I play on my own private dedicated server, using the vanilla JAR with a vanilla client.
This world has been active since the release of 1.17 and I have been actively playing in the world for nearly 200 hours. Within aproximately 200+ blocks from my base, I found two chickens, aproximately 8 blocks away from the chickens, there was a huge pile of chicken eggs on the ground roughly occupying a single block, as if they'd all been dropped at once. When I collected them, there were 193 eggs in total.
I had previously explored that part of the world, but it's not a part of the world that would have been chunkloaded very much.
Nobody else plays on my server (it's whitelisted to me only). I have no explanation as to how those eggs were in the world.
The chickens were probably too far from my base area in the world to have been chunk loaded, server has a view distance of 8 blocks, chickens were 200+ blocks away from my base area (but if they had be chunkloaded long enough for the eggs to be laid by the chickens, surely they'd have de-spawned too?)
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I was about to provide an update stating that I don't expect that this would be reproducable, but I've just joined my server and went to see if I could find the same location again out of curiosity, as I knew the aproximate direction I needed to travel in.
I managed to find the location again, and was amazed to find a large bunch of chicken eggs in the world again, at what I believe is the same location.
Following this discovery, I've re-joined with a fabric modded client so that I could easily see the distance between my base and the location of the eggs using the minimap mod, as you will see from the screenshot showing my inventory (see the waypoint above my inventory), my base (where I spend a lot of time building) is 300 blocks away from where the eggs were found. Note that until now, I have been playing exclusively with the vanilla client (and a vanilla server), so the fabric modded client is nothing to do with this.
All the eggs shown in my inventory, where those that I found on the ground.
I hope the screenshots are useful. If further information is required, I'd be happy to oblige.
Thank you for your report!
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I can also confirm from the playerdata folder on the server, that nobody else has ever connected to my server instance.