Joey my female budgie is sex crazed

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I think there is something not right about my 9 month old hand raised budgie, Joey. When she was only 5 months old her cere turned brown like a mature breeding hen. At only 6 months she began chasing the male budgies, posturing to mate with any make that responded and soon laid a clutch of four questionably fertile eggs that I took away and subbed dummies which she say on for over a week until I took them away. I now keep her alone in my bedroom where I spend a lot of time with her. She is hyperactive and very bonded to me and my husband. She literally hangs all over us and tried to crawl into our clothes. She never bites and grooms out faces any chance she gets. If she manages to fly out of the room to the room where the rest of my flock lives free flying all day she chases the males like she'd hormonally crazed and the males respond albeit reluctantly sometimes. It's very difficult to get her back into the bedroom where she lives.

I have never seen a female budgie behave like this. It's bizarre. Females are usually aloof and the males have to try to make a connection with them and it isn't automatic. Is it possible that she has a hormone disorder? She is absolutely out of control! She has no interest in any female budgies but isn't mean either.
Has anyone ever had a female bird of any kind that is so obsessed with sex? Help!
 
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Joey is the daughter of sibling parents. This entire bloodline is highly inbred and sexually aggressive/oblbessive very young like I've never seen before. Males and females. Female sisters mating and laying eggs. Chicks with deformed feet. I wish I had never acquired and bred these budgies but I love them. When I bred them I didn't understand the significance of the problems that could arise.
 
It certainly could be genetic; it’s so hard to know. My guess, though is that Joey will calm down with age. Although I’ve only had one female budgie, she was pretty crazy as a youngster. Not hormonal but just energetic and into EVERYTHING. By about two years, she had calmed down SO much. Do you try to make sure Joey gets at least twelve hours of “lights out?” That really helps keep Fay from being in breeding condition year- round.
 
If love to give them and myself more sleep but It's difficult to give any of my birds 12 hours nighttime during the summer because the sun rises so early and sets so late.
MY house only has 2 rooms right now but I'm adding an addition this summer. However, I have a lot of windows that can't be covered and as soon as the sun rises they all start stirring. Chirp. Chirp. Chirp. And then they all want to start their day. They all seem to nap in early afternoon except Joey and her clan who are so hyperactive. Later in the year I can sleep later and so will they.
I really hope she calms down because I feel like she's burning herself out. As long as she can't see any makes she's better but all bets are off of a male is in the room. It's just so bizarre to watch her chase the boys around, posturing like that. Her new companion Cora is a much calmer female that I think is fairly young but it's hard to tell.
 

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