Free-range eggs
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Free-range eggs are eggs from poultry which have been farmed without intensive factory farming methods. 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, not all countries have legal standards defining what free range means. For example, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has no standards and allows egg producers to freely label any egg as a free range egg. Many producers will label their eggs as cage-free in addition to or instead of free range. In other countries such as Australia strict regulations govern what can qualify to be called free range and those eggs which do not qualify must state that they are cage or barn laid on their container.
Free range eggs may have more of an orange colour to their yolks due to the abundance of greens and insects in the diet of the birds.
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