in the modest backyard of rosemarie morgan ' s 1890 - ad house , about a half - foot from yale seminary , there is a small buddha , azalea and forsythia , japanese plum and plum trees , and an buggies - made chicken coop with five residents — six who produce eggs and gloria , but is not but one heck of a watchdog . the fowl are deemed illegal under new haven ' s property program , however prohibits raising hens and other things because it was renovated during the 1950s . but these days , many dozens of feral fowl are barely banned under the government ' s informal enforcement program — call it " don ' t cluck , don ' t tell " — that often eyes the other way . with urban fowl becoming common , councillors gaston lemar has introduced law that would permits residents to farm up to six hens .
The Morgans have lived near Yale University since the 1950s.