Eggs everywhere[]
Hi there. I removed your text about your experiment to egg because the details of the experiment weren't disclosed, and it would be simpler for someone to simply look at the Java code for this rather than to keep running empirical tests. Stating the theoretical probability should be sufficient.
I would expect, if you just had a bunch of chickens and you were manually collecting eggs, you might miss some if you ran your experiment longer than 5 minutes because eggs despawn after 5 minutes. The best test I can think of would be to make a field of hoppers feeding into a chest, put a fence around it, and put a lot of chickens in the field, then count the number of eggs that end up in the chest after, say, an hour.
For myself, I wish there was a way to prevent chickens from laying eggs! They don't stack well in inventory (just 16) and after 3 or 4 stacks of them, you don't need any more. If you have 8 chickens on a small island like I do, there are eggs everywhere and it's hard to avoid picking them up unintentionally just going about my business. I suppose I could kill off most of my chickens, but I don't need them for food either; I have 7 stacks of cooked fish in a chest at my base. Amatulic (talk) 17:56, 5 June 2021 (UTC)