First time flock owner, thinking about hatching out some in the spring. What will i be looking at with these breeds i have?

[BDutch]

You are correct with the lavender hens. With your rooster they will produce 100% lavender offspring.

For other colours you can try this ‘chicken-calculator’
In Dutch /English/ German and French :
https://kippenjungle.nl/Overzicht.htm#kipcalculator

 

[ZerkerChicken]

For other colours you can try this ‘chicken-calculator’
In Dutch /English/ German and French :
https://kippenjungle.nl/Overzicht.htm#kipcalculator

Yeah I'm still trying to figure that calculator out. Haven't had much time to play with it and learn yet. Too many options for my limited ADD brain right now life be busy at the moment haha.

 

[ChickenCameFirst]

You could try a whiting true blue rooster next. They’re a breed without a color standard, including chance for beards/muffs. They lay blue eggs but can also carry a gene from their leghorn ancestors that gets rid of brown on the eggs (off I’m not mistaken) making more blue eggers. I’m not positive on that though, so try not relying to heavily on it. They were bred using araucanas and leghorns so they lay lots of blue eggs, so offspring should also be good egg layers.

 

[ZerkerChicken]

You could try a whiting true blue rooster next. They’re a breed without a color standard, including chance for beards/muffs. They lay blue eggs but can also carry a gene from their leghorn ancestors that gets rid of brown on the eggs (off I’m not mistaken) making more blue eggers. I’m not positive on that though, so try not relying to heavily on it. They were bred using araucanas and leghorns so they lay lots of blue eggs, so offspring should also be good egg layers.

Oooohhhhhhh I just looked them up. That will definitely be on the list for the future thanks for the heads up on that breed!

This picture is a pretty good representation of the eggs we get right now with what we've got. But adding more blue/green eggs plus cool feathers is a double win if they do both!

 

[NatJ]

From the limited reading I've done seems like if I want the color eggs to vary I'd have to play with Amerecauna. We get a pretty good egg color mix already have some darker browns, speckeled-ish to almost Blush on some for the brown layers and the 2-EEs are pale blueish and a light green usually.

You could hatch eggs from your Easter Eggers.
Some of their daughters will lay green eggs. You might even get green eggs from all of their daughters, depending on how many blue egg genes each Easter Egger hen has.

In later generations, if you hatch green eggs from the daughters of your original EEs, you will get about a 50/50 split of daughters that lay green eggs, and daughters that lay brown eggs.

 

[ChickenCameFirst]

A similar breed is the Prairie Bluebell Egger. Lots of blue eggs and can be a gamble as to what colors you get. Depending on how you get your chickens, (hatchery, hatching eggs, etc) it’s nice to have options.

Edit: added a picture of my PBE. She died this last spring, so I never got a good chance to witness her laying capability, but she did lay great for the year I had her.
I got a Whiting True Blue chick in June so no eggs from her yet, but we’ll see!

 

[Frizzle and Friends]

I would honestly suggest an Easter egger rooster. If you get one with only one blue egg gene, then only half his offspring will lay blue. The other half will lay white, tan, or brown eggs depending on what their mother's lay. The feather colors are not standardized either, so you don't know what the offspring will look like either. They are also fairly common and an inexpensive breed to get.

You could even just keep one of your Easter egger crosses from you lavender orpington rooster. They'd be split for lavender too, so that could pop up randomly down the line.