Early breeding?

[Matieus27]

How old are your "roosters" and how many males and females do you have. If they are just approaching sexual maturity, the dynamics of your flock are probably about to change quite rapidly and probably not for the better. Too many adolescent males can make for a lot of stress on the girls. Whilst this girl is obviously cooperating and inviting the rooster to mate her, there is a possibility that she will get severely over mated if you have more than one cockerel in the flock.

Not enough I can say that much right now I have two cocks and two pullets and I am hatching eggs right now but I know that’s not good enough so I am going to have to figure something out i am not sure what I’m gonna do yet

 

[chickengeorgeto]

The first clutches that young pullets lay and that young cockerels service are notorious for being unviable or in fertile. So while your pullets and cockerels may be going through the motions that is no reason to expect these first eggs to hatch.

 

[Matieus27]

The first clutches that young pullets lay and that young cockerels service are notorious for being unviable or in fertile. So while your pullets and cockerels may be going through the motions that is no reason to expect these first eggs to hatch.

Yeah I’m not planning on hatching these i probably won’t be hatching anymore eggs till I get moved out to the land that we have been looking at where I can have lots of room to have enough hens so I don’t have any over breeding or anything I initially only wanted hens for the eggs but having roosters with them just seems natural so if I’m not butchering which is still possibly on the table I am going to have to figure something out to keep over mating down may build a bachelor pad

 

[aart]

How old, in weeks, are the 'mating' birds?

 

[Matieus27]

Somewhere between 14 and 18 weeks is my best guess I got then early September from Atwood’s and they were a couple or three weeks old already so I’m not 100% sure but that’s my best guess

 

[Matieus27]

Which is the reason I’m a previous post I said I thought they 2 to 3 month from laying

 

[aart]

Which is the reason I’m a previous post I said I thought they 2 to 3 month from laying

Age from hatch is more informational than how far from laying they might be.

Somewhere between 14 and 18 weeks is my best guess I got then early September from Atwood’s and they were a couple or three weeks old already so I’m not 100% sure but that’s my best guess

The females submitting may mean they are close to laying....
....or they are just submitting,
mounting is not always a sexual behavior but one of dominance too.
Multiple males can make this behavior more frequent due to 'competition'.
Does the pullet submitting look like she may be close to laying?
Here's some tips:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/who-is-laying-and-who-is-not-butt-check.73309/

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Somewhere between 14 and 18 weeks is my best guess I got then early September from Atwood’s and they were a couple or three weeks old already so I’m not 100% sure but that’s my best guess

What breed are they? By 18 weeks, lots of breeds of cockerels are ready to mate. Some early maturing breeds are ready by 14-15 weeks.
When I raised Jaers, the cockerels were crowing by 7 weeks and were trying to mate anything that moved by 15 weeks.

 

[Matieus27]

The male is white leghorn the female I suspect is black austrolorp I did the finger thing between the bones and they are not laying width 2 fingers between pelvic and breast and one finger between the pelvic bones

 

[Matieus27]

My Rhode Island Red I can get one and a half fingers between pelvic and 3 fingers between pelvic and breast so does that mean she is closer to laying then the other?