DES MOINES, Iowa — Is it OK for free-range chickens to not range freely? That’s a question free-range egg producers have been pondering lately as they try to be open about their product while ...

About 6 million hens, or 2 percent of national flock, are free-range and about 4.2 million hens, or 1.3 percent of U.S. egg production, are from pasture-raised chickens.

Cage-free chickens walk in a fenced pasture Oct. 21, 2015, at an organic farm near Waukon, Iowa. Some farmers are wondering if it's OK that eggs sold as free-range come from chickens being kept ...

Is it OK for free-range chickens to not range freely?That’s a question free-range egg producers have been pondering lately as they try to be open about their product while also protecting ...

About 6 million hens, or 2% of national flock, are free-range and about 4.2 million hens, or 1.3% of U.S. egg production, are from pasture-raised chickens. Chickens are categorized as free-range ...

That’s a question free-range egg producers have been pondering lately as they try to be open about their product while also protecting chickens from a highly infectious bird flu that has killed ...