Possible Clues:

• Where eggs are laid
• Abode for biddies
• In place of battery light gas, unhelpful when preserving heat source
• Sounds like it¿s foul to accommodate layers at home
• Coop for domestic birds
• Site in a poor-protection simile
• No place for foxes
• Where mothers brood over the young in their clutches
• Bonanza for a fox (note the first word)
• Shed many layers there