Welcome to FreeRangeEggs.co.uk
Welcome to FreeRangeEggs.co.uk the only site dedicated to Free Range Eggs in the UK! We hope you find our site interesting, and if you have any comments or suggestions please let us know.
What are free range eggs?
Hens that produces free range eggs must have had, during at least half their lifetime, continuous daytime access to open-air runs.
When they are housed indoors a total of 12 birds per square metre is allowed. The maximum stock size for free-range hens is 2,500 birds per hectare.
About 70 per cent of the 29 million egg-laying chickens in the UK are housed in battery cages.
Research carried out by the RSPCA (which is campaigning for all cage systems to be banned) says that chickens prevented from behaving naturally and being able to scratch, dust bathe and forage for food and suffer stress as well as health problems such as osteoporosis. this is a clear reason to buy Free Range Eggs.
Free Range Eggs
I travel about ?6/8 miles in Somerset to access FREggs. How long is it safe to store these unmarked eggs? They would be stored in my “outside” cupboard and I use about 1 doz a week – more if I am baking.
If I bought in advance for one months supply? would they keep. Costs me a lot in petrol to go too often.
Thanks – Kathleen 01278 452680
can anyone tell me where i can buy free range eggs near ls13 it makes me happy to know the hens are happy and content thankyou marlene
I think more people should be buying free range and organic eggs. Yes, they my be more expensive, but then altleast you know how the birds that produced the eggs were treated. It’s not right to keep birds (or indeed anything) in battery cages.