{"id":776,"date":"2009-10-09T19:39:38","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T19:39:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-09T19:39:38","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T19:39:38","slug":"how-to-have-grass-fed-eggs-in-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plamondon.com\/wp\/how-to-have-grass-fed-eggs-in-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Have Grass-Fed Eggs in Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re in a part of the country where the grass goes away or is buried under snow in the winter, how can you achieve your goal of grass-fed eggs? And if it’s twenty below and a gale is blowing, are free-range eggs really a good idea?<\/p>\n

It’s easy to get hung up on definitions and take things too literally, but we ought to allow reality to intrude, at least a little bit. We don’t want our chickens going outside when it’s unhealthy for them to do so, and it would be stupid and irresponsible to do so just so we could cling to labels like “free-range” or “grass-fed.” Climate happens.<\/p>\n

We are blessed with a wealth of practical information about such things if we know where to look. Back before scientists figured out about vitamins, everyone knew that poultry needed green feed year-round. They just didn’t know why. So they worked out a variety of ways to keep green feed in the picture, regardless of weather.<\/p>\n

Some contenders were:<\/p>\n