Unofficial Poll- What comes first, the chicken, or the egg?

[Weeg]

Incidentally, jungle fowl (the oldest things we could look at and say "that's probably a chicken or chicken adjacent") first show up in the fossil record in the late Miocene (5-10 million years ago). And the earliest members of Phasianidae (ground nesting birds like pheasants, turkeys and chickens) show up in the fossil record in the Oligocene about 30 million years ago. Thereby thoroughly showing that the egg predates the chicken in chicken lineage by about 20 million years.

Sooo, i jungal fowl are ancient chickens which eggs evolved into chickens today, wouldn't that mean the chicken came first? But the egg had to create the jungle fowl, soooo, I'm confused!

 

[Fuchsia]

My vote's on chicken. I'm a Christian and believe that God created animals "according to their kind". And so the chickens came first... because otherwise, how did the egg hatch? It had to be incubated!

(Not trying to start a fight with anyone who believes differently, I love seeing the different views. @ChocolateMouse the way you put it sounds pretty interesting. )

I agree! Thank you for saying that! I couldn't think of the right way to put it, you did it perfect!

 

[Weeg]

My vote's on chicken. I'm a Christian and believe that God created animals "according to their kind". And so the chickens came first... because otherwise, how did the egg hatch? It had to be incubated!

(Not trying to start a fight with anyone who believes differently, I love seeing the different views. @ChocolateMouse the way you put it sounds pretty interesting. )

I think this is a fair answer...

 

[Weeg]

I want to say chicken.

That is my train of though exactly!

 

[Weeg]

You have to have a chicken to have a egg so I say chicken. Like God made man and told him to multiply; he made chickens and told them the same thing probably.

What about the rooster!

 

[Bird_Lover_17]

So if the two chicken relatives created an egg, wouldn't that mean the chicken came first?

I meant chicken-like

 

[The Happster]

fungal fowl are ancient chickens

Fungal fowl. That's a new one.

 

[SBFChickenGirl]

What about the rooster!

I think it's pretty well established that roosters are definitely part of the equation XD XD.

 

[SBFChickenGirl]

Fungal fowl. That's a new one.

 

[Fuchsia]

I was going to say egg because I thought the chicken would have hatched out of the egg. But how did the egg get their.

I think chicken.