Although the term "free-range" is not legally defined in Canada, it generally means birds have some access to the outdoors. Uncaged chickens can include free-range and non-free-range.

2 Cornish game hens (free range) Some good, non-iodized salt Method: Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. In a small pan, toast the coriander, fennel, anise and fenugreek seeds over medium heat.

Meat from chickens which have never been outside is being sold as 'free range' as the birds are killed at eight weeks old but free range means they can be inside for maximum of 12 weeks and get ...

Spring Prairie Farm will be land of the free (range) for chickens, turkeys Charles Ochsner has always wanted to be able to make a living off his family's 124-acre spread in rural Glyndon. Now he's ...

Free-range and organic chickens from commercial flocks can go outside again after B.C.'s chief veterinarian lifted an order, in place for the past nine months, intended to reduce avian influenza ...

Pictured, the chickens roaming free in the spring. - Jennifer Westendorp/Metroland Backyard chickens may be coming home to roost, but they won’t be roosting in Cobourg any time soon. Cobourg town ...

Roam free (Picture: Ezra Bailey) Last November, hens had to stay indoors due to cases of bird flu – meaning free-range eggs disappeared from supermarkets. Chickens had to stay inside to prevent ...

Most free-range chickens are housed in massive barns. They have access to the outdoors some of the time, but that doesn’t mean they leave the barn.

But partly because of Canada's harsh winters, which make it difficult to let chickens outside, only a small percentage of chickens raised here are truly free-range. But nearly all chickens being ...