What would you call this breed

Im not sure what you're looking for here?
You have two who's father is a cross between two breeds and their mother is a cross between two breeds.
Then two more that are from same two breed mix father and a third breed mother. Different breed of mother to each.
Then two more that are from a three breed mix father and a two breed mix mother.
So that's two that are the same mix of four breeds.
A third that is a mix of three breeds. A fourth that is a different mix of three breeds. And a fifth and sixth that are mixes of five breeds.
That's four different mixes of a lot of different breeds. So how can you expect them to be a breed when they're all mixes of several breeds and most aren't even the same mix?
You're about as far from being a breed as you can get.
 
I'm looking for a breed name to call them.
You won't find one. A chicken breed is something recognized by the APA as having specific traits. If it isn't recognized, it isn't a breed. Cinnamon Queen, Red Star, etc are NOT breeds, they are names given to specific crosses by the hatcheries that are selling them. What they are is sexlinks. People spend decades refining lines of birds that can be submitted to the APA as a new breed.

I agree with those suggesting you call them Easter Egger crosses and then ONLY if they are laying blue or green since that is something people expect (but don't always get) with Easter Eggers. They don't even have the "expected" beards and muffs. For the sake of honesty, @Ravynscroft has it right "barnyard mix". There is nothing there that will produce offspring that look like the parents except by pure chance.
 
The thing that has them all related is Douglas. He is the rooster that started this flock of EE. I didn't have any EE except for Douglas and his daughters layed green eggs. Douglas himself isn't even a pure bred EE. Because there is so many breeds involved I'm looking for something to call them by for after a while of trying to tell somebody what they are by their family tree can get really confusing. If I could tell someone a breed name it would save some time. Then if they wanted to know more about them I could tell them more like what the names are of some of the mothers of these hens are.
 
You can call your breeds whatever, for instance I call my TBs (Thoroughbred Horses) barn bloodline "The Melting Pot" Because it has different types of TBs from all over the world.
Whole different situation. You're talking about a breed (thoroughbreds) and "the melting pot" is like your line of the breed.
The OP has no breed but wants to call them a breed.
That would be like you picking up a few grade mares and wanting to call them thoroughbreds, or quarter horses or fox trotters or any other breed.
If they want to pick a cute name to call their motley mixed crew then make something up but the one poster is right it won't mean anything to anyone except them.
You just can't mix a bunch of breeds and then pick a breed to call them or make up a random name and say its a breed.
Doesn't work that way for chickens just like it wouldn't work that way with horses.
 
The thing that has them all related is Douglas. He is the rooster that started this flock of EE. I didn't have any EE except for Douglas and his daughters layed green eggs. Douglas himself isn't even a pure bred EE. Because there is so many breeds involved I'm looking for something to call them by for after a while of trying to tell somebody what they are by their family tree can get really confusing. If I could tell someone a breed name it would save some time. Then if they wanted to know more about them I could tell them more like what the names are of some of the mothers of these hens are.
Easter egger mixes would be the best thing to call them if you don't want to call them barnyard mutts.
 

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