Need coop plans

[7acres]

Used 1" dry wall screws and ordered washers(.18 ID x .75 OD-91090A101) from McMaster Carr.

Thanks

 

[aart]

Reading pros and cons on coop lighting. What works?

Supplemental lighting for winter laying?
Yep, there's pros and cons....and no guarantees.
Basically, you want to provide 14-15 hours of daylight spectrum lighting using a timer for consistency. I have mine coming on at 3-5 am and going off at about 2pm so they go to roost with the real sun.

 

[pennyJo1960]

See here it gets dark at 4 now I use a light in the winter but on 8am off at 9pm
they stay in the coop from dusk till morning some will eat before I close it at night

 

[7acres]

Not so much worried about the laying. Saw several things about red and white lights. Wattage. Regular and LED. Health problems changing lighting. Sometimes you can read to much. So what work for you. I have an 8 x 8 coop. Thanks.

 

[aart]

Not so much worried about the laying......Sometimes you can read to much.

Then you don't need lighting.
Yes, you can.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Not so much worried about the laying. Saw several things about red and white lights. Wattage. Regular and LED. Health problems changing lighting. Sometimes you can read to much. So what work for you. I have an 8 x 8 coop. Thanks.

What are you trying to accomplish with lights?

 

[pennyJo1960]

Artificial light may help birds to lay through winter instead of stopping my old girls are use to light still stop only pullets lay a bit in the winter so I do not need to store buy any

 

[7acres]

They are about 11 weeks old. Just moved to coop. Had the shutters closed until finished building HW cloth screens. Dark in coop. Run not finished to turn out. How much light during day in dark coop?

 

[Ridgerunner]

That makes sense. How much daylight are you getting, sunrise to sunset? I'd use that as a guide.

 

[pennyJo1960]

They are about 11 weeks old. Just moved to coop. Had the shutters closed until finished building HW cloth screens. Dark in coop. Run not finished to turn out. How much light during day in dark coop?

I only give between 8 and 12 hours any day