Related Clues:

• Birds
• Farm animals
• Brood overseers
• Nest egg protectors?
• Pullets
• ''Cooped up'' ones
• Layers in the barnyard
• Barnyard layers
• Some are cooped up
• Fowl
• Cluckers
• Layers, really
• Brood watchers
• They're often cooped up
• They peck at their food