As a chicken keeper, I dont keep my eggs in the fridge. As long as I can prevent Fatboy (one of the cats) sitting on them, they are absolutely fine kept in the cold utility room. If that was a warm room, I wouldn't keep them there, but it is relatively cold so they are fine. And they keep for AGES.
as long as you know how fresh they are. My brother in his student days, didn't and almost paid with his life, getting samonela. I think the eggs he ate were a late meal after a few drinks.
I bought some free-range eggs from my local Co-op exactly one week ago. I had two of them fried that morning and another 2, fried again, for tea today. But noticed that they spread out very large in the pan today, but didn't a week ago. I have always thought that the spread-out factor was a sure sign of how fresh eggs are.
I don't know the date that they were laid but the pack has a best-before date of 14th of January, and I have not kept them in the 'fridge for the last week.
Egg whites do spread out in the pan when they start to go stale, you can delay this by keeping in the fridge, if they float when you put them ( in their shells) in a jug of water its time to throw them out, some folks have funny ideas about what to keep in the fridge, my brother told me once to keep cheese in a dish in the kitchen, and it went mouldy within a week, but keeps several weeks in the fridge, just common sense really.