Patent ID: 9578858
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: A01K,F21V,F21Y

Claim:
1. A method for lighting a chicken coop, the method comprising: arranging white beads and yellow beads in a predetermined alternating manner to form a plurality of hybrid LED lightings, an individual hybrid LED lighting of the plurality of hybrid LED lightings comprising one or more white beads and one or more yellow beads, the plurality of hybrid LED lightings mounted in a closed or semi-open chicken coop, a ratio of the one or more white beads and the one or more yellow beads in the individual hybrid LED lighting ranging from 0.2 to 5 is 0.2an average light intensity of the plurality of hybrid LED lightings on underside of chicken cages or a floor associated with the closed or semi-open chicken coop ranging from about 5 to about 30 Lux; in response to a determination of a closed farming mode, exposing chickens to light of the plurality of hybrid LED lightings for about 10 to 20 hours per day during a fattening period in the closed or semi-open chicken coop; and In response to a determination of a semi-open farming mode, exposing the chickens to natural light in a daytime and to the light of the plurality of hybrid LED lightings for about 4 to 10 hours at a night during the fattening period in the closed or semi-open chicken coop, wherein, after the chickens are fed for a predetermined time period, a weight gain of the chickens exposed to the plurality of hybrid LED lightings is greater than a weight gain of chickens exposed to a plurality of only white LED lightings or a plurality of only yellow LED lightings.