The chicken or the egg causality dilemma arises from the expression "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" Chickens hatch from eggs, but a brooding mother chicken must keep an egg warm in order for it to hatch. This mutual reliance causes ambiguity as to which originally gave rise to the other. To ancient philosophers, the question about the first chicken or egg also evoked the questions of how life and the universe in general began. Cultural references to the chicken and egg intend to point out the futility of identifying the first case of circular cause and consequence.

Why can’t we just be like chickens and lay eggs? Just lay it somewhere and keep it warm. Then 1 month later a baby hatches from the egg.

A woman from Wales gives up her vacations and makes a bank loan to pay operations for a chicken she has raised since egg hatch. News en Romanian.

KEN ARNO THE EGG MAN runs one of the last poultry farms in the San Fernando Valley. It’s entirely organic, with free-range chickens and turkeys, some caged chickens, goats, a few geese and ostrichlike rheas. Teachers buy his fertile chicken eggs so children can watch them hatch in school. With a permit from the county agriculture department, which

“Yep they’re longer, bigger hens. But we don’t raise ‘em for the meat so much as the aigs. A reglar chicken don’t lay no more than one a day. These chickens lay one long one every three days, an’ it take about three hens lined up to hatch it.”

id's John Carmack isn't the only game-engine developer throwing cold water on Ageia's PhysX processor. Key figures at Valve and Crytek have now gone on record with their lack of enthusiasm for the new hardware, which is already having a tough time gaining an installed base. Will this egg rot before the chicken has a chance to hatch?