Free-range egg
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Free-range eggs are birds' eggs generally intended for human consumption which have been farmed without intensive factory farming methods. The birds are usually hens, though they may be ducks or geese. Under the usual interpretation, the main difference between free range and factory farmed eggs is that the birds are permitted to roam freely within the farmyard and only kept in sheds or henhouses at night. However, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has not instituted a legal standard on what free range eggs actually mean, thus allowing egg producers to freely label, in theory, any egg as free range eggs.
One odd aspect of free range eggs is that when free range hens lay, they instinctively hide their eggs. So harvesting free range eggs is a somewhat frustrating business, like an Easter egg hunt.
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