Posted by Hal/Eastern WA on October 21, 2012 at 13:02:55 from (97.115.131.104):
In Reply to: Lights in the hen house posted by Dave Sherburne NY on October 20, 2012 at 19:12:04:
It puzzles me why they would put a teflon coating on a light bulb? The teflon coatings I have seen on various things were opaque, or nearly so, and I don"t understand how such a coating would help a light bulb. It sure would make a light bulb slicker, but they always have seemed slick enough without any coating. Hmmm!
When I was a kid, we had chickens all the time. And through the darker part of the year, we had lights in the chicken house to help keep the hens laying. Our lights were regular light bulbs, with reflectors about 3 or 4 feet off the floor. The lights were controlled with a clockwork timer that my Dad would set to give the hens a specific amount of light and then a smaller amount of light to approximate sundown, to get the chickens to get on the roost. When it was extremely cold, we would leave the lights on all the time, to keep the water from freezing. It worked just fine.
Electricity was very cheap then, and we didn"t think much about using a lot of it. 100 watt bulbs were only about 25 cents, and they lasted quite a while in the hen house. I don"t remember ever breaking a bulb, or the chickens ever breaking one.
I think if I was going to raise chickens today, I would try using fluorescent lights, or possibly compact fluorescent bulbs in conventional fixtures. I don"t know if there would be problems with corrosion of the metal parts from the ammonia in the air, but I think it would be worth a try. It would use less energy than regular bulbs, but more important to me would be the long bulb life of the fluorescents.
If you want hens to continue to lay eggs, you need to supplement the natural light, to fool their "biological clocks" into forgetting it is Winter.
I still wonder about why someone would coat a light bulb with teflon...doesn"t make sense to me!
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