date:Sep 03, 2018
around their building and have access to the outdoors during their production cycle.
But access doesn't guarantee time outside. There's no regulation that says getting to that door has to be easy, how big the outdoor area must be, or that a chicken ever has to get outside. A chicken in a crowded henhouse may never get to the door, and if it manages to go through it, may find there's no room for it in the small area outside.
That's why it's so hard to determine if free-range eggs at the store