Supplemental lighting in coop (should you?)

It's winter and the chicken coop is full but your egg basket is empty. You're still filling up the feeders for these freeloading featherballs but they're not paying their keep in eggs. Spring feels like it's a long ways away, but what to do about this egg void in the meantime? You've probably considered lighting the chicken coop.

Lots of people talk about how they add lights to the chicken coop and "voila" egg production comes back! Does it really work that way though? Well, yeah it sorta does. I had lights in my coop way back in the beginning when I first started raising chickens. I did this for 2 or 3 years before I quit. It really wasn't worth the hassle. However, I jotted down some notes on my experience and I'm here to tell you everything I learned about lighting the chickens coop in winter.

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