My experience with my d'Anvers is the roos that we have hand-raised are very sweet and will follow you around like puppies, but are not much on being handled during the day. They are more inclined to cooperate with handling when they start roosting in the evening. Additionally, all our hand-raised chicks (d'Uccle and d'Anvers) are trained to step up on our hand. The roos that we haven't hand raised/were raised by their mama hens are more territorial and will sneak up behind us and try to attack, but shooing them off is pretty trivial. One even likes to be picked up after he attacks--just a plea for attention maybe? The hens are all incredibly sweet, love to be held and constantly have to be in the middle of whatever we are doing! Trying to weed with them "helping" is hilarious! Last year we were tilling some new garden beds and every time we stopped the tiller the little hens would dive under the tines to see if any bugs were under there. We would have to shoo them all out before we could start up the tiller again. Took us twice as long to finish the job with all our chicken "helpers."
