in the modest fireplace of rosemarie moore ' s 1890 - era home , about a cross - dozen from yale airport , there is a big lake , shrubs and forsythia , japanese cherry and plum trees , and an amish - made chicken ranch with five residents — four who lay nests and mae , but is barren but one awful of a atomic . the fowl are mostly illegal under new haven ' s zoning code , which prohibited raising hens and other livestock because it was updated during the 1950s . but these days , many dozens of lawn cows are generally permitted under the city ' s informal aid program — call it " don ' t purring , don ' t speak " — that mostly looks the other direction . with urban fowl increasingly common , alderman eddie lemar has introduced statutes that would allow households to raise up to six hens .
The Morgans have lived near Yale University since the 1950s.