I have my own chickens, they are fed a natural food(can't afford organic chicken food), no hormones, or anti-biotics in it. Also, I put CS in their water. They are really free range, running all over the place most of the time. They go into their coops at sundown, and are locked up for the night, for their own protection. The yolks are almost red. To have your own chickens is the way to go, if you like good eggs. One thing I've noticed the chickens become very stressed in the cages, when I get up late. So I would think if they are not free range the chickens would be stressed, rather or not this would affect the eggs I don't really know. Buy both and which ever yolk is more orange would be the better egg.

sound good imputs
I would hear Judy Lindberg McFarland, who came from a family of early herbalist and
natural folks using supplements, eating eggs.
She talked about Fertile Eggs as being the pick of the crop.
Judy "on TBN" would say the fertile eggs were eggs that if a chicken sat on them
the eggs would hatch.
Judy said the other eggs would not put out an egg that would hatch a chick.

I would throw my lint from the dryer for the mama birds to make their nest with.
I think the egg shells were good to give to mamas to make their eggs stronger (calcium).
I remember gramps would give food that made his chickens put out yellow yolks
and sometimes twin yolks.

would you like to try green eggs? then go with those powdered government issue eggs. they used to be popular in the 70's. they only turned green if you over cook them. we use to mix the powder with milk or water and fry up. they didn't taste so bad and they have a long shelf life. try those.

I would suggest free range biodynamic - especially farms which do not use yolk dye. This will usually say so on the packet.

Hey, Harmonic, if I had to choose, I would choose the Organic myself, ASSUMING you mean commercial free range eggs. If you mean chickens raised in a small farm situation, it's more of a toss-up.

Here's my thinking. "Free range" is not a very precise term. It means the chickens aren't housed in cages. It does not mean the chickens are living like they would on a small family farm. I.e., if you're running an egg farm and you've got hundreds of chickens in an enclosure, they're not going to be supplementing their feed with any forage at all. So a very high percentage of their diet will be commercial feed which is likely laced with all kinds of junk -- who knows what.

Organic eggs might come from chickens that are more confined but at least those chickens will be ingesting clean food.

If your free range eggs are coming from a small farm type situation, that might be a different story. In that case some portion of the chickens' diet will be insects, worms, etc. that they forage. You'll be able to tell the difference; the yolks will be much much darker (orange) and the eggs will have a eggier flavor. And of course you'll be avoiding whatever issues might be passed on due to the emotional state of caged chickens.