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 flock animal feels a fair amount of stress being kept away from its flock. I would imagine that there is a peak in that stress and then over time as the animal adapts to being alone, the stress dissipates. A stressed animal cannot learn. In a stressed animal, the hindbrain (instinctive) is hugely active and its forebrain (cognitive) is not really activated. You want a stress-free, thinking animal for optimal learning. In order to bring him in for a while every day, you will have to catch him, or at least herd him where you want him. That in and of itself will probably be such a stressful experience that it will negate anything you try and do to build a positive response to you.
In retrospect, I should have done the same thing with my roo that I'm doing with the pullets. I should have kept him in the garage completely separate from my girls until I had conditioned the response to me that I wanted before putting him out with the flock. Actually, the little bugger has started to grow on me, so I suppose there's no real reason I couldn't try it now.
I imagine that a flock animal feels a fair amount of stress being kept away from its flock. I would imagine that there is a peak in that stress and then over time as the animal adapts to being alone, the stress dissipates. A stressed animal cannot learn. In a stressed animal, the hindbrain (instinctive) is hugely active and its forebrain (cognitive) is not really activated. You want a stress-free, thinking animal for optimal learning. In order to bring him in for a while every day, you will have to catch him, or at least herd him where you want him. That in and of itself will probably be such a stressful experience that it will negate anything you try and do to build a positive response to you.
In retrospect, I should have done the same thing with my roo that I'm doing with the pullets. I should have kept him in the garage completely separate from my girls until I had conditioned the response to me that I wanted before putting him out with the flock. Actually, the little bugger has started to grow on me, so I suppose there's no real reason I couldn't try it now.