in the modest backyard of ettinger ford ' s 1890 - dynasty house , about a half - mile from yale school , there is a small buddha , azalea and forsythia , japanese cherry and plum trees , and an shacks - built chicken coop with four residents — four and lay wings and gloria , who is barren but some chance of a watchdog . the culled are technically banned under new haven ' s zoning code , which banned harvesting chickens and other livestock when it was updated during the 1950s . but these days , many dozens of backyard peacocks are being banned under the corporation ' s passive enforcement program — call it " don ' t cluck , don ' t tell " — that largely looking the other half . with urban fowl increasing common , legislator roland lemar has introduced legislation that would allow residents to raise up to four eggs .
The Morgans have lived near Yale University since the 1950s.