and Welcome To BYC! Good luck with your new chicken hobby! You've had some great breed suggestions and those links TwoCrows gave you, when you have narrowed down breeds check out the member reviews in the BYC Breeds section, you might also like to check out your state thread and what breeds people in your area find are doing well, https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/270925/find-your-states-thread So far as more layer breeds go, for egg numbers alone, the Red Sex Links (Golden Comet, Red Stars, ISA Browns etc) for brown eggs are probably the most popular layers around. If you want breeds that don't lay quite as well but will lay for a longer time, as suggested Australorps and Orpingtons (lots of people really like these, great pets though broody), some other popular ones are Plymouth Rocks, Sussex, Delaware and Wyandottes for breeds that are usually pretty easy to get along with, they all lay different shades of brown eggs. If you would consider a mixed flock, the Easter Egger, often sold as Ameraucana by hatcheries, are a fun breed because they usually lay green/blue eggs, and they tend to be very nice birds, and then there are the Welsummer and Marans for dark brown eggs....there are lots of breeds to chose from!
