lovethatgrey Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 Insightful info here http://www.hagen.com/hari/docu/shedding_light.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray P Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 Great article. A need to know for everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRSeedBurners Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 Great article - thx for posting. One thing I was looking for in there was amount of outdoor time, maybe I missed it as I was speed reading it. Can't seem to find any consensus on how much outdoor light is optimal or minimal. We put our birds out around 8am which means the arc of the sun is lower and they can only be out there for an hour or maybe a little more before they become cooked chickens (at least right now when we're hitting 100+ daily). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danmcq Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 (edited) An hour of sunlight outdoors a day is much better than zero. Then add a good avian light like a Avian Sun 5.0 over there cage to provide good lighting the rest of the day. If it's not too hot, we keep our birds out for around 4 hours until it becomes too hot. As we being fall, we will have them outdoors up to 8 hours. Of course optimal, would be a grey outdoors from dawn to dusk just as they are in the wild. Edited August 8, 2013 by danmcq Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave007 Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 1998--15 yrs ago. Information has been updated. Methods for success has been posted. People have tried out different things with success and failure. People have posted about this subject. Read the sticky in the Health Room sticky area. That's why newer information is posted as a sticky. http://www.greyforums.net/forums/showthread.php?157511-UVB-LIGHTING-IT-S-IMPORTANCE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovethatgrey Posted August 9, 2013 Author Share Posted August 9, 2013 Thanks Dave. I've read the stickies. Even if this info may have been posted years ago, I do believe much of it is still very relevant and useful information for our present situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kins2321@yahoo.com Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 I always trust older info. My life as a nurse always adds new info, but ultimately, I find us always going back and changing things back to the way we use to do things. Just new info Nancy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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