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[Bethel_Alaska]

For getting your chickens to go to bed, I wonder if a light on a timer in the coop would indicate it was time for them to go in and roost. Light comes on, they go inside and roost. Light goes off one hour later. My coop has a timer that comes on at 5:30 and goes off at 8:30 - those hours are dark during the winter, so that is how I lengthen their daylight hours. They pretty much know when that light is going to go off and are all on the roost by 8:15. Even when it is still light outside.

Chickens don't like to enter a dark coop.

Ok that sounds like a great idea I will give it a try a timer shoot I think I need a timer myself with the 18+ hours of daylight I can’t seem to get myself self to bed at a decent hour no matter how hard I try it’s midnight and still shining bright full of energy. We have had chickens before but we lived in San Diego so it’s much much different here in Bethel Alaska vs San Diego

 

[Henriettamom919]

Ok that sounds like a great idea I will give it a try a timer shoot I think I need a timer myself with the 18+ hours of daylight I can’t seem to get myself self to bed at a decent hour no matter how hard I try it’s midnight and still shining bright full of energy. We have had chickens before but we lived in San Diego so it’s much much different here in Bethel Alaska vs San Diego

Bless your heart! I'd have a hard time, too. Shoot, we live North of Seattle and I can't get to bed before midnight and its plenty dark then!

 

[Bethel_Alaska]

Bless your heart! I'd have a hard time, too. Shoot, we live North of Seattle and I can't get to bed before midnight and its plenty dark then!

Awe thank you bless your heart also.. I know what you mean I lived in Portland for 20+ years but man this here is something different our little girl doesn’t understand that just cuz the sun is out doesn’t mean it’s not time for bed she says the sun is shining I am like but it’s 11:30 time for bed lol

 

[Henriettamom919]

Awe thank you bless your heart also.. I know what you mean I lived in Portland for 20+ years but man this here is something different our little girl doesn’t understand that just cuz the sun is out doesn’t mean it’s not time for bed she says the sun is shining I am like but it’s 11:30 time for bed lol

Shoot, my 13 year old daughter doesn't get that just because it's sunny until 10pm doesn't mean school night bedtime has changed

My uncle lives in Fairbanks and my hubby lived in Alaska for over a year as a teen. What brought you to the frozen North?

 

[Bethel_Alaska]

Shoot, my 13 year old daughter doesn't get that just because it's sunny until 10pm doesn't mean school night bedtime has changed

My uncle lives in Fairbanks and my hubby lived in Alaska for over a year as a teen. What brought you to the frozen North?

My boyfriends grandmother owns a bed and breakfast here and she actually hurt herself in 2017 so we have been coming here since November 2017 off and on but officially moved here last year in August grandma also just turned 88 she has had this bed and breakfast for 25+years so we were available to come and take over and look after all her property’s it’s more like a hotel we hav 25 rooms and serve a home cooked breakfast in the mornings

 

[Henriettamom919]

My boyfriends grandmother owns a bed and breakfast here and she actually hurt herself in 2017 so we have been coming here since November 2017 off and on but officially moved here last year in August grandma also just turned 88 she has had this bed and breakfast for 25+years so we were available to come and take over and look after all her property’s it’s more like a hotel we hav 25 rooms and serve a home cooked breakfast in the mornings

When can I come visit ?

Sounds lovely! We moved back to my childhood home about six years ago when my mom's breast cancer returned so I could get her to and from Seattle for radiation/chemo/surgeries. She passed this last October and I'm so grateful for the time we got to have even if it was hard being a caregiver while raising my own children.

You're doing an amazing thing

 

[Bethel_Alaska]

When can I come visit ?

Sounds lovely! We moved back to my childhood home about six years ago when my mom's breast cancer returned so I could get her to and from Seattle for radiation/chemo/surgeries. She passed this last October and I'm so grateful for the time we got to have even if it was hard being a caregiver while raising my own children.

You're doing an amazing thing

Anytime lol...

Awe that is so amazing of you to care for your mom I am so sorry to hear of your loss I also lost my mother 2 years ago I as well was her caregiver and raising my little one it was challenging but so much appreciated and grateful for the time and experience I got to have with my mama till the end we are special beings it takes a special people to to do what we have done for our loved ones.

You are amazing

 

[trumpeting_angel]

Amen to that!

You might ask other chicken folks in AK what they do about light in the summer and the winter. Or st the feed store? Maybe @Alaskan will chime in.

 

[Henriettamom919]

Amen to that!

You might ask other chicken folks in AK what they do about light in the summer and the winter. Or st the feed store? Maybe @Alaskan will chime in.

That's a great idea! Local farm folk will likely have lots of good advice on how to deal with the ever fluctuating sunlight up there! I wonder what chickens think of northern lights?

 

[Bethel_Alaska]

Amen to that!

You might ask other chicken folks in AK what they do about light in the summer and the winter. Or st the feed store? Maybe @Alaskan will chime in.

Yes that would be a good idea as far as feed store there is not anything like that here we are in a very rural part of Alaska western Alaska Bethel is a hub for 50 surrounding villages lol I do have a friend here that has some chickens I totally forgot I could ask them geez silly me