Great thinking!
But if you will delve deeper into it, you will soon discover some form of cruelty in these practices too. Just take into account the life-cycle and population growth rate for keeping all male chicks & retired layers for their whole 7 years of life time, the free-range farm will soon become unsustainable at one point.
That's how cow-protection brigade thinks in India too. But it became unsustainable at one point and India became the world's leading beef exporter despite ban on cow slaughter! Vegans' stance is "any animal use is animal abuse" and I found it to be very true.
That's right. Animal use is connected to animal abuse. I wonder I can live with sheep in the future and ask them to share their hair for knitting and leftover milk for me to make cheese ;)
I don't think anybody will share / give you voluntarily. Probably,with development of your close relationship and bonding with those guys, you will look for some better alternatives instead 🤓.