The most important thing is that there are no strong drafts blowing in. You'll find that a chicken fairs far better in bitter weather than in the heat. Anything over 90 degrees calls for some extra measures to keep them alive.
All should do great with the cold. I hope.
I am hoping they don't notice or let it slide lol.
My coop is 5x6. Unfortunately, again, my ordinance states that the coop can only be 30sq ft. :-/ Originally the council members said 25sq ft and we had to push to get that 30sq ft size. As it is I am not including the nest boxes in my sq ft area
Ha... I'd make it 30 feet long and a foot wide to be sure they could see it.
Wouldn't it have been nice if they had actually put a little thought into it and made it 32 square feet? The size of a sheet of plywood or siding?
Check out the book in the link below. I built my coop based on the one in the book. You can read on pgs 24-5, about people in Canada keeping chickens in open-air uninsulated coops, with -40 degree temps. Unless you have some kind of thinly feathered exotic bird, chickens can handle the cold. Insulation, as far as cold weather goes, is useless in a coop. Your coop is not going to be shut up tight, like your house, to keep heat in. Even in winter, you should have lots of ventilation/fresh air exchange in the coop. So insulating it is pointless. Now, I can see the benefit of insulating the roof, to help absorb summertime heat, but other than that, no. If you seen anybody's chickens freeze to death, it was probably because they were being kept in a poorly ventilated box. Chickens put out a lot of moisture, just by breathing. If, in the winter, you don't have proper ventilation, that moisture will collect and freeze on the birds, causing frostbite, and maybe even freezing them to death.
