Chicken and Eggs. Which came first?

The little question that has been asked for who knows how long, which came first, the chicken or the egg?  Hmmm.   Well, for us, our home grown journey began with someone else's home grown journey. 
 A couple of years ago I started buying fresh eggs from one of my neighbors.  So much tastier than store bought, factory eggs, I decided that buying these fresh eggs was the way to go from now on!  Then I had a brainstorm (one of many, chuckle, chuckle!).  How hard could it be to raise some of my own egg layers?  Soooo,  I mentioned this little idea to my husband, who also took interest in this idea. COOL!  So, last spring we purchased our first ten Americauna chicks from our local farm & family hardware.  Everyone was excited!  All went well, and really uneventful while they were in the brooder.  Once they were big enough to move out , we took a ride to Tractor Supply, and what do you know, they had chicks there too!  They had different varieties than the local hardware, so of course, we had to buy some!  YAY!  We purchased 6, that was the minimum...figured we better stick with that this time around.  So we got those chicks nestled in to the brooder, and everyone was happy! 
About three days into this newer group of chicks, we noticed we had a little piggy on our hands, well not a Pig-pig, but a chick with a pig-type appetite.  Okay, no biggie! 
A week later, it was quite a bit bigger than the other five chicks, and this smaller group of chicks was eating more than the group of ten before them....hmmm?  Well, whatever, that's cool.  Hungry little chicks anyway.  Then the next week, they were all growing well, but still, we had one extra large chick, and it's legs were noticably thicker than the others...I mentioned before that we like to name the animals around here, so that chick had a special name.  SUMO...Yes, Sumo it is...and in the next few weeks, it became even more appropriate as Sumo started to waddle.  We had a cornish cross(meat chicken) on our hands, by accident, but we loved it just the same!  Sumo nor the rest went hungry...
So here, we have added a twist to our pullet journey....to continue later.  Thanks for reading.