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Yup. That's why I raised my big girls in the house and handled them from day one. I gather the OP did as well. My skittish roo was an unwanted gift. I got the pullets knowing they would be a project.

All my girls will do that with me, but I have to squat down because they are not nearly agile enough to make it up there as gracefully as that rooster did. And heaven help me if more than one of them tries to jump up at the same time. I love my girls but they are not lightweights! That...

Yours ask to be let out? How polite of them. Mine demand.

I'm not sure what you are saying here. Perhaps I just don't understand it as you have written it. I believe you are saying that, while the bird will express stress from being caught, that it will be short-lived and that the handler will have the opportunity to create a positive experience...

I think that ideally you would keep him completely away from and out of sight of the girls so that he forgets about them. That way you wouldn't be competing with his natural instinct to want to be with them. Any chance you could borrow a good-sized dog crate from someone? I imagine that a...

To the OP. By comparison, I have a bantam D'uccle roo that my sister "gifted" to us. He was young, not used to being handled, and flighty. He acted very much the same way you describe your roo and my sister cares for her chickens very much the same way your landlady does. I didn't do...

You're probably right in that he's frightened of humans, but that is the very definition of untamed. A domesticated animal can still be untamed--look at feral dogs, chickens, cats, etc. Their species have been domesticated yet there are individuals that are extremely fearful of humans. Those...

I am currently working on the same issue with two pullets that I recently purchased at a show. They came from a large flock situation, have not been handled much, and what handling they did receive probably gave them a pretty crappy opinion of being handled. I have a background in behavior...