If they are in barns, they are not free range. They are Cage Free. which means they live in crowded barns with wooden box things, jump down to eat on the floor, go up to their box nest to lay eggs. Horrible animal cruelty and substandard eggs. I’d never eat them.
Free range means they can run around on acres of land and cage free means they have small movable houses, can run around and peck grass and grubs and whatever natural things they eat, spend the night in nice safe houses. Nice eggs, available everywhere.
I hate to see animal cruelty no matter what the species.
Yes, it didn’t sound “free range” to me. Millions of chickens, that’s some range. Imagine the predators flocking there! Worse shrinkage than a Walmart in Detroit.