Egg

Eggs are items that can be used to craft food items, or used as a throwable entity to spawn chickens.

Mob
Chickens drop an egg item every 5–10 minutes.

Foxes that are holding eggs also have a chance of 8.5%‌/100%‌ to drop the egg they are holding upon death. Alternatively, a player dropping a food item causes the fox to drop the egg.

Combat
Players are able to throw eggs and deal knockback to mobs, but no damage is dealt, similar to a snowball. Likewise, throwing eggs at neutral mobs provokes them. Eggs can also be fired from dispensers and are affected by gravity.

Spawning chickens
When egg

The expected value of the number of chicks an egg produces is $35⁄256$ or 0.137. This means that on average, spawning a single chicken requires 7.3 eggs, a stack of 16 eggs spawn 2.192 chickens, and a full inventory including the hotbar and off-hand ( eggs) can spawn approximately 81 chicks.

Trading
$$, expert-level farmer villagers buy 16 eggs for an emerald as part of their trade.

Data values
Thrown eggs have entity data that define various properties of the entity.

Trivia

 * Eggs break mid-fall if hit by another projectile; the chance of spawning a baby chicken is not affected.
 * Throwing an egg at a nether portal breaks the egg when it hits the portal.
 * A thrown egg face toward the player in first-person view while appear rotated horizontal in third-person view. This is the case for all throwable items (Ender Pearl, Egg, Snowball, and all type of throwable potions)