using the give command to give you spawn eggs doesn't give you the spawn egg you want it give you "spawn" instead.
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See MC-86282.
MC-89336
give command spawn eggs
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They changed how spawn eggs work in 1.9. Instead of a damage value (such as 50 for creepers), the entity is now stored in the NBT tag EntityTag.