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For those of you who use timers for lighting, how long do you make your daylight length?

i dont know about other people on here. but i set my for 7am and turns off at 8p.m. at night. gives them about 13 hours daylight.

Mine get around 13+ hours of light also(breeding)

Mine get around 14 hours when breeding, but when not, I pretty much do dawn to dusk.

My birds have light from 5:30 morning until whatever time it gets dark at night. I switch off their lights about six in the evening, but there is plenty of light still in the sunroom, so they roost when they get ready. The goulds are always the first to go to the trees.

My lights come on 10 minutes (5AM) before I come downstairs in the morning, so I can then feed them before I leave for work. And they turn off at 7:20PM and at that time it's dusk here and they settle down to sleep. I have tiny chistmas lights on the back of their cages, that turn on 5 minutes before the big lights go out, and stay on until 5:10AM.

I've been doing 7:30 am to 9:30 pm (14 hours). I did have the lights go off after 13 hours but I wanted that extra hour to be able to watch them.

breeding season 18 hours light

resting period 14 hours light

seems long but i'm doing / did this for ages already , a good african breeder here that could get young ones with whatever bird taught me that and i never changed it .

Ray

I've been doing 8:30am to 10:30 PM. Guess not long enough since I have GBs. I think I'll have it come on at 7 and go off at 11pm. Gives me more time to enjoy them, too.