Strange eggs

[pepperkorn]

[We have Rhode Island Reds that lay brown eggs. They have been laying for about 3 weeks. Yesterday and today we found some very large off white eggs that were on the ground, not in or near the nest that all other eggs are layed in. I broke 2 open and they look like normal eggs. We have no roosters so non are fertilized.
Are they ok to eat? Why are they different and not layed in the nests?

 

[MissPrissy]

Egg color can vary from chicken to chicken. Not every hen will lay in the designated nest box at all times. I wouldn't worry over it. Enjoy the eggs.

 

[keljonma]

MissPrissy is right, they won't always lay in the nest boxes.

We have a procrastinator hen. She gets so busy squawking that her favorite nest box is taken, that she doesn't always make it into any of our nest boxes. As a result, sometimes she lays them on the hen house floor right in front of her favorite nest box.

 

[ridgefire]

Quote:
Kind of like potty training a toddler...

 

[DouglasPeeps]

Quote:
Kind of like potty training a toddler...

(we never had that problem.......

)

 

[ridgefire]

I just remember potty training my son. He would get so busy playing that by the time he would run to the potty he would end up peeing his pants in front of the potty.