Random white eggs

[mamalu]

Those are some big eggs. Where exactly did you find them?

Same spot where they lay all their eggs

 

[mamalu]

I've had the same experience, with a young Australorp, (brown egg-layer). This bird is a bit of a trickster, which is why she's named "Joker", I just never know what surprise I'll find in her nest box. She's my smallest hen, yet has laid eggs so large, that I've gone back over her to check her for prolapse..How does a hen this small, lay these huuuuge huge eggs?
And then there was the day she left a super-sized - white - egg. My guess is it's a double-yolked egg. I've put it into a lime solution, for use later this winter. There are no other chicken owners in my urban neighborhood, and my coop remains locked until I get home from work, each afternoon, no way could any other bird have visited. It's a mystery to me, why this happened, but it did, and only once, so far.

Thank you! Good to know I'm not the only one. Updates to follow.....

 

[3KillerBs]

Same spot where they lay all their eggs

Photos of your facility? We might spot a gap where something could get in that you have overlooked.

 

[Cyra]

Thank you! Good to know I'm not the only one. Updates to follow.....

For it being NY, a Goose would've made sense. But if they can't get into your pen then I have no idea. even if Double yokes can be lighter eggs, can they be the complete opposite color? 3 times all 2 days apart? Seems unlikely to me, then again, I don't have any other good ideas.

I don't know how chicken genetics work, and while I understand that extra large eggs may be lighter in color, I've never had a brown-egg-laying breed present me with a white, (not light-colored) egg before. Per Cackle Hatchery, where I received Joker from, she's an Australorp, but they did not say she was pure Australorp... maybe there's a white egg-laying cross in her back ground? Or maybe there's some distant Minorca ancestor? I found the huge, white egg amazing, but since it only happened once, I chalked it up to Joker having just started laying, as I did her skipping her daily egg, twice, & then presenting me with super-sized eggs.

 

[NatJ]

I don't know how chicken genetics work, and while I understand that extra large eggs may be lighter in color, I've never had a brown-egg-laying breed present me with a white, (not light-colored) egg before

In OP's picture, the big eggs look light but not completely white to me.
I have gotten almost-white eggs on occasion from chickens that normally lay brown eggs.
I think sometimes it's a glitch with the part of the chicken that is supposed to add the brown coating, but with OP finding three in a row there is clearly some kind of a pattern here.


I am really curious to know if the big eggs have single yolks or double yolks.

If they have two yolks, I am pretty sure they are being laid by one of OP's hens.

If they have one yolk per egg, I am pretty sure they are being laid by some different, bigger bird (who must get into the coop to do it, unless a person is putting the eggs in for some reason.)

 

[Artichoke Lover]

I’ve had brown layers lay white eggs before. I actually got one this week. It’s just a glitch in the system. However they’ve never been significantly larger than normal. And I’ve never gotten more than one or two out of 300 eggs. If those are double yolks it’s probably your hens. And probably one hen in particular. If not I’m inclined to agree someone is pranking you.

 

[Vicker]

Those eggs don't appear as white as a goose or duck egg. Unless the lighting is off, they look very light brown.

 

[Chapel Oak Farms]

If you can, maybe set up a camera outside the coop or watch at early sunrise to see what kind of visitors you have. Were the eggs on the coop floor or in nest boxes?

 

[Nija Chick]

Time for a trail cam that looks directly where you see the eggs appear, so to minimize activation with just any passing chicken.
you might be getting a wild duck, or more likely a Canadian goose, that likes the look of your run to raise her own babies.

 

[Saveria]

I get lighter eggs every now and again, too. I remember people saying that dark brown layers will get lighter as the season goes. I thought it was something like that, but really I get them randomly through the year. They are all super light brown, but one reccently looked just off white it was so white. Some are big, some are medium, sometimes close together, sometimes not. It is all pretty random.

I have austrolorps and orpingtons, maybe it is a breed thing?