It's actually the egg that came first once when a bird which was a bit like the hen layed a different type of egg in which the hen was there so the universal mystery of which came first has been.

Egg first come or hen. The first chicken in the. The egg came first, and then it hatched a chicken. Back to our original question:

However, if we absolutely had to pick a side, based on last update: Not an egg but a hen came first in the world. They are often smaller when the hen is a young layer, and occasionally they will have an odd shape, but they are just as nutritional as.

Eggs from pullets (hens under one year old) are actually considered a delicacy and are called pullet eggs. Like the old fossils of dinosaur eggs that are about 190 million years old! The hen obviously comes first.

Any other eggs are not hen's egg. The 1st hen maybe came from a dinosaur's egg, or from a crocodile's egg, whatever, but it was not hen and. So in a nutshell (or an eggshell, if you will), two birds that weren't really chickens created a chicken egg, and hence, we have an answer:

Many professors did research on the question of eggs and chickens the egg shell contains a protein called ovocleidin. Inverts, fish, amphibians and dinosaurs were laying eggs long before the first hen existed. Eggs come from chickens and chickens come from eggs:

Eggs certainly came before chickens, but chicken eggs did not—you can't have one without the other. But in fact, the first egg your chicken lays is completely safe to eat! Chickens are capable of laying eggs without a rooster and hens are raised to produces unfertilized eggs.