Friendly Roosters-

[Frazzemrat1]

Araucana are very calm as roosters. I haven't ever heard of an aggressive one.

My old araucana, I believe he was stolen (no animal tracks in fresh snow, no blood, no feathers) was the best. Perfect gentleman to the girls, tolerated my daughter struggle snuggling with them. Never reacted in an aggressive way or gave an alarm call (unless startled) to a human or my dog.

 

[varidgerunner]

If you want friendly roosters get breeds that have been selected for thousands of years for intensive human handling, instead of breeds that have been selected for hundreds of years for egg and meat production, or fancy feathering.

For house chickens, or a single rooster as a riding partner, fishing buddy, agricultural awareness events like centrachid showed pictures of, there is no substitute for a game rooster. I have taken a recently penned stag that was free range reared wild in the woods, after merely being caught and penned, not handled, and gone to such events. The birds would typically perch on a towel on my knee and be descended on by busloads of agritourists, children included. I could turn them loose, and later walk over and pick them up off the ground, place them on a perch and walk away, let people hold and pet them. Born naturally tame, even when raised wild.

When raised historically for their historical purposes, human aggressive tendencies were intensively culled for, they had to be handled by humans, and conditioned, and they had to be kept by themselves in a pen and cared for, so human aggressive roosters were not desirable. They are also very long lived, 25 year lifespan is not uncommon. They can be perfectly happy in a single chicken environment, with no other flock members.