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Chickens take dust baths instead of showers and then use their beaks to clean their feathers. Chickens can see light in the morning almost a whole hour before humans can. Roosters respond by crowing. At night, chickens like to fly up to safe places in the trees to sleep. This is called "roosting." Chickens who live freely in groups all have a special place in the group. This "pecking order" decides who eats first, gets the best roosting spot, etc. Mother chickens teach their children to eat, drink, roost, and avoid enemies. Each rooster can recognize the crow of at least 30 other roosters. According to National Geographic, scientists have settled the old dispute over which came first — the chicken or the egg. They say that reptiles were laying eggs thousands of years before chickens appeared, and the first chicken came from an egg laid by a bird that was not quite a chicken. That seems to answer the question. The egg came first.
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