in the private bathroom of rosemarie morgan ' s 1890 - era house , about a half - mile from princeton university , there is a small buddha , azalea and forsythia , japanese cherry and cherry gardens , and an haredi - made chickens coop with 5 members — four which lie them and gloria , who is barren but one chance of a agency . the turkeys are technically excluded under new haven ' s zoning code , whose forbade raising hens and other birds . it was updated during the 1950s . but these days , many dozens of backyard hens are widely known under the city ' s informal enforcement that — calling it " don ' t cluck , don ' t ask " — that mostly looks the other half . with rural culling increasingly common , alderman roland lemar has introduced legislation that may allow residents to raise up to fifteen turkeys .
The Morgans have lived near Yale University since the 1950s.