Taking the "chicken or the egg" conundrum on its own intended terms, I've long thought it was an easy one: the egg came first. All chickens come from eggs, but at some point, historically, something we'd marginally class as a chicken was birthed by something we wouldn't. The real question is why I chose to accept the intended meaning at all, when my sons this morning found better ones.
For example: the egg came first. By hundreds of millions of years. Some tiny sea creature hatched.
Or: the chicken came first, because c comes before e. (I'll add that if someone starts selling the iChicken, it will also have come first:
i before e except after c. Do not deign to argue this point, or feign to take its reign of truth seriously.)
A better argument I'm glad the boys didn't think of: the chicken came first. Eggs aren't capable of orgasm.
As for which came first, the chicken or the chicken, this is a more difficult question, and requires access to the records of the farm(s) from which they arrived.
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