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barn egg in British English (bɑːn ɛɡ) nounan egg laid by a chicken that is allowed to move freely within a barn I will not buy barn eggs from any company that also sells cage eggs. Examples of 'barn egg' in a sentencebarn egg Now that barn eggs are being produced in the way they are, it's a barn egg every time for me and the family.Many of us have switched to so-called barn eggs.After that period they would have to be labelled as 'barn eggs'.For battery caged eggs, this is number 3, for barn eggs 2, for free-range 1 and for organic 0.People bought more than 2 billion free-range, organic and barn eggs in 2005, up from 1.64 billion in 2002.Many of its suppliers are expected to switch to 'barn eggs', which are from hens that are not allowed outside but roam inside sheds.She said that retailers should be required to state on boxes of barn eggs that they came from hens that were never allowed outside. |