For your reading pleasure ...
http://web.uconn.edu/poultry/poultrypages/light_inset.html
https://poultrykeeper.com/general-chickens/light-for-layers/
http://articles.extension.org/pages/66177/lighting-in-housing-for-small-and-backyard-poultry-flocks...
JT,
Just wondering if you had seen any of the following web sites. We live in North Dakota, where Sunrise and Sunset do some major shifting, and I was also looking for a coded way to adjust the on/off times.
https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/sfrwmaker/sun-and-moon-times-cd1629...
From everything I have read, and as chickens use different parts of the light spectrum than humans, it would seem to me that LEDs would be a better choice. I am just not sure that the extra coding to create sunrise and sunset, as well as keeping red lights on at night is necessary. From the...
Good afternoon, I was looking to create something very similar, with some minor differences, and am wondering if you have thought of these. I would like to use RGBW LED strings so I can gradually raise the light levels like it was actually a sunrise (with changing colors), and then go backwards...