PhysLite Original Series

Chicken King’s
Poultry Talk

A bright aisle can hide dark feeders.

Hosted by Chicken King Alfie, we come down to bird height, measure the light where birds actually feed and drink, and compare fixture layouts with the same meter grid. Made for the person who walks the house and has to decide what to fix first.

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Chicken King Alfie, host of Chicken King's Poultry TalkHOSTED BY CHICKEN KING ALFIE

What EP000 covers

Four checks you can take back to the house

One idea runs through the whole channel: measure where the bird is, not where you stand.

01 / BIRD HEIGHT

Look under the rail

From standing height you see the top of the rail. From bird height, that rail can cut a shadow across the feeding line — especially on the lower tier.

02 / UNIFORMITY

The lowest number matters

A row of lux readings works like six cups under a sprinkler. The average tells you how the row looks; the lowest reading tells you where to walk back and look again.

03 / LAYOUTS

Compare like with like

Spaced bulbs, tubes and a chain of light points. Lock the camera exposure and take readings at the same spots before drawing a conclusion.

04 / ENERGY

Check the power math

EP000 example: 50 × 9 W = 450 W bulbs, 90 × 6 W = 540 W tubes, 90 × 3 W = 270 W chain nodes. Equal run time, fixture loads only.

Technical note. All lux, photoperiod and wattage figures shown here are illustrative examples used in EP000, not recommendations. On a real farm, match the program to flock stage, breed guidance, body weight where applicable, local rules and welfare requirements; measure input power with the driver in circuit; and reserve uniformity claims for matched meter grids.

The short cut

EP000 in one minute

The same farm check in a 9:16 vertical edit — the hook, the bird-height view, the six-point meter grid and one question to take back to your own house. Made for short-form platforms.

01:02 · 9:16 vertical

The series

Episodes

Every episode of Chicken King’s Poultry Talk lives on this page. New episodes are added at the top as they are released.

EP000 Check the Dark Spots
EP000 · Available now

Check the Dark Spots

Meet Alfie. A channel introduction that starts at bird height, shows how to find dim spots on a feeder row, compares three fixture layouts and walks through the power math.

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In production
EP001 · In production

Why Bright Poultry Houses Still Have Dark Spots

Bulbs, tubes and LED chains compared on the same bird-height measurement grid, then the weakest points checked before changing a layout or comparing power costs.

Coming soon
On the roadmap
Future episodes

Field visits, programs and product details

Full lighting programs by flock type, measured field results and a closer look at tube lighting in a multi-tier house.

Planned

Planned topics from EP000

  • Full lighting programs, split out by flock type
  • Field results, walking the rows with farm managers
  • Product details and how to read a spectrum chart
  • A closer look at tube lighting in a multi-tier house

About the channel

Who is behind the crown

A practical video channel about light in poultry houses — built for the people who have to make the call on the floor.

Chicken King Alfie

Chicken King Alfie, your host

Alfie is the Chicken King — a calm, seasoned host who would rather walk the row than guess from the doorway. In each episode he starts with the problem a farm team can actually see, explains the principle in plain language, then shows the check, the reading and the comparison.

The format is always the same: pain point → principle → solution → measured check. Cameras are locked, meter positions are recorded, and any number shown on screen is labelled as an example or a measured value.

Made for teams raising:

PulletsBroilersLayersBreeders
PhysLiteChicken King’s Poultry Talk is sponsored by PhysLite, the poultry welfare tetrachromat lighting company. Learn more about PhysLite ↗

Join the conversation

Where would you put the meter first in your house?

Alfie asks it at the end of every episode. If you have already checked, share your lowest lux reading and where you found it — that is the number that tells you where to walk back and look again.

Follow Chicken King’s Poultry Talk for the next farm check. Links to LinkedIn and short-form platforms will be added as they go live.

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