Proportional to size.... I'm ~36x the mass of a chicken (2.5/90 kg), so my eggs would be something like 2 .3 kg per egg. If the shell was 8% of the mass, it's a LOT of egg holy crap.

Um idk, I guess I would be pretty hungry if I laid a giant egg every day

I mean chickens (and other egg laying animals) will eat their own eggs to recuperate the energy, so it certainly seems like the smart thing to do :3. I mean an egg of that size every day would really require you to increase intake of both calories and various minerals

How do I delete someone else’s Lemmy account?

A large egg coming out of my ass? I'm not sure I would enjoy this.

If I'm not reproducing I need to re-absorb all that protein somehow. There's a reason so many mammals eat the afterbirth aka the placenta.

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Eat the eggs...? That seems like a waste. I mean, sure, for an occasional snack but I'd wait until the mini-me hatched and have a succulent meal later. If you're laying one every day and were patient you could feed an army. Which I would have because I'd only eat every other off-spring and the others would be the foundation of the new Imperial order.

It would be nice to have something come out of my butt that tasted good. 🤔

It's hard to picture, as a real human who grew up eating eggs and not laying them. Since the human race has always faced the threat of starvation, I expect the cultural norm would have developed a long time ago that eating your own eggs is perfectly natural and normal. A taboo against eating them would be a serious disadvantage during a famine. We would grow up with many cultural influences about the eggs. Religious texts like the bible would no doubt make moral pronouncements many people would follow without question. It might even be a political issue.

Do women drink their own milk? No?

I'd go to the nearest doctor/secret government experiment facility/mad scientist, and ask them to figure out what the hell is happening.

No. It would feel weird.

Do you eat your own cum now?

Nah, doesn't matter what your views are that's a form of cannibalism.

I could be wrong but I think Entropy means this is a net loss in nutrients and calories, based on the waste it took to produce the egg. The building-blocks needed to make it were already there and if my body needed it it would've taken them directly so I probably wouldn't...? Unless I was starving, which presumably egg production would also decrease to begin with.

But this reminds me of something.

We have bacteria in our colons that produce bio-available B12 but this is downstream of the absorption point. I remember reading theories that we originally obtained this B12 from unsanitary food and water sources (river, pond water, fecal-matter on foods in wild, etc.) Surprisingly a significant chunk of those who eat meat are also deficient of B12 in the modern age.

Are they otherwise my potential offspring? I'll say no for now to get around the moral dilemma. Let's say my body just produces a food product and it happens to take the form and flavor of a chicken egg for some reason. I'd definitely try them. Feels like I'd have to do something with them so they aren't pilling up, rotting and filling up landfills. Are other people making these things too? Jesus, what a mess! I guess we could trade to make it a little less weird, but I'm sure capitalism would find some fucked up way to charge us for trading them. Either way feels like a conservation of energy problem. I'm not subsisting on these things. So I guess I'm eating them for fun? Most people will probably end up getting bored about it or have a weird fetish for it. I don't see much of an in between

I would share them with the needy

It'd probably feel quite weird for the first week or so... but I'd eat them. Probably more nutritious than my average meals anyways. Unless I'm losing weight of course

No.

Shit no. Chickens that peck at their own eggs have major problems, either psychological/stress or nutritional.

Maybe ask a woman what her period tastes like and after you get kicked in the nuts so hard they bounce off the roof of your mouth, you'll know the flavor of reproductive material one way or another.

Prion diseases, no thanks

We could make our own custard like the platypus

Probably

I have no cloaca so I wonder which hole I should push an object out of that's around 10% of my body size, and whether it'll be covered in waste from said hole. It may be annoying to fish out of the toilet every time and to clean it but it should feed a person for several days

Would rather stop the process. Your going to use more energy and resources creating them than you get back eathing them. You can't sustain chickens on their eggs.

From purely the practical perspective, no. There aren't really times where I need that much egg for anything once scaled up to my size.

I scrolled through the thread real quick and saw this compared to both cum and breast milk. But that’s not what this is. Eggs are what’s left over after the chicken doesn’t get pregnant. They are effectively a menstrual product. So instead of semen or milk, you should be asking yourself if you consume period blood.

well, chickens do, so sure.. why not?

Just use My Eggs.

Wouldn't that be cannibalism?

I'm not that fond of the taste of chicken eggs and my cholesterol is in the upper range of what is ok.

It would feel like an offense to the purpose of eating

No. The net nutritional gain would be zero plus I hate eggs generally

People drink milk that they have to steal from another species but if you tell someone that you tried breast milk from a human, you are called weird or gross. I personally wouldn't try it, but i find cow or whatever milk so much worse.

No.

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No

No

No.

If someone did id think them a MINGER!