Chickens Tips & Saving Money

Hint on Chickens:

If you want them to lay in the (all) winter, put a 40-60 watt light bulb in their house, and it needs to be on 14 hrs a day, or the chicken will stop laying as daylight lessen. I know this works because I have done it for years, and I'm one of the few in my area that has eggs in the winter. We put our chicken light on a timer, the ones you can hook to lamps in your house, and it works great. With the amount of power the light uses is still cheaper than buying yucky store eggs.

Saving Money:

Hot water heaters: we flip the braker off at bed time, so as it does not heat water all night, when no one is using it. And at times I flip it off during the day. In the morning, the water is still warm just not hot. They make a heavy duty timer (like above for the hot water heater), which we hope to some day get. But flipping the braker did make a difference in our power bill.
Have a great day.
Becky

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Comments:

We just bought a timer for our hot water tank this past Saturday to see if it would cut down on our electric bill. We have it set for it to go on at a little before 4am in the morning…DH gets up at 4 to get ready for work. That seems to be enough hot water for the kids to get a shower when they get up at a little after 8 or so. Then I just turn it on about 15 minutes before I am ready to get a shower or dishes need to be done. The timer was $40 at Home Depot. Comment by Pamspride | September 25, 2008 |