Breed Identification Please (oh and my introduction but that isn’t so important!)

[Rhodebar Lover]

Hoover's is incredibly frustrating as a hatchery because they mix many breeds and call them "rare" or "designer" and this makes them all incredibly hard to distinguish between because a mix is a mix and figuring out which is which is sometimes near impossible. That being said, I think you actually might have gotten a few non-mixes

1-Easter Egger (labeled by Hoover's as Americana which is incredibly misleading as it can be easily confused with the true Ameraucana breed)
2-Welsummer (could be an egger as well but matches breed enough)
3-Lavender Orpington
4-Midnight Majesty Marans (cross of Marans varieties that can also have clean legs unlike the French)
5/6-Cream Legbars (they theoretically could be Legbar-derived eggers but their variety is close enough to the breed that I lean actual Cream Legbar)

 

[BlueDawnRising]

#3 is a Lavender Orpington!

I thought it may be! I have two and am excited to have them as part of my flock! Thank you for replying!

 

[BlueDawnRising]

Hoover's is incredibly frustrating as a hatchery because they mix many breeds and call them "rare" or "designer" and this makes them all incredibly hard to distinguish between because a mix is a mix and figuring out which is which is sometimes near impossible. That being said, I think you actually might have gotten a few non-mixes

1-Easter Egger (labeled by Hoover's as Americana which is incredibly misleading as it can be easily confused with the true Ameraucana breed)
2-Welsummer (could be an egger as well but matches breed enough)
3-Lavender Orpington
4-Midnight Majesty Marans (cross of Marans varieties that can also have clean legs unlike the French)
5/6-Cream Legbars (they theoretically could be Legbar-derived eggers but their variety is close enough to the breed that I lean actual Cream Legbar)

Thank you! I appreciate your response!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I would love some blue eggs…someday! When did yours start laying?

Ya know, I don't really remember! I'm not so good at keeping records like that! Off the top of my head, I'm going to say, about 5 months. I got them about the beginning of April and I think I got some eggs around the end of August, beginning of September, about the time the 2-yo's started to molt. But of course everybody quit when the days got so short at the end of November. Right about then I added supplemental light and production started up again in mid-January though.

 

[BlueDawnRising]

Updated:
I am adding pictures for a couple of reasons: 1.) I appreciated updated pictures when I was trying to identify breeds and 2.) wondered if anyone had thoughts about gender of 3b and/or thoughts of breeds. Chicks are now 15 weeks old. I am including the invoice from Hoovers I found online after my original post. We had 3 that didn’t make it one was a black chick with a white spot on its head, one looked much like #1 as a chick and 1 like #5. I only have 3 of any one kind so I know I don’t have 6 Legbars. I also have 2, what I assume are Black Cooper Marans. The pictures are of each breed, not each chick but I did include a couple of #3, one labeled 3B. Good discussion in another thread if they are the same breed or not and if 3B is a cockerel. The invoice lists one as an Orpington and the other as a Wyandotte.