When do cockerels typically try to mate?

[Thechickenchick2]

View attachment 1399901 My little dude has some catching up to do in his coloring!!View attachment 1399898

They are definitely handsome cockerels!

 

[TheTwoRoos]

Not unusual,they all seem to have different age.

 

[Thechickenchick2]

Not unusual,they all seem to have different age.

Thanks! Now, my older pullets (at the moment of course) run the two cockerels and I don’t see them EVER letting them mate. Will this change?

 

[TheTwoRoos]

Are the pullets laying?

 

[TheTwoRoos]

Most usually grown or mature chickens will keep young boys in line.It makes the young guys better gentlemen.

 

[Thechickenchick2]

Most usually grown or mature chickens will keep young boys in line.It makes the young guys better gentlemen.

My 5 RSL pullets are laying but the 4 other Asian blacks are not laying