A single chicken represents how many days of survival food?

[LTAY1946]

Age would be another factor as some only need 600-800 cals a day. Your chicken soup is also not a really balanced meal.

 

[SourRoses]

Depends on the size of the chicken. A typical barnyard or feral bird counts for a lot less than a meat bird.
If the bird is built for laying, you'd get more out of it overall from the eggs.

 

[Klutch]

1 chicken = 3 days

 

[Lor]

Keep it boiling over the fire. That's what the pioneers did - they kept a pot of soup boiling all the time and kept adding things to it, and eating out of it. Palatability goes down after a while, and you can't do this well while traveling, but you won't get food poisoning.

Reminds me of...
Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold,
Pease porridge in the pot, nine days old;
Some like it hot, some like it cold,
Some like it in the pot, nine days old.

I'd say 3 days sounds reasonable.

 

[NatJ]

Age would be another factor as some only need 600-800 cals a day.

Are you thinking of children? The OP did say "adult."

Children are more complicated because they are often smaller (need less food) but growing (need more food than an adult of the same size would need). Teenage boys seem to need the most, because they are already as big as some adults, but also growing quickly.

 

[LTAY1946]

Are you thinking of children? The OP did say "adult."

Children are more complicated because they are often smaller (need less food) but growing (need more food than an adult of the same size would need). Teenage boys seem to need the most, because they are already as big as some adults, but also growing quickly.

No I was thinking of adults that weigh from 90 lbs to 290+ pounds. A skinny 18 year old adult to a pro football player. 3 days still might be a good average.