Well when we had a lot of chickens we always heated the coops to keep them a reasonable temperature. Usually like it to be above 30 degrees for the low.
IF it gets 20 below tonight and they have an open door on the coop you may not have any problem tomorrow morning other than stiff frozen chickens.
Any animal that is producing food can only consume and convert so much energy. So if they are having to use a lot of the energy they create to stay warm you will not get many eggs or much meat on the chickens.
The things I would do if they where mine:
1) Get a heated water bowl. You can get heated ones for under $20.
2) Seal up the coop for cold weather. The number of chickens you have are not enough to worry about ventilation in this kind of weather.
3) I would also provide some heat for them. Weather this is a whole coop heat or heat bulbs but I would get them some heat. IF you search on line there are several companies making radiant Coop heaters.
4) Additional feed and/or higher protein feed so they are getting a higher energy food source. They can create more energy this way.
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