An Age Old Question Will Soon Be Answered.

[Scott F]

Today I ordered a chicken and an egg from Amazon.

 

Ill let you know.....

[DanielG]

The chicken came first....

The truth.... At one time there were no chickens around. When explorers came from Europe to the new world they brought their versions of chickens. A small partridge like bird that was domesticated. It was bread with birds here and we have what today developed into the meat heavy flightless bird we call a chicken. Breeding has evolved it into the many varieties we have today. They did the same all over the world and we have all kinds of chickens.

Have you seen the size of chicken breast in stores these days? No hormones to do it... it's all done with breeding.

 

So the chicken came first. Breeding led to what was the first rudimentary chicken development. It was an egg from a bird that wasn't a chicken.

 

Can you tell I eat a lot of chicken....? Let us know if Amazon gets it right.

[Scott F]

40 minutes ago, DanielG said:

The chicken came first....

So the chicken came first. Breeding led to what was the first rudimentary chicken development. It was an egg from a bird that wasn't a chicken.

 

Can you tell I eat a lot of chicken....? Let us know if Amazon gets it right.

The bird that laid the egg that became the first chicken, may not have been a chicken...but that first chicken, was hatched...FROM AN EGG! 

[DanielG]

46 minutes ago, Scott F said:

The bird that laid the egg that became the first chicken, may not have been a chicken...but that first chicken, was hatched...FROM AN EGG! 

I see what you mean... but it wasn't a chicken egg, just an egg.

Anyway. It really doesn't matter does it.... especially when fried!

[Bird]

Hmmm, why do I feel intellectually inspired after reading this?

 

Are chickens actually chickens? Be honest. 

 

[jimmyjoe]

1 hour ago, DanielG said:

The truth

   Perhaps. Perhaps not.  https://www.thoughtco.com/the-domestication-history-of-chickens-170653

 

   https://www.academia.edu/3346663/Chicken_Husbandry_in_Late-Medieval_Eastern_England_c._1250-1400_Anthropozoologica_44_2_2009_35-56

 

   jj

 

  

[DanielG]

1 hour ago, jimmyjoe said:

   Perhaps. Perhaps not.  https://www.thoughtco.com/the-domestication-history-of-chickens-170653

 

   https://www.academia.edu/3346663/Chicken_Husbandry_in_Late-Medieval_Eastern_England_c._1250-1400_Anthropozoologica_44_2_2009_35-56

 

   jj

 

  

Okay, that was interesting... I wonder what it means for the chicken/egg thing..... Thanks.

 

Boy, this is a weird topic isn't it... I mean for this site. I think I'm done with it for now.

[jimmyjoe]

 

1 minute ago, DanielG said:

Thanks.

  As the dairy farmer said .... "You milk'em."      ?     jj

[DanielG]

16 hours ago, jimmyjoe said:

 

  As the dairy farmer said .... "You milk'em."      ?     jj

As the 60's hippie ones said.... "conform and be dull"