Me too, I just discovered them about 6 months ago. I like the white too but these are just eye candy and you still get the white eggs Here's to hoping. Do you have a Facebook ? If so PM me your name there is a awesome Leghorn group on there !
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Sounds like she is well on her way to stealing your heart already..... just hope she is a "she"!
They certainly do have attitude.... great photos! What breed is the other chick in the picture with her?
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Actually I think having a legal limit might be a good thing even if you do exceed it a bit..... Not having a limit is positively dangerous!!
I've gone from a trio of exchequers in Jan this year to a mixed flock of 49 currently, although there are 6-7 chicken dinners imminent from that total, when I get myself psyched up to do the dirty deed and a few more to follow toward the end of the year.
The golden cuckoo marans sounds interesting. I have a black copper marans and a blue copper maran almost at point of lay.... I'm desperate to see my first eggs from them and really hope they are dark but they are very handsome birds.... in the UK marans are clean legged, which I prefer, since things are starting to turn muddy.
This is my first time breeding exchequer leghorns and I did wonder if the head spots were indicative of sex but I didn't mark them and they are no longer visible. The first 4 are nearly 8 weeks old now and I think that they are all pullets (fingers crossed). There are several of the younger 5 week olds which have huge pink combs that are already noticeably bigger than any of the others, even the 8 week olds so this leads me to believe the older ones are all female. But to answer your question, no there is nothing at the moment to indicate that your "Checkers" is anything other than female.
Regards
Barbara