How do you do winter light?

[aart]

It's worse for the birds because they can detect the flicker even better than humans.

True but thought I'd read that the new ones were OK for them....can't find it now.
Old tubes went 60 cycles per second......new ones between 10,000 and 40,000 cycles per second.
Too fast for our eye...but not sure about birds.
CFL I used didn't drive my birds nuts so.....<shrugs>

 

[lazy gardener]

True but thought I'd read that the new ones were OK for them....can't find it now.
Old tubes went 60 cycles per second......new ones between 10,000 and 40,000 cycles per second.
Too fast for our eye...but not sure about birds.
CFL I used didn't drive my birds nuts so.....<shrugs>

Aart, I used 7W CFL last 2 years, and production was good. If I use light this year, will try LED, but was happy with the CFL. the UMO publication that I provided a link to had a section that outlined use of CFL for poultry.

 

[GC-Raptor]

This is what I use.

It's a dimmable 40 watt equivalent daylight LED, uses only 7 watts. On at 5am, dimmed at 9am. It's stays dimmed till a half hour after sunset, or when I get home, which ever is later, so the chickens can see to jump up to the roost. I turn it off when I lock up the coop. No bright light after sunset. I get over 12 dozen eggs a month from 5 - 33 week old sex-links. It's important to know light by itself will not get maximum egg production. Proper nutrition is also important. I also light up the pen in the morning at 5am with 2 - 60 watt equivalent LEDs.

GC