free range
Not cooped up
Free range describes livestock, especially poultry, raised with access to outdoor space rather than confined to cages or indoor pens: free-range eggs, free-range chicken.
The term implies more humane conditions, though standards vary widely.
Figuratively, free range suggests unrestricted movement or scope: The kids had free range of the backyard.
- poultryBirds raised for food
- pasture raisedFarmed on grassland
- unenclosedNot surrounded or contained
- beakHorny avian mouthpart
- roamTravel without fixed purpose
egg · grazing · aviculture · humane · nest · pasture · open-air · yarding · ethical · outdoor · animal welfare · animal rights · unconstrained · heritage breed · small farms · sustainable farming · liberty · pecking
- animal husbandrybreeding, sire, dam, stud, captive breeding
- eco-farmingorganic farming, sustainable farming, sustainable agriculture, cover crops, crop rotation
- egg productionorganic, battery cage, barn raised, pasture raised, conventional
- ethical shoppingfair trade coffee, ethical sourcing, sustainable sourcing, ethical shopping, buy local
- freeliberated, released, unchained, unshackled, unbound
- livestock farmingcattle ranch, dairy farm, stud farm, sheep shearing, pig farm
free rangecaged
Confined by bars
confined · penned · battery cage · cooped · feedlot
free rangeconfined
Kept within bounds
restricted · caged · constrained · limited · bounded
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