Well, it's been mentioned, might as well bring it up.

Which came first, chicken or the egg?

Being a farmer, I know the answer. Neither. It had to be two chickens, because even if the egg were magically fertilized (or divinely, but that would mean chickens are part God:wacko, even if it were fertilized it would be unable to reproduce. However, two chickens could reproduce.

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dont you need a roster and a chircken

naw, you mean rooster and hen. Chicken is generic. Kinda like cattle.

but yeah, two of the same gender couldn't reproduce of course.

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The egg, from an evolutionary standpoint, came first, because eggs as a reproductive mechanism were around far before chickens as a species, or even birds.

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SST it because I just tranclatd it in my head, and here Chicken only means hens

Of course the egg came first, why you think they are called chickens.

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They aren't. Se llaman pollos.

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The egg came first, because a not-quite chicken laid an egg which had a genetic mutation, and the hatchling became the first chicken.

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I never knew that...about chicken being a generic term. You do learn something new every day.

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