Awesmely comprehensive and well thought out thread!
Though I have a thought about the chicken shortage in SAMAD...
What brought you to the conclusion that there wouldn't be many of them? Although they require water, it's fairly minimal and chickens would be content to live on greywater. They're foragers by nature- there would be no shortage of pests, bugs and worms for them to eat as pesticides would be nonexistent or not in widespread use. In fact, pest control and natural fertilization are two services that chickens provide easily. Eggs are a great food source and are an alternative to beans. They're fairly hardy birds. In a free range environment there would be no need for antibiotics to prevent sickness. Their only vulnerability is to predators and theft. You certainly wouldn't have trouble getting them to breed-afterall, chickens are rampant in 2nd and 3rd world nations like Mexico and parts of Africa.
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