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Northern US and above is entirely different from southern US. We get such short days in the winter I would think it might even have negative health benefits not to provide light. Many people get depressive and sleep disorders here if they are not exposed to enough extra light. Animals can...

I had some bantams under lights on the porch for many months. Probably 6 months or more getting eggs from fall through spring. They never learned to go on the roosts before it got dark. Every evening there was a mad scramble, very loud squawking, chickens banging into things, falling back off...

The problem with evening light is if there isn't another dimmer light source when it goes off your chickens are suddenly in the dark. They can't see in the dark much better than you can. Some will go so far as to panic and smash into the walls. Many will just end up sleeping on the floor. If...