The story
First attested in English in Thomas Howell's New Sonnets and Pretty Pamphlets (1570) in the couplet "Counte not thy Chickens that vnhatched be, / Waye wordes as winde, till thou finde certaintee", possibly deriving from similar medieval and early modern Latin fables and maxims.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.