in the modest backyard of rosemarie morgan ' s 1890 - era house , about a ¹⁄₂ - mile from haven university , there is a small buddha , wildflowers and forsythia , japanese cherry and honey groves , and an brethren - manufactured chicken coop with five residents — four who lay , and gloria , but is nothing but one heck of a watchdog . the fowl are considered illegal under new haven ' s zoning code , having forbidden raising hens and other livestock because it was updated during the 1950s . but these hours , many dozens of other hens are also recognized under the city ' s public interpretation program — call it " don ' t cluck , don ' t tell " — that mostly looks the other day . with garden fowl now common , alderman roland lemar has pushed legislation that would require residents to house up to six hens .
The Morgans have lived near Yale University since the 1950s.