This is my chicken Puffer.  She is the first Araucana chicken we ever got, and she was actually an accident!  I had wanted a silver laced Wyandot but when my husband went to pick the chicks up, the silver laced weren't available.  The woman at the counter gave him a couple of "mystery chicks" and indicated to him that one of them was really special.

It was soon apparent that Puffer was the special one.  Not only did she have a funny looking 'puffy face' but she didn't scatter with the rest of the chicks when you walked up to the box.  She was always there at the opening, nosing around at what you were doing, and she started eating out of the cup before we poured it.  All of the rest of them scrambling as far away as possible...she never became part of the flock.

After a few months of her coming to the chicken wire wall and talking to us, I decided to pick her up and talk back to her.

This is us relaxing on the bench in front of the barn back then.  For a while then, I started becoming suspiscious that she was losing weight.  I feared that she was being bullied.  I read up on the matter, and found out that her tail never being 'up' was a symptom of a sick or unhappy chicken (I, stupidly had thought it was a characteristic of this strange breed we got on accident). So...I did the only thing I could do and moved her out...for what we thought would be short term.