My husband is awesome!!!!

[Jolyn]

He got home from work tonight and put a light in my coop with a timer set to it. He is sooooooo good to my girls.

We have it set to go on at six in the morning and go off at 8 at night! The coop looks very cool out there with the lights shinning through the vent!!

 

[Year of the Rooster]

I know! We have a red light in ours for our chicks at night. We built the Chick Chalet ( http://www.chickchalet.com/ ) but with a plywood floor, and when the lights are on, it looks like a giant coop-shaped pumpkin

 

[lurky]

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Why do you run the light all day? I set my timer to go on at 4:30 pm til 9 pm.
It seems like a waste of electricity/$$$ to run lights during the day when its already light

 

[countryboy]

Awesome, cook him his favorite meal.

 

[WriterofWords]

It's so nice to see an awesome hubby! I knew they were out there somewhere!

 

[s6bee]

We used to turn our light on at 3 or 4 a.m and it went off when it was around 8 a.m. and the sun was up. I only ran it a little while. Then they went to roost for the night with the natural sunset. No need to run it all day.

 

[bubbazmommy]

My chickens didn't start going into the coop at night until I put a light in as well. I run mine from 6am to 8pm b/c we covered the windows when we winterized and it is way to dark without it. They seem much happier now as well.

 

[Jolyn]

Well i thought because it is mostly gray here in the winter it would be good to have the light on during the day. Most days there isn't a lot of sunshine. Was i wrong in thinking that they should have the light on in the coop on cloudy gray days?

 

[bubbazmommy]

It looks like it a preference thing. Both your preference as well as theirs.

 

[Jolyn]

I am just hoping to keep a few of them laying this winter.