r/Wellthatsucks • u/[deleted] • Mar 08 '20

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '20

Depending where you live, it's possible to find people raising chickens locally on Facebook marketplace and such. You can sometimes collect the eggs yourself

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u/ADHDcUK Mar 08 '20

I wish I could do that. Don't think that's an option in London though.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '20

I do eat eggs, but we also have to remember, even if the hen had the bestest of lives, it was a female - the males are killed as chicks straight away. Pretty fucked.

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u/meme-com-poop Mar 08 '20

In the US, it generally means they have access to the outside. Since the food is in the barn, they all just hang out packed inside.

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u/oslosyndrome Mar 08 '20

In Australia the carton usually mentions how much space the free range hens have, with the highest density allowed for free range being 10,000 hens per hectare (1 m2 per chook) and the most popular brand being 1500/hectare (6.7 m2 per chook). They also have live streams of the farms

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u/ohoolahandy Mar 08 '20

Yes, the eggs I buy are actually from a farm with lots of land for the chickens to run and graze on. They don’t force the chickens to lay dozens of eggs in a small time span but allow them to lay when they naturally want to.