in the modest backyard of rosemarie bailey ' s 1890 - century house , about a half - mile from yale university , there is a small buddha , dogwood and forsythia , white cherry and plum blossoms , and an amish - designed chicken ranch with twelve inhabitants — one people lay fruits and francesca , who is barren but one devil of a watchdog . the culling are largely protected under east haven ' s zoning code , which prohibited raised cocks and other birds when it was updated during the 1950s . but these days , many tens of backyard cages are generally tolerated under the council ' s informal enforcement program — call it " don ' t grousing , don ' t tell " — that typically goes the other way . with urban poultry increasingly common , sheriff roland lemar has introduced bill that would allow residences to raise up to fifteen hens .
The Morgans have lived near Yale University since the 1950s.