what predates dinosaurs? the basic building blocks life started off as single cell organisms like algae. Before that, closest thing to life was a group of nucleic acids, proteins, lipids and carbohydrates which resembled neither an egg or animal.
then again, it would be neither definitively. It could have been born a turkey but through natural adaption it varied enough from turkey to create its own niche as a chicken which could have happened at any arbitrary point during its beginning.