If you do dive deeper, strongly suggest looking here too. A lot, I think, can be learned by comparing the starting assumptions of Britian and ourselves (see also - hint, search for the word "chicken", it will shock you) during the same period.
I'm aware of it, but I've not researched it. My history studies stop at the printing press. Everything since is "current events". (One of numerous links to the same document. I'm on my tablet, it's terrible for anything but reading.) As to chickens at home in the U.S. and world wars, like...
the 5 acre minimum is not for the chickens, its for the neighbors, and its a legacy of zoning. Most likely the townuship had a buffer zone of "country estate", Res/Ag, or similar mixed use properties between true farms and typical suburban residential, which itself buffered more densely packed...