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Quote: I'll betcha they do just fine. Chickens tolerate cold alot better than they tolerate heat. No drafts, dry coop, they do just fine.

Quote: Have any of the touchlights handy. Battery operated, usually round like the moon and you press on the center of them to turn them on, those sort of lights. You can put one on in the coop a little before dusk and turn it off after everyone's settled inside. If something like that...

The other choice of course is to build a coop that takes advantage of all the natural light available. I have two large windows in my coop - one is 4'H x 8'L, one is 4'H x approx. 5' L. No artificial light in my coop and the girls lay just fine. If I need to go out there at night, I figure...