[ANSTHRLD] Or, a Hen purpure

[Crandall]

A Buckeye (breed) is nut brown. They are a 19th century breed from Ohio. 
http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/chooks/chooks.html 

A Rhode Island Red is also a dark brown.  


"In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong." -John Kenneth Galbraith


--- On Tue, 2/15/11, Bill Butler <chemistbb3 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Bill Butler <chemistbb3 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [ANSTHRLD] Or, a Hen purpure
> To: " Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA Inc.Heralds List" <heralds at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 6:54 PM
> OK, educational opportunity here.
> 
> Is a brown hen a heraldic type of hen?  
> 
> As far as I know, "brown" is not a breed of chicken. 
> (It's been a long time since my 4-H county fair days
> though.)  If it is not a recognized breed or a heraldic
> breed, then I would not think that you could do a hen
> "proper" as there could be many variations, depending of the
> breed. 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> William
> 
> --- On Tue, 2/15/11, John Atkinson <johnmatkinson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: John Atkinson <johnmatkinson at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [ANSTHRLD] Or, a Hen purpure
> > To: "Heralds List, Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc."
> <heralds at lists.ansteorra.org>
> > Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 3:58 PM
> > Asking for a conflict check on this
> > one.
> > 
> > Argent, a brown hen proper looks clear too?
> > 
> > Also, purpure, a hen or looks clear, but I'm less sure
> of
> > that.
> > 
> > It's also entirely possible I'm hallucinating or
> missing
> > something obvious.
> > 
> > Ioannes
> > -- 
> > "Thousands of Sarmatians, Thousands of Franks, we've
> slain
> > them again and
> > again.  We're looking for thousands of Persians."
> > --Vita Aureliani
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