Just so you know, free range is an industry term that doesn’t mean anything:
> The U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) requires that chickens raised for their meat have access to the outside in order to receive the free-range certification.[6] There is no requirement for access to pasture, and there may be access to only dirt or gravel . Free-range chicken eggs, however, have no legal definition in the United States. Likewise, free-range egg producers have no common standard on what the term means.
From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_range . Basically “free range“ just means that the place where the chickens are housed has a door on it and that the chickens can use this door themselves. That’s it. There could be a fenced-in cement pad on the other side of the door, or it could be an open field, the standard doesn’t care.
> The U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) requires that chickens raised for their meat have access to the outside in order to receive the free-range certification.[6] There is no requirement for access to pasture, and there may be access to only dirt or gravel . Free-range chicken eggs, however, have no legal definition in the United States. Likewise, free-range egg producers have no common standard on what the term means.
From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_range . Basically “free range“ just means that the place where the chickens are housed has a door on it and that the chickens can use this door themselves. That’s it. There could be a fenced-in cement pad on the other side of the door, or it could be an open field, the standard doesn’t care.