Early puberty?

[Loco11]

My bird Felony is now just over a year and a half old. Recently she has been showing some behavior that seems somewhat like the "mating" behavior we saw in our first bid, Oprah...who was much older. She has a clear preference for my husband and has been doing what I call the "come hither" dance with the lowered, fluttering wings. She hasn't been trying to feed him, so far...but when I tried to get her to step up on me this afternoon when she was flirting with him, she bit me quite hard. We learned the hard way with Oprah about this mating behavior with resulting egg laying...egg binding, actually...and some big vet bills. So we now know not to encourage the behavior...but at 18 months isn't Felony too young for this? I hate to discourage behaviour that is just being playful. What do you guys think?

[birdhouse]

I don't know from youngsters; only problem children, having a bunch of grown rescues. But if it's not hormonal already, it's going to be eventually. Seems like it would be better to discourage potential mating behavior right from the get-go. Sorry Felony.