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I am thinking about lighting my coop and run as the fall and winter are approaching. I want to have lights on from 7:00am until maybe 8:00pm? I was wondering how to sequence the operation of the lights.
If I put a large flood light in the run and at 8:00pm it shuts off all of a sudden what are my chickens going to do?
I then thought that I would have to put another light in the coop so they know where they should go when it got really dark all of a sudden.
How well can a chicken see at night and will they be able to find there way back into the coop when the lights go out.
How has everyone else solved this problem? or is it a problem?
I am thinking about lighting my coop and run as the fall and winter are approaching. I want to have lights on from 7:00am until maybe 8:00pm? I was wondering how to sequence the operation of the lights.
If I put a large flood light in the run and at 8:00pm it shuts off all of a sudden what are my chickens going to do?
I then thought that I would have to put another light in the coop so they know where they should go when it got really dark all of a sudden.
How well can a chicken see at night and will they be able to find there way back into the coop when the lights go out.
How has everyone else solved this problem? or is it a problem?

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