child friendly chooks.

Recommendations please everyone.  We are hoping to have three girls, but they must be fairly child friendly due to their being two wee boys running around and I want them to be involved as much as possible.  So what do you all recommend??  Oh and preferably ones that lay a fairly decent amount of eggs.  I particularly like speckledy types - eg scots greys, speckledys and marans but don't know enough about their temperament.  Cheers!

Hi I have a lot of pure breeds but my friendliest are my hybrids, too friendly sometimes they will follow you every where, let you pick them up, they  would be great with children,

Pekin's are great with children and are almost instantly tame, they are positively relaxed when held by my youngest son! Funny looking chicks too with their big feathery slippered feet!
This is one of my son's pekin's Princess Layer

Thanks everyone.  Don't the feathered legged types take a lot of extra work??  Don't want to have to constantly be grooming my birds.  They do look fabulous tho!

not all bbs have feathery feet .. Lucy has naked legs, dorothy has feathery feet and  matilda has amazing blue snakeskin boots  with just a tuft here and there

We have 2 Cuckoo Marans a Coral Nick and a Columbian Blacktail. Although the Marans are nice birds I wouldn't say they are particularly friendly with us or our kids. However the Nick and the Blacktail definately are.