Lights and laying

[Smiller1090]

Anyone use Christmas lights to encourage laying through the winter and it work? I currently do not have wiring running to my coop and run, that is a next summer project

 

[CanadaEh]

how far your Christmas lights going to be away from the coop and are the windows in the coop big enough to allow enough of light on top of their heads? Or are you talking about placing battery operated Christmas lights insider the coop?

 

[aart]

I don’t plan to put lights inside the coop.

They need to be in the coop over the roost,
unless your run is open to them all the time and the feed is there too,
and on a timer for daily consistency(which usually means 110v power).

 

[Smiller1090]

how far your Christmas lights going to be away from the coop and are the windows in the coop big enough to allow enough of light on top of their heads? Or are you talking about placing battery operated Christmas lights insider the coop?

I have a roof covered run and the coop is inside that, I will try to get a picture to upload. I’m planning to run the lights all the way around the top of the run on the inside. There are two coop windows which have awnings over them from before I got the run finished but I will be removing the awnings so more light can get in. I don’t plan to put lights inside the coop. The door open in the picture is the egg collection door so it will be closed. I will try to get better pictures of the windows later