Free range farm eggs are better though by miles.
AND, you don’t need to refrigerate them!
You are correct ... no need to refrigerate them until you wash them.
True... You are better off leaving them in the fridge to dehydrate a week or two if you are going to hard boil them though. Peeling farm fresh hard boiled eggs is a nightmare. There are some chemistry and physics tricks you can use but just the time in the fridge and they are easy peasy to peel and no funny business pulling out of old text books. Quality is hardly effected and the peeled eggs are whole. They dont dehydrate as fast un-refrigerated.