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Barnyard Buddies:  Eggs....does cage free necessarily mean organic?  |
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Phils Ann
True Blue Farmgirl
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Ann
Parsonsburg
Maryland
USA
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 Posted - Feb 19 2007 : 09:12:09 AM
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Shannon, I do buy organic and pastured eggs at the health food store, for $2.99 a dozen. These eggs are from a co-op which sells them for about $2.50/dozen per 12 dozen eggs. The yolks are deep orange, and they taste great. I hope to have day-olds here at the end of April, and have our own eggs by autumn, but meanwhile, the organics from the health food store are worth every cent.
Ann
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MullersLaneFarm
True Blue Farmgirl
596 Posts
Rock Falls
IL
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Posted - Feb 20 2007 : 2:35:50 PM
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Originally posted by willowtreecreek
Persephone is right ofter cage free or free range only refers to the fact that a chicken has ACCESS to the outdoors.
Not quite.
Cage free birds generally have free run in the barn or in larger cages in a barn. We have an organic, cage free operation close to us that is horrible!! Beak to butt chickens, and plenty of cannibalism.
Pastured Poultry are birds that have access to the outdoors but are kept in caged areas that are portable from place to place in the pasture (generally behind your rotation of larger animals)
Free Range Poultry is just that. The birds of free range of the farm.
Cyndi
Muller's Lane Farm http://www.mullerslanefarm.com
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Annab
True Blue Farmgirl
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Anna
Seagrove
NC
USA
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Posted - Feb 24 2007 : 4:51:56 PM
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| Here's more "food for thought" too. A frined in the know once told me that all eggs are at minimum, 6 weeks or older by the time we buy them at the store. Not sure if this also applies to the free range organic ones too, so the more important issue might be freshness. All natural is one thing and freshness is totally another! I tout my hen's eggs as coming from free ranging hens (out when we are home and able to forage on their own), and hormome-free. Our flock is small enough we don't need to pump them full of antibiotics and "extras" that the big commercial guys have to use. So in a sense, their food 50% of the time IS indeed organic and all natural. When we aren't home, the flock stays safely penned up in a 12x12 enclosure where they can walk around and eat bagged grain from the feed store. Either way, the more expensive eggs might make you feel better knowing the hens wern't in those tiny, cramped, dirty cages. |
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