Random question about eggs 🥚

They're mostly buzz words and are just used to describe the difference between the way chickens are kept. But when I look it up online there's no real clear info on what each term truly implies in terms of the chickens and their upkeep.

They’re all quite honestly a joke but pasture raised is your best bet. Pasture raised have more room (at least 108 square feet) to actually live happily, while free range can mean as little as 2 square feet per chicken. My honest opinion is to find local home raised or farm raised eggs where they don’t use antibiotics or other harmful treatments. I’d sell mine to you but I’m in South Carolina😆

Don’t trust anything that says organic. There’s no true regulation and many are scamming consumers just to charge more. Brown and white are from different breeds, so don’t fall for that either.

And I’m about to blow your mind with home grown, antibiotic free egg facts: they last like a month out of the refrigerator unwashed. You wash them when you’re ready to use them (Amazon has a cool little egg washer). Or you can refrigerate them (still unwashed) to last around 3 months. They’re so much runnier, deep yellow and rich that store eggs make me want to barf now with no flavor and who knows what else injected into them.

Find someone local to sell you some home-grown chicken eggs. Failing that, pasture-raised are the best bet. Everything else is varying degrees of horrific.

free range is best

@Sarah love your comment section! Amazing info 🥰 thank you for sharing this

Free range is legally "no more than 10,000 hens per hectare" or something in Australia, but, our options are Caged, Barn Laid (so crammed in a barn but not a cage) or free range. So I buy free range. You can research individual suppliers, some are a lot kinder to the hens.