layer vs grower feed

[evemfoster]

I'm not contradicting this as that is certainly what all the research I have read suggest, I just find it a little odd... At high noon, on a summer day, sea level, at the equator the light is give or take 6500K, that is the cool spectrum... The 3000K or so warm light is more so spring, fall, sunset, sunrise color... My guess is that the warm light is more so to trick them into thinking spring something would be their normal ancestral laying time...

As I said, I'm not arguing it I just find it odd being an indoor plant/flower grower... I (and many others) start all my seeds and young plants under 3000K light to simulate the early spring light conditions as as the plants grows I slowly transition them to pure 6500K light as that is beneficial for summer fruits/vegetable and flowering...

I start my plants under the same light conditions.

The warm light spectrum working better for chickens is what i read in this University of Maine Cooperative Extension Bulletin http://umaine.edu/publications/2227e/ It covers the lighting for all the stages of growth and gives pretty good explanations of why its is done. Its well worth bookmarking.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

Without additional light it may be February or March before you begin getting many eggs. Again depending on the breeds of chickens in your flock.

 

[MeepBeep]

I start my plants under the same light conditions. The warm light spectrum working better for chickens is what i read in this University of Maine Cooperative Extension Bulletin  http://umaine.edu/publications/2227e/   It covers the lighting for all the stages of growth and gives pretty good explanations of why its is done.  Its well worth bookmarking. 

Yeah, I read that article as well as many others, as I said I'm not arguing it... It's just a curiosity thing...

Not much argument with me about it working, I supplement my birds so they get the full 14 hours of light using warm light bulbs and don't have any issues... It actually gives me a place to use the warm light bulbs that I have collected over the years or can usually get cheaper, as I personally don't like warm light... The first thing I did when I moved into our new house is switch out every light to cool white, I then did the same to all the outbuildings and even the barns, the coop and the antique sodium vapor area lights on the property is the only things using warm light... That and the dining room light fixture that uses 54 (yes 54) candelabra bulbs... Right now I'm using C7 x-mas lights (night lights) in it as I got about 400 last year at Lowes on clearance for 10 cents a 5 pack after x-mas I keep wanting to switch it over to LEDs but just can't bit the bullet at about a bulk a bulb or more... When we moved in the previous tenants had 54 @ 40 watt bulbs in the darn thing, it was literally a blinding heat lamp and felt like you were on the beach when sitting at the table... At least now with 54 @ 7 watts it's manageable...

 

[pdirt]

I'm not contradicting this as that is certainly what all the research I have read suggest, I just find it a little odd... At high noon, on a summer day, sea level, at the equator the light is give or take 6500K, that is the cool spectrum... The 3000K or so warm light is more so spring, fall, sunset, sunrise color... My guess is that the warm light is more so to trick them into thinking spring something would be their normal ancestral laying time...

As I said, I'm not arguing it I just find it odd being an indoor plant/flower grower... I (and many others) start all my seeds and young plants under 3000K light to simulate the early spring light conditions as as the plants grows I slowly transition them to pure 6500K light as that is beneficial for summer fruits/vegetable and flowering...

A bit of a tangent...

There is an app named Flux that is available for Mac, Windows, Linux and iOS, to automatically adjust your screen's "warmth":

https://justgetflux.com/

Depending upon your time zone, Flux will make your screen colors in the 3000K range ("warm" red-orange) between sunset and sunrise and closer to the 6500K range during normal daylight hours. This helps with late night use of these devices so your screen isn't giving your brain the message that it is high noon at the equator. Getting such a message can make it challenging to fall asleep and/or get restful sleep. I've been using it for about 4 years now and it makes a huge difference in terms of my sleep quality and eyestrain. The warmth/coolness and timing of things are adjustable as well as a toggle switch for working with color sensitive projects like photo editing. It's free. This is probably the single most useful thing I have ever installed on my computer because it makes it so much more usable.

 

[MeepBeep]

This helps with late night use of these devices so your screen isn't giving your brain the message that it is high noon at the equator. Getting such a message can make it challenging to fall asleep and/or get restful sleep.

I'll have to look into it, but by nature I'm a night person and I have never held a normal sleep schedule... Since I'm a stay at home dad and not bound by a 9-5 work schedule, my normal hours of sleep are usually between the hours of 6am and 11am and it's not uncommon for me to skip a days sleep if I'm busy doing something (although skipping it getting harder as the years go by)... I don't think my body has any clue as to what the seasonal light patterns are anymore, but I have considered photo therapy a few times in the past so I might look into that software...