Mother hen reported in the old country (6)
I believe the answer is:
malaya
'country' is the definition.
(Malaya is an example)
'mother hen reported in the old' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'mother' could be 'ma' (ma can mean mother) and 'ma' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for malaya that I've seen before include "Former country of southeast Asia, now part of another" , "Old colony" , "peninsular group of states" .)