2006-08-20 16:59:48 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Vegetarian & Vegan
If you accept the theory of evolution, the first chicken was born from something that wasn't quite chicken-like enough to be called a chicken. But every chicken had to have been hatched from an egg. Therefore the egg came first.
2006-08-20 17:07:06 · answer #1 · answered by rollo_tomassi423 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the egg came first. For starters there were eggs around before chickens were, just ask any dinosaur and they will tell you.
Whenever the chicken first evolved into the species it is today, it would have hatched out of an egg, and from a creature that was also born from an egg.
I guess that answers the question, although I'm sure there is also an answer about what forms first in a chicken when it is impregnated, but i do not now enough about this to give a definite answer.
But hey, i did hear a story about two brothers who fought to the death over the question. The brother who survived thought the egg came first.
Cheers
2006-08-21 00:08:09 · answer #2 · answered by A Drunken Man 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chicken
2006-08-21 00:05:05 · answer #3 · answered by Devaraj A 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg - since the chicked came from an egg.
The egg the first chicken came from, did not necessarily come from a chicken.
2006-08-21 00:06:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
As a vegetarian, no chicken, no egg -- maybe an egg substitute.
Evolutionarily speaking, the egg came first because the dinosaur appeared before the chicken
:-D
2006-08-21 00:09:03 · answer #5 · answered by Dr. Nightcall 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Egg came first, the bird that layed it would have been similar to a chicken but not a chicken.
The egg would have been a chicken egg
2006-08-21 00:06:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Chicken.
2006-08-21 00:05:50 · answer #7 · answered by |Soldier| 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the egg i say the chicken comes from 2 different animals resulting in the egg which hattched what we call a chicken
2006-08-21 00:05:06 · answer #8 · answered by elmo 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is a most exhaustive article on this topic on Wikipedia.org. Quoting it here would be redundant. Both answers could be correct depending on your point of view. In the most general way of looking at the question, the answer would be the egg. I recommend everyone to look it up. Just search for 'chicken or egg' on wikipedia.
2006-08-21 11:00:53 · answer #9 · answered by msk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Indeed, or was it the rooster that came first to impregnate the chicken to lay the egg?
Alas, no one may ever know, I personally believe the egg, to hatch the chicken, I know that the Lord made animals, but it's possible.
2006-08-21 00:05:40 · answer #10 · answered by radicalbearcatsfan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋