[DelaWhere]

>>>The first part of the post. It’s 170LBS of dry food.
As saturated, it’s 7x that much weight. = 1190 lbs of food.<<<

Yuk... I think I will skip your ‘saturated’ soggy bread...

With 182.625 days in 6 months (including leap year), that figures out to 14.894 ounces per day or 4.965 ounces of dry grain per meal.

Stored grain is not at zero moisture, but usually between 6 and 8% and a loaf of bread is not fully saturated, but contains about 20% moisture by weight.

Sorry it it looks like I am pouncing on you - Just that the engineer in me can’t resist doing the basic calculations...

As one who actively stores enough for a family of 3 + extended family, I would strongly suggest erring on the abundant side. Hunger is not an option and food is an excellent barter item - IMO. So the more well managed stored food you have the better off you are.

LOL That said, Welcome to the thread and please don’t be dissuaded from participating...

[nw_arizona_granny]

With 182.625 days in 6 months (including leap year), that figures out to 14.894 ounces per day or 4.965 ounces of dry grain per meal.

Stored grain is not at zero moisture, but usually between 6 and 8% and a loaf of bread is not fully saturated, but contains about 20% moisture by weight.<<<

Interesting, I am so glad that you know how to figure these things.

LOL, for me “More is Better”.

When I had animals and poultry, they got any thing that went buggy.

If I had old flour, I made sourdough starter with it for the animals, dogs, cats, poultry and hogs love it.

You have not laughed, until you fix full length spaghetti for your ducks, complete with sauce, they think it is long worms and will grab the end of a stand, start swing their heads from side to side and the throw it as far back as possible and allow it to slide down to their craws.

Of course the white ones to look a little odd, with tomato red heads.

So goes real life on the farm.

[CottonBall]

Just that the engineer in me can’t resist doing the basic calculations..

Now I know why I wanted to be adopted by you! I am one myself and am never happier than when doing some sort of complex calculations. BS Metallurical Engineering eons ago, but always worked as a mechanical engineer doing various types of avoinics software.

I wasn't going to mention it here, because it sounds looney. But...one thing I've really enjoyed about preparedness is making excel spreadsheets with my supplies and having it email me when something is near the expiration date or if I add an item but have another that would need to be rotated out then. Just for fun, ya know ;)