What came first? The egg or the chicken?

Answer 1

Whatever you want to order first...

Answer 2

It depends on wether you are a believer of faith or science. The people who believe that God created everyone will most likely believe that Chickens were produced on this earth first and then produced the egg for offspring and the others will say the egg came first. There could be the possiblity that since everyone agrees that dinosaurs and reptiles were the first creatures here that they had a deformend egg that hatched into chickens that started multiplying. I don't know. I say give up on the question and ask something else.

Answer 3

Eggs before chickens

Answer 4

Egg... Had to be there to make the chicken in the first place lol

Answer 5

Its God u can ask he created the world he can create the egg or the chicken first.Talk to him and he may say u what came first.

Answer 6

Last time I answered this question I got a violation for adult content.
After the chicken and the egg had sex the chicken said "well I guess we solved that mystery"

Answer 7

I say chicken because the chicken needs to lay the egg

^_^ Merry Christmas!!!

Answer 8

The egg came first.

Answer 9

The chicken

Answer 10

aint that obvious that the egg came first, since dinosaurs had eggs b4 chickens lived, on top of all that chickens and such came from a dinosaur, the whatyouma'call'it dinosaur

Answer 11

Chicken or egg? Like a hall of mirrors at the carnival, each attempt at an answer just leads to another question. If the chicken came first, then didn't it hatch from an egg? And if the egg came first, wasn't it laid by a chicken? It's one of those questions that seem unanswerable.

Scientists agree on where chickens came from: In a sense, human beings invented them, just like they invented cows and pigs and other domesticated animals on Old MacDonald's Farm.

If chickens were interested in tracing their family trees, they would need to bone up on some DNA research done in Japan. Every chicken that ever lived can trace its ancestors, say researchers, to a particular subspecies of Red Jungle Fowl in Thailand.

The male Red Jungle Fowl looks a lot like a storybook rooster. But the Jungle Fowl isn't identical to a farm chicken. Unlike chickens, female Red Jungle Fowls have no combs. Another Jungle Fowl peculiarity: After mating season, males replace their bright red and orange ruff with a crop of dull, blackish feathers called "eclipse plumage."

(To see a Red Jungle Fowl in all its scarlet glory, visit the website www.centralpets.com/pages/critterpages/birds/wild_birds/WBD4315.shtml.)

Scientists think the first domestic chickens were bred from Red Jungle Fowls more than 8,000 years ago in the region now divided into Thailand and Vietnam. People bred chickens first for cockfighting contests, later for eggs and meat.

So the first official "chicken" pecked its way out of an egg laid by a bird that was not-quite-a-chicken. Depending on how you look at it, the egg--or the wild chicken--came first.

In creating the domestic chicken--and coming up with some 175 varieties--human beings also created a world where chickens rule the roost: There are more chickens than any other kind of domesticated bird on Earth.

And where did birds come from? Scientists think that a group of egg-laying feathered dinosaurs were probably the ancestors of today's birds. So if it weren't for dinosaurs, there wouldn't be any Jungle Fowl OR chickens.

We've solved the riddle of where chickens came from. But there's still the question of where eggs came from.

Scientists say eggs--handy miniature incubators of life, nutrients already packed inside--evolved more than 1 billion years ago, in the oceans of Earth. When land animals evolved about 250 million years ago, their eggs had a tough covering to retain moisture on dry land. Egg-layers like amphibians, reptiles, and insects flourished. The first "land eggs" pre-dated chickens by about 249,992,000 years.

So "the egg" may be one answer to the old riddle, but here's another, if a little longer: The chicken came after the bird, the bird came after the dinosaur, the dinosaur came after the egg. And the egg came long after the first single-celled bacteria, the prokaryotes, evolved in the oceans, some 3.5 billion years ago.