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The egg, because there were still animals that laid eggs long before chickens existed.

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This question seems pretty tricky for one to provide straightfoward answer to. First of all, egg is layed by chicken which requires it to be hatched by the chicken. In other words, without chicken, egg cannot be layed and hatched. So therefore, there must be the presence of chicken for the egg layed to be brooded, hatched and become a chick that'd definitely grow up to become chicken.

Now let's look at the situation whereby there is no chicken. Meaning that there can never be egg. And let's take for example, there is egg and there's no chicken to hatch it, how can such egg be hatched? Except maybe through the use of artificial means which is the use of incubator. And before the use of this artificial method of hatching eggs into chicks, there must be the availability of chicken to lay these eggs.
From the above analysis, we all can deduce that chicken came first before the egg because without chicken there can never be egg.
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And without the egg, there can never be a chicken. It still goes back to the same cycle of analysis. 
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Yes. I thought about it in that light too but one is needed for the cycle to start. You can't go to the market and buy only egg expecting it to hatch you a chick without using incubator. But you can do that with chicken, which means that chicken is the starter of the cycle.
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It is a bit of a brain teaser if you start to reason it. First you can't have an egg without a chicken and again you can't have a chicken without an egg. Which brings us down to the question about which one came first.

Some scientific studies have it that some chicken like bird many eras ago laid the eggs that we know today as chicken. These birds were somewhat similar in genetic constitution to our chicken today. They were called protochicken. It is said that genetic mutation occured and the eggs hatched into chicken as we know it today. This makes a whole lot of sense to me.

Else I would have been thinking back to evolution right from the era of dinosaurs and it would still bring me back to the conclusion of genetic mutation somewhere along the line of evolution.
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I don't know how i should answer this question, or from what point. The thing is chickens don't just come to being, it is like a family tree. You know you will have to go back to the roots to know where who came from and where. The truth of the matter is the eggs come first definitely. Without the eggs there is no way the chicken will come about. I am tempted to ask,  where did the first chicken come from for it to have laid eggs and hatched, but that's something that no one can comprehend, only God has the answer to that. But from my knowledge eggs come first, just like human beings there has to be a rooster for all this to happen. Without it there would be no eggs definitely. When the rooster is there, eggs are laid, then the chicken will lay on them for like 21 days then hatch. That's my take.
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The only authoritative source is the bible, and that says the chicken came first.

Of course there is always somebody who thinks he has a better idea.
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My answer is eggs. The egg came first and then it hatched a chicken. Two birds that weren't really chickens created a chicken egg. The egg came first. 
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This question is a pretty nice question the thing that came first between eggs and chicken is eggs the hen will first lay eggs before the chicken is produce
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This question is really a universal question, asked and confused by most of the people all around the world.
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Egg because even for human beings our eggs are called ovum that's where we come from. So for chicken, eggs came first for the chicks to be hatched to become chickens
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This topic is really very confusing though science suggest that Egg came first and I agree with it, but there are still people out there who thinks the opposite.
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In the beginning of the world God created all the animals so chicken was part of the creation so chicken laid eggs and increased the chicken in number so chicken came before eggs 
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The eggs probably came first, that much is certain. Before there were ever any chickens, there were eggs. In the past, eggs were found 340 million years ago.
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The chicken came first.

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obviously when a hen gets pregnant with her husband, then she became hot then she gives egg and after 21 days chicken will come out of the egg.
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The age-old question of whether the chicken or the egg came first has puzzled philosophers and scientists for centuries. From a biological perspective, the answer is that the egg came first. This is because the evolutionary ancestors of chickens, such as dinosaurs and other reptiles, were already laying eggs before the first true chickens evolved. Therefore, it is likely that the first chicken egg was laid by a bird that was not quite a chicken, but rather a transitional species that was genetically similar to a chicken.

However, from a more philosophical perspective, the answer could be argued either way. Some people might argue that the chicken had to come first, as it was needed to lay the egg, while others might argue that the egg had to come first, as it was needed to hatch the first chicken. Ultimately, it depends on how you define "chicken" and "egg" and which perspective you take
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egg

Eggs come from chickens and chickens come from eggs: that's the basis of this ancient riddle. But eggs – which are just female sex cells – evolved more than a billion years ago, whereas chickens have been around for just 10,000 years.
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Eggs certainly comes before chicken , but chicken eggs did not . You cannot have one without the other.however,  if we absolutely had to pick a side based on evoluntary evidence . 
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First of all, egg is layed by chicken which requires it to be hatched by the chicken. In other words, without chicken, egg cannot be layed and hatched. So therefore, there must be the presence of chicken for the egg layed to be brooded, hatched and become a chick that'd definitely grow up to become chicken.
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