Free range chickens have been a popular marketing tool. Technically, free range chickens must have access to the outdoors for at least 51 percent of their lives, but the USDA, which approves each manufacturer's "free range" claim on a case-by-case basis, does not strictly define "outdoors." The term could mean anything from idyllic open acreage to a puny pen.
I'm sure that there are some manufactures that really to let their chickens roam free, but many do not. Just having a little door to be able to go outside can be termed a free range chicken, it may never see outdoors.
I still like the idea of free range and no antibiotic chickens. We need to do some homework on the company we buy our chickens from.
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