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This has always been my argument to this silly question.
Either at some point the last species before the chickens laid an egg and the first chicken crawled out of that egg, or... the chickens used to give birth to live babies but suddenly stopped that and started laying eggs for some reason, which feels far less likely.
In my understanding this question is about the fundamentals of development of life in general, not specifically chicken. But yes, it seems rather trivial to anybody with sufficient education at our current state of scientific progress. Your former option applies specifically to chicken, and the latter applies to life in general, if we assume that division qualifies as giving birth to live babies.
It definitely is a matter of the fundamentals of development of life and evolution, and the answer follows evolution, which explains it perfectly IMO, within a certain degree of miraculous uncertainty. 😅 Maybe chickens are aliens.