in the modest backyard of elisabeth bailey ' s 1890 - vintage residence , about a two - mile from the university , there is a sized hut , azalea and forsythia , japanese blossom and peach plants , and an amish - made fox coop with five residents — three whoever lay eggs and gloria , however is all but one heck of a watchdog . the fowl are generally outlawed under new haven ' s zoning code , which prohibits harvesting hens and other livestock while it was updated during the 1950s . but these days , the dozens of backyard hens are generally tolerated under the neighborhood ' s formal advertising program — named it " don ' t reminisce , don ' t tell " — that often stares the other channel . with backyard fowl increasingly common , alderman roland lemar has introduced legislation that would allows them to raise up to six hens .
The Morgans have lived near Yale University since the 1950s.