Ontario Chick wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2019 12:18 pm
Interesting, by spending way too much time with my chickens, I have observed that light on or not, the are all on the roost by 7.30 pm latest in fall and winter.
So the timer is set to turn off the lights at 8pm and it goes on early enough so the "hired help" has lights on when closing the barn, so actually we light the "keeper" rather then the chickens.
They lay reasonably well thru the winter with this system.
For years, Oliver has been putting his 'girls to roost every night, regardless of the season, at 5:30pm. In the summer I have been known to get them up and out of the coops. He stands there, calls them, then goes into the hen house and up on the roost he goesk and perches. Just sayin, every day for the last eight years
