bought a house that came with 7 chickens and no prior experience

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On feed, crumble is a texture of feed, not a type. Generally, there is starter, grower and layer. For example, you could buy layer crumbles or layer pellets. Obviously, layer is meant for laying hens; it has a higher calcium content than starter or grower. Many people feed layer as well as oyster shell; some hens seem to need more calcium than others.
 
the 3rd picture of the gold and black looks like a sebright (sp) hen..

I think you are lucky that you got chickens with your house...

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Your Grace looks like a Golden Sebright rooster to me. Sebrights are true bantams, and are "hen feathered" so they don't have the same feather markers for roosters that large fowl or other bantam roosters display. The spike on his comb is what makes me think he's a roo - the hens don't get the comb spikes that point back over the head like that.

And if you gather the eggs, you will never ger chicks, even if they're fertilized. They won't taste different or have any difference in nutritional value.

Everybody else's suggestions on the breeds of chickens in your flock appear to be correct, as far as I know.

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As for your breeds;

Your white hen looks like a Delaware. The black and white one is a Silver Laced Wyandotte. The small chicken in the 3rd pic is probably a golden sebright (bantam) and the 4th chicken is definitely a female and might be a bantam (meaning mini or small) Welsummer or maybe a game hen.
 

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