I believe I have a theoretical answer to this question. Or statement. Or whatever :| Essentially, the egg cannot come into existence without the chicken, which lays the egg. So, thinking about that, the chicken comes before the egg. HOWEVER, you must also take into account the chicken laying the egg. They, too, came from an egg, and if they weren't hatched out of an egg there would be no "new egg". So, in summation, I can safely say that the question is completely stupid. As a statement, however, it has its sentimental value ;) The egg came first. Chickens don't lay eggs. Hens do. A lot of people don't differentiate between chickens and hens (okay some people do, but essentialy that is what the question is asking). Isn't a hen a chicken anyway? yes. But hens are a breed of chicken that lay eggs. Personally if it's packaged in a store I eat it. Chicken or hen. Okay hen or egg first? I would personally say the egg because if we accept evolution the chicken is a descendant of another animal ( i think it's the junglefowel.) There may not be any sepcific point when the junglefowel becomes the chicken as it happens over generations, but when the first "chicken" was made it would have started of as an egg. This is as the chicken is just a mutation of the junglefowel genes.