Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

John ran into the house this morning all excited yelling "Mommy! Mommy! Guess what! Guess what!". At first we something was wrong but then John thrust out his hand and proclaimed "Look! An egg, an egg, we have an egg, the chickens laid an egg!".

John had gone out to take care of the chickens and he found a brown egg that one of our chickens had laid yesterday in the chicken tractor. This is our very first home grown chicken egg from one of our golden comet hens that we raised from an itty bitty little chick.