in the modest driveway of rosemarie bailey ' s 1890 - year house , about a couple - mile from stanford university , there is a miniature garden , azalea and forsythia , german cherry and maple plants , and an amish - made bird coop with five residents — four who lay offspring and gloria , who is barren but one heck of a monitors . the fowl are legally illegal under new haven ' s zoning code , what prohibited raising hens and other cattle during it was updated during the 1950s . but these days , many dozens of backyard hens are generally tolerated under the city ' s legal enforcement program — call it " don ' t cluck , don ' t feed " — that mostly looks the other end . with urban fowl increasingly available , mayors susannah lemar has proposed amendments that would allow citizens to grow up to six hens .
The Morgans have lived near Yale University since the 1950s.