this well.

[pepperj]

That's nuts -- that's nearly 50 cents per egg! I haven't bought eggs in ages (chickens provide plenty), though the cost of feed has certainly gone up.


Unfortunately, "cage free" doesn't necessarily mean anything. They can be in a giant barn and not be in a cage and carry the "cage free" label even if they never saw a ray of sunshine in their life. So you're right, no sense paying more.

True free range is the way to go -- where the chickens had sunshine and access to natural diet and exercise. They may not know the difference, but the eggs do. But yeah, expensive at the store.

Here's a couple of photos I took a while back. Grocery store "cage free" egg on the left, one of our home-raised free range eggs on the right. The grocery store egg seems downright anemic by comparison. (And all that runny white in the pan is from the grocery store egg. )
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There's nothing like having a fresh egg.

The terms that the consumer reads is quite disappointing. Cage free only means they're not in a cage. Free run doesn't mean too much really. Running around in a building with thousands of others. As long as the chicken space meets the requirements. We'll say 15,000 sq. ft. They can have 10,000 chickens.
Organic chickens do have a better requirements, feed, and generally smaller producers.

 

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