Which came first the Chicken or the Egg?

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As a buddhist I would say the Egg (although other buddhists may disagree)

Physical form is created by the consiousness and the consiousness is always evolving, therefore, in between two subsequent lives, the consiousness evolved somewhat and created the physical form of the chicken.

But

Each new life is begun as an embryo within the mother, and the mother (which was almost, but not quite a chicken) produced the egg of what would hatch to become an actual chicken.

Does anyone know what Im talking about?