That's because they're girls and do well with that treatment. Cockerels are different, everything is body language and flock position. Making pets of cockerels rarely helps but it might not be necessarily your fault, some are just human aggressive. But generally, hands off of cockerels since i
It's more likely to happen to birds that were coddled and petted as chicks. He wasn't being 'sweet', he was showing you he wasn't afraid of you and was testing bounderies.