you posted: “They might need refrigeration if you lived in a warmer climate.”
ahaha - I might also need refrigeration in a warmer climate.
Our eggs are ‘unwashed’ - and retain nature’s protection. I only get a doz. at a time- unless some extra cooking is in the the offing.
One of the greatest tips for cooking/baking: USE ROOM TEMP ingredients - like milk and eggs....This is my secret - one of - to making the best Yorkshire Pudding and/or Dutch Baby Pancakes. (I got my Yorkshire Pudding recipe form and English Lady friend - who died at 103 in 1999 (born in 1896, remembered Queen Victoria’s funeral cortege!) - who’s recipe went back at least to her great grandmother - so back to the early 1800’s and who knows how much further back - and they didn’t use refrigeration back then-nor for thousands of years back...)
If I think perhaps I have a egg that may have turned, I use the simple water trick.
I so want my own laying hens - and some guinea fowl to eat ticks! - but my dog is a ‘small game” hunter. They wouldn’t fare well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxkxEMXQl_I
Being unwashed might make you think that they won’t rot. When I was a child we had chickens and ducks. The ducks started laying eggs under the porch. I was the only one small enough to go under there and get them. I waited too long I guess, and they exploded all over me. Rotten eggs are nasty.
Yes you would need refrigeration here, I sure do!