Are you really buying free range eggs?

Sunnyday

Thanks for the codes i had no idea, just checked the fridge and mne say 1 and also have free range stamped on them.
I have wondered about eggs previously as they sometimes don`t seem as good as they should be.
I will be checking in the shops from now on.
SD

noonesperfect

Well hopefully we shall have the wool pulled over our eyes no more.

(I have to say I'm glad I'm not the only one who fell victim to farm shops' profiteering).

This particular farm decided to diversify (if that's the right word) as they couldn't make enough money out of pigs - obviously thought they'd make money out of humans instead :mad: .

paddy's_mum

Can I urge all of you who were 'caught' by this to have a word with the supplier, embarassing though that might be. Until the sellers realise that savvy shoppers know what they are about the practice will continue. A farm shop owner may himself not be fully aware. You just might be doing some hens somewhere a real kindness.

anniestar

I am fuming:mad: Have been buying "organic" "free range" eggs from my local market. Have been very pleased with the quality of the eggs and the easy avaibility of the eggs(our local ASDA ofetn is out of stock of organic eggs) Saw this thread, smugly went to check-3:mad: :mad: :mad: . NOT HAPPY. Feel betrayed, gulty and as mad as hell. Job for trading standards me thinks. Thing is that I have been told the eggs are organic and free range every time I buy. I always ask just to be on the safe side and as the prices vary os much. I am SOOOOOOOOO MAD. Poor hens.

peb

This is somehting I have never realised - I try to buy local and freerange. One point for me is that I purposefully don't buy organic - if an egg is organic then surely the food the hen eats is controlled. for example I would not expect a worm to be organic! As other posters have stated where possible I buy from a local supplier where you can see the hens roaming about.

pigpen

The eggs my mother gets are as organic and freerange as you can get!!!

She emptied one into her jug to find a half formed chick!! *barf*

She gets hers from my cousins hens.. he has about 10 now I think.. and DD1 and I are TRYING to persuade hubby to 'allow' us a bit of garden to keep them in.. the garden is totally secure.. only treemice can get in!! so they'd be really safe.. he is concerned about poop though!

Bongedone

peb wrote: »

This is somehting I have never realised - I try to buy local and freerange. One point for me is that I purposefully don't buy organic - if an egg is organic then surely the food the hen eats is controlled. for example I would not expect a worm to be organic! As other posters have stated where possible I buy from a local supplier where you can see the hens roaming about.

You have it wrong there. A free range chicken can be fed genetically altered food, de-beaked and plenty of other things. Organic chickens cannot.

http://www.goosemoor.info/free_range1.htm

dan1979

peb wrote: »

One point for me is that I purposefully don't buy organic - if an egg is organic then surely the food the hen eats is controlled. for example I would not expect a worm to be organic! As other posters have stated where possible I buy from a local supplier where you can see the hens roaming about.

The land on which it's raised can't have had any chemicals used it on for x amount of years so the worm probably sort of be organic.

Mrs_Miggins_2

Just wanted to say that as organic hens aren't treated for red spider mite, they tend to be culled sooner than other free range hens - this only applies to commercial suppliers though - our hens have never suffered from this, as regular dust bathing seems to do the trick. Just need to worry about the foxes round here :mad:

MrsAnnie

I bought some free range eggs from a market stall on the road side this morning. The big sign said 'FREE RANGE EGGS' and the carton was stamped free range. But when I got them home I noticed that the individual eggs were not stamped. They were also selling barn eggs as well.

Should the eggs have the UK stamp on each one?