Lighting system for poultry houses

A lighting system for a poultry house to control the amount of light and the intensity of light available to poultry in the poultry house during a poultry production cycle comprising

• a poultry house having a ceiling and a floor, at least two straight lines of a plurality of unitary feeders,
• at least two straight lines of a plurality of lights adapted to be raised and lowered in relation to the floor of the poultry house and the plurality of unitary feeders, wherein the lights are adapted to be in a raised position in the range of about 96 inches to 16 inches above the plurality of unitary feeders during the early stages of the poultry production cycle and in a lowered position in the later stages of the poultry production cycle, wherein the early stages of the poultry production cycle comprise at least the first seven days of the cycle,
• and the plurality of lights adapted to control the amount of light and the intensity of light provided to the poultry at the plurality of feeders at predetermined times during the poultry production cycle,
• wherein the at least two straight lines of the plurality of lights are adapted to be suspended from the ceiling approximately a foot away in a horizontal direction from a respective at least two straight lines of a plurality of unitary feeders.