I’m in southwest Colorado and I paid $4.68 for a dozen eggs last week. The organic eggs were $7.70/dozen. I didn’t look for the price on cage free eggs.
Our best friends raise chickens and ducks. I’ve had one duck egg a day for breakfast this week. One had two yolks. The eggs, chicken or duck, as so much better. I haven’t purchased grocery store eggs for at least two years. Our friend won’t let us pay for them but I keep an eye out and around there they are costing from 4 to 7 dollars a dozen. The duck eggs are more expensive. She keeps them in a large pen, brings them in in the evening, feeds them high grade feed, mealy worms, and sometimes left over veggies and friends. They are such happy chickens. Oh, and the best part for the chickens and ducks? Our friends are vegetarians. So they do cull the extra males when they’re hatching some but freeze those for their dogs.