Lighting coop for production

[IdyllwildAcres]

I have read through quite a few post on the subject of winter lighting for egg production and find myself firmly in the I am going to add lighting camp... My plan is to add light in the mornings so they go to roost as usual at night

So for those of you who light the coop this is my question, I went into the xmas lights and found a 100 string LED of white lights and a 50 string of red, which would you use?

Thanks in advance

Gary

 

[tacothechicken]

If its for early mornings id advise white seeing as although chickens have a wider range of visible light im not sure how theyd recognise the change early morning, whites alwayes worked for me. Then again ive always used single large bulbs on the nesting area or hung strip lights, no experience in string lighting sorry let us know how it works out

 

[lazy gardener]

Studies have shown that light in the red spectrum (warm light) has a more profound effect on laying than cool light does. But, I think that in the case of the red bulbs, the bulbs are just tinted. I'm not sure how that affects the spectrum output. If you do a google search on supplemental lighting spectrum for laying hens, I'm sure you'll find the study. I use warm light LED 3000K 9W for a 10 x 12 coop.

Here's a bit of information that may be more than you ever want to know!

http://web.uconn.edu/poultry/poultrypages/light_inset.html

 

[GC-Raptor]

This is what I use, . It's 5000 K. It simulates natural daylight. It's a 40 watt equivalent LED and uses 7 watts. I turn it on at 5 a.m. year round. Just a nightlight in the evening so they can see to get on the roosts. I lockup the coop turn off the nightlight about 20 minutes after sunset. My 5 first year sex-links laid through the winter 32/35 a week. I don't know what they will do this winter. They are 16 months old and have started a slow molt. I only got 26 eggs last week. You can see the difference in spectrum from this pic. . Look at the ground, the outside lights are warm spectrum and the under coop light is daylight spectrum. GC