The typical life of an egg-laying chicken is beginning to change dramatically. Ninety percent of the eggs we eat come from chickens that live in long lines of wire cages, about eight birds to a cage.

Chickens that are "pasture-raised" or "free range" will typically lay eggs with a darker, more orange-colored yolk, Steele said, "because their diet consists mainly of grasses, weeds and other ...

Eggs at a grocery story in Orlando, Jan. 10. Photo: John Raoux/Associated Press Your editorial “ The Price of Cage-Free Eggs in California ” (Feb. 7) isn’t all it was cracked up to be.

With chickens able to live more naturally, eggs can only be more nutritious and delicious. Passing House Bill 20-1343 in 2020, which requires cage-free housing with specific enclosure measurements ...

ALBANY, Minn. (AP) — As the sun rises at Emmerich’s Produce and Pumpkins farm, about 100 chickens exit their coop. They are free to roam ...

When they began to lay eggs, I was elated. I had gotten the hens to keep me company, but nothing tastes better than an egg from a free-range chicken you know personally.

August 12, 2019 at 5:23 pm PDT. Gov. Kate Brown today signed a bill freeing egg-laying hens from cages. Senate Bill 1019 requires commercial farms with 3,000 or more chickens to go cage-free and ...

The chain, which serves more than 400 million eggs a year, says its U.S. restaurants will serve cage-free eggs by 2026, with the announcement promoted in a video via Denny's social channels and ...

Activists Want McDonalds To Use Cage-Free Chickens, Eggs. November 20, 2011 / 11:22 ... The group also wants McDonald's to demand a cage-free atmosphere in which chickens can nest and can have ...

Why free-range eggs 'win' over free-range chickens. By Liam Mannix. January 18, 2018 — 4.05pm. Save. Log in, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for later.

More than 20 million egg-laying chickens in the US were killed by the bird flu in the last four months of 2024. Paul Martinka “Once you eat a chicken egg fresh from the chicken, you can’t go back.

ST. LOUIS -- Panera Bread on Thursday became the latest restaurant chain to announce plans to stop using eggs from cage-confined hens. The suburban St. Louis-based chain said it will use 100 ...