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free range chickens are free to run around outside, and have lots of space and grass to be as natural as possible battery chickens are kept in barns of thousands, and can hardly move because of the other animals. they are unhealthy and lots die due to the poor conditions. free range is normally more expensive to buy, but is better for the chickens

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Free range chickens spend more time walking around doing their natural behaviours, instead of sitting still and growing/laying eggs. So they're not able to put as much of their energy into growth.

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Free range chickens are kept with lots of area and freedom to move and live naturally. Battery chickens are kept in tiny cages their whole lives, with artificial light to make them lay more eggs and live very unnaturally. Battery chickens are better for making money but free-range is better for the chickens themselves, although they are more susceptible to disease, injury, and predation.

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There are more costs involved to the farmers who raise free range hens.

The reason there are such things as battery farms is because you can produce more eggs for less cost, thus passing that savings on to consumers. This does not benefit the hens.

Hens raised free range are subject to more disease and predators. Stock losses are costly and that is reflected in the final price of free range eggs. Free range hens also involve more work to a farmer because the eggs and birds are not always where you expect them to be. Valuable time is spend looking for and retrieving the eggs.

Note: There is a difference between free range and cage free hens. Cage free birds are those enclosed within a large structure (barn) and free to roam around within the building. They are given food and water but cannot forage for themselves. Free range birds are not confined to a single defined space, they are given food and water but are also free to forage for greens, bugs and insects around the farm yard.

Free range hens also need lots of land to rome that can be expensive where as caged hens can be kept in a space the same size as A4 paper. Caged hens are fed lots of drugs that make them produce lots more eggs (some too large for them to lay) that brings the cost down.Normally with free range eggs the hens are the main priority where as with caged hens the price of the eggs is the main concern.

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Cage free means they are not kept in a cage. This does not really mean that they are allowed to have any space though. Cage free chickens are often still kept in cramped conditions inside of factory buildings. They are just on the floor instead of in a cage.

Free range means that the chickens are actually allowed outside access. There are not really any regulations in place to say how much outside access they have to have in order to be called free range though. In some cases, the chickens have much better conditions. Other times, they aren't much better than cage free. You would need to research the individual company to see what their conditions actually are.

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The term "Cage Free" means that the battery hens are not kept in cages, but rather are all together on a factory floor.

Free Range, in the true definition, means the chickens range freely outoors and enrich their diet by foraging for food, as their ancestors did in the wild.
However, commercial egg companies are not required to make their chickens actually free range in order to call eggs "free range". They are simply required to have a VERY small door and a enclosed, grassy run - which can mean a tiny area of outdoor space for hundreds or thousands of birds. Moreover, these birds have never even seen the outdoors, and will not venture outside because it terrifies them. Said eggs are not truly free range, as the birds do not forage or roam freely.

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ones laid in a cage, ones laid in a open house.

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Battery chickens have been bred to be able to survive in small Cages, and have not been allowed to exercise. Free range chickens are allowed to roam and walk.

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Free range chickens spend energy doing natural behaviours instead of sitting still and growing, so it takes more time and food to raise them, which makes them more expensive.

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A battery hen is kept in a cage, barely wide enough for it to turn around in. Free range hens have all the space they need, are given the best quality care and food.

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