• Susaga@ttrpg.network
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    10 months ago

    The answer is egg, because egg-laying creatures predate the chicken.

    If we count it as a chicken egg only, then it depends on if you describe a chicken egg as “an egg laid by a chicken” or “an egg that could hatch into a chicken”.

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      10 months ago

      Um no.

      The foetus is first formed in the uterus and then the hen lays down the calcium layer around it.

      So it depends on whether you consider a foetus a chicken or not.

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        10 months ago

        I think you mean the embryo; it takes some time after being laid for the zygote inside the egg to develop to the point it could be considered a fetus.

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      10 months ago

      If we count it as a chicken egg only, then it depends on if you describe a chicken egg as “an egg laid by a chicken” or “an egg that could hatch into a chicken”.

      I think we watched the same youtube video on the topic!

          • Susaga@ttrpg.network
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            10 months ago

            I mean, I assume the youtube video? I don’t know, I didn’t watch one that talked about chicken eggs. You’d need to say which youtube video you mean. My explanation came from me.

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            10 months ago

            I had a science teacher explain it back in high school the 90s before youtube existed. He went with the egg being first since the egg is what we call the new animal until it hatches, the shell is just the external container.