Los Angeles and greater area: heater for winter?

[Kurakurakulaku]

Just wondering if I need to invest on any heating system for the coop?? I remember the coldest night was around high 30s and low 40s last year. Will they be ok without any heater?

 

[Percheron chick]

More than ok.
That's pretty much perfect chicken weather.

 

[rosemarythyme]

Chickens can survive without heat well below freezing. You're nowhere close to that. Only thing adding heat would do is add an extra fire risk, for zero payoff.

 

[BleuSaphir]

I live in Palmdale area. It HOT in summer time and COLD in winter time. My past chicken survived fine in a open air style coop.

The only thing I had to pay attention is to make sure their water bowl didn’t freeze or break up and remove the ice layer of their water bowl. The most tedious work ever. lol

 

[3KillerBs]

Chickens -- with the exception of baby chicks, and the possible exception of very small bantams and birds with non-standard feathering -- are usually fine all the way down to 0F as long as they are dry and out of the wind.

They're wearing built-in down parkas, after all.

 

[IdyllwildAcres]

I live in the mountains in So Cal where it snows, my chicken house linked in my profile is very open air. I brood chicks under a heat plate in the coop in the spring with overnight temps in the 30's Otherwise no heat. I do need to take steps to keep the water from freezing.