Christmas lights meet coop and run.

[Yard Farmer]

Oh no, that’s not good. Do you let your chickens free roam all day?

Sometimes, they stay in their pen till I have a chance to be out there with them.
The cat and the raccoon both broke into my coop/pen.

 

[pertnear09]

I decided this year to put christmas lights on my run and coop…. i think it came out pretty awesome!

They look nice. Have the chickens started caroling yet?

 

[CKfarm22]

They look nice. Have the chickens started caroling yet?

They carol all year long

 

[Mr Spot]

I just wonder if the extra light will change their daily clock and laying .

 

[CKfarm22]

I just wonder if the extra light will change their daily clock and laying .

I have an extra light in there for night time, it turns off at 8:30. Never effected them.

 

[Mr Spot]

I have an extra light in there for night time, it turns off at 8:30. Never effected them.

Ok, was just wondering.

 

[CKfarm22]

Ok, was just wondering.

Completely understandable, I’ve had some mixed reviews from people with using an “artificial” light. I have had it in there for over a year now, and to be completely honest i don’t think it messes with their “internal clock”. During the winter the light shuts off at 8:30, and they will stay out in the run anywhere between 7pm-8pm, and they’ll put themselves to sleep lol.

During the summer the light stays on until 9:30 but again they’ll go in when they want to!

 

[Mr Spot]

Completely understandable, I’ve had some mixed reviews from people with using an “artificial” light. I have had it in there for over a year now, and to be completely honest i don’t think it messes with their “internal clock”. During the winter the light shuts off at 8:30, and they will stay out in the run anywhere between 7pm-8pm, and they’ll put themselves to sleep lol.

During the summer the light stays on until 9:30 but again they’ll go in when they want to!

Back in the "stone age" long before internet and forums like this the people around here that raised chickens for just eggs to sale did have a small about a 40 watt light in the hen house, they would set the light timer in the short fall and winter days to come on about 4am and go off after daylight so it would wake them up earlier and get them eating and moving around rather than go off and leave them in the dark to find the roost. Looks like things have changed as everyone had got more modern. I never have done the light thing so I really don't know one way or the other to give my honest opinion.