Egg or Hen

@ Gopinath .. lol man.. I just saw this topic outta the blue! But of course it was the HEN!!! or was it the EGG!? My serious theory is that Chickens must have evolved from another bird so it must have come from an egg of another bird and would have just survived as chickens are small and have very good survival instincts.. it must have evolved into the chicken we know and love to eat!

That's a pretty original question.

I have been answering this question since my childhood. As Anoop says - the answer is Evolution. As per Darwin, every species is constantly evolving. At some point in this evolution timeline, you stop calling something X and start calling it Y. Obviously you cannot switch to Y when the species is still inside an egg. So it is fair to say that the Hen or the Chicken came first. Why it decided to cross the road is a whole different discussion topic. Guess, you don't even want to go there. Do you? :)

Anyways egg came first.. if you don't stress chicken's-egg!

@ Venu : LOL! dont get people started on the why did the chicken cross the road theory LOL!

It's something like

"Why did the germ cross the microscope? ...

..to get to the other slide!" ..kind of thing

@ Rahul : he he he.. thats a new one!

Up to you!

if you like "chiken" then Hen has to come first or if you like "Omlet" then egg has to at first place. That SIMPLE