last year was my first year in the sport and i only reared from 6 pairs i handled the young from the 1 nest every day for at least 10 min the other 5 nests i did not mess unless i had to and it made a big diffrence when i walked up to my sputnick on my yb loft the young from that nest would fly of there perch and into the sputnick as soon as they saw me and was hand tame from the moment they left the nest the other young from the other nests never became tame so in my experience witch is not much is that once you gain that bond with the young it is never lost i still have 1 cock in my old bird team and he is totally tame jmo