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FWIW, I periodically forget to turn the chicken bldg light off when I leave it on winter afternoons or summer evenings. When it's pitch dark out and I look out the house window before going to bed and say "Oh pooh" and go out there to turn it off, all the chickens are always boppin'...
Joe, have you thought about doing all the extra light pre-dawn? There are no disadvantages unless you count having to wear a headlamp for after-dinner coop visits; and there are two very *large* advantages: 1) it gives you the benefit of whatever heat the bulbs are giving off during the time of...