If I did lights I would totally do the coop over the house! I wonder though would it attract more predators???
I put up lights a few months ago when my older neighbour was going to look after the chickens for a few days. They are on a dawn/dusk timer set for 4 hours. It's pretty and it really helps when you're out there after dark. I think it scares away racoons too. I'll try to get a picture tonight.
We have a 10" x 40' rectangular run that I run white Christmas rope lights on. Looks pretty cool and helps seeing down there at night too. I don't have any pics, and now that I have two coops with timers, I'll have to figure out where I'm going to plug them in. Not to mention, a few bulbs broke( the lights are almost translucent, so I just leave them up all year) so I'll have to see if they even still work. I hope so, it was alot of work to put them up. I'll post some pics if I get some soon.
Quote:We have a manufactered home, with one lousy outdoor outlet, in the front of the house, no less. One of the plugs powers our little "mini"shop with an underground super heavy duty extension cord. The other, I run an extension cord down to the chickens, and from there, I have a 3 headed extension cord, that has two timers plugged into it. It is not as overloaded as it sounds I'm thinking that since all the chickens have been cramming themselves into one coop, maybe i'll use that plug. Sorry, just kind of figured that out as I was typing, lol.
