Hi, The usual form of this in English is Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Clive
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Hen or Egg??
And the answer to that eternal question is "neither one of them": there ought to have been a minimum of two chickens/eggs, or else the population (of one egg/chicken) would've died out and there would be no hens/chickens/eggs as of now.
Just my take, take it or leave it