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No, your concern is if the humidity gets too HIGH. This can lead to frostbite on combs and wattles. That's why you want good ventilation, so humidity can escape. You don't want moisture forming on your ceiling and dripping down on your chickens.

Ventilation, as opposed to drafts, is good. You want air flow above the hens, not blowing on them. Drafts disturbing their feathers is bad. Feathers can't insulate if they are blown away ftom their bodies.
 
Mother of Chaos said:
The pop door is the little chicken-sized opening they go in and out of, as opposed to the people- or human-door.

No clue how it got that name!
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'Cuz it pops open in the morning and pops closed at night? Or because the chickens pop in and out of it? 🤷🏽‍♀️
 
Mother of Chaos said:
To add, the humidity comes from the chickens, from their breath and poop.
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The poop part is why we use horse bedding pellets. We have no ventilation, albeit an exhaust fan, and get by with it as there's no open water in the coop (nipple bucket), and the pellets absorb the moisture of the poop, which also eliminates smells. It's average 70% humidity here, and the coop is always lower than it is outside.
 

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