in the modest backyard of rosemarie morgan ' s 1890 - era house , about a half - lane from yale u , there is a small garden , azalea and forsythia , japanese cherry and honey forests , and an amish - made livestock coop with several resident — four that lay eggs and gloria , when is also but one half of a watchdog . the fowl are officially allowed under new haven ' s land legislation , which prohibited raising turkeys and other livestock when it was updates during the 1950s . but these days , many dozens of backyard hens are generally known under the city ' s informal amendment program — termed it " don ' t cluck , don ' t run " — that generally looks the other way . with urban swans extremely available , alderman gaston lemar has authored legislation that also allow locals to pasture up to six hens .
The Morgans have lived near Yale University since the 1950s.