Crested Cream legbar rooster or Araucana?

[Zsuzzzs]

Hi everyone! I have mixed flock of hens, and I'm planning on trying to hatch some eggs next year, for fun, not for selling. My goal is to have beautiful colours of eggshells.
My current flock has 2 araucanas, 2 cream legbars (not purebred but pretty close), 2 leghorns, 1 marans 1 olive egger, and the rest lays normal lightbrown eggs, 15 hens now all together.
My dilemma is what would be better, to get an Araucana rooster or to have a Cream Legbar rooster. As per egg colour, it doesn't really matter, both give blue egg genetics. As per aesthetic, I prefer Araucana so the chicks will be closer to them, possibly rumpless, with funny tufts, beards, etc. As per egg production, CL is much better, 180 against 280, but I haven't seen a lot of legbar mixes so far, and what I've seen they are pretty ridiculous, they don't really look good. As per health I have no idea. As per meat, also no idea (we would probably slaughter the roosters when grown to size, and keep the hens for eggs).

Alternatively, should I just leave my flock as is and buy fertilised eggs to incubate from others... Please remember I live in Hungary, we don't have these big shops you can buy chicks or hatching eggs from.

Thanks for your advice!

 

[Sc_chickengirl]

I'm slightly biased because I breed Ameraucanas and absolutely adore them....but I would go for the Aruacana!
If you were to get a Araucana the possible out comes you could get with your flock would be:
Araucana x Araucana = Araucana
Araucana x Cream Legbar = Easter Egger (blue layer)
Araucana x Leghorn = (light greenish eggs and higher production)
Araucana x Maran = F1 Olive Egger
Araucana x light brown laying hen = mix but will possibly lay light green eggs

 

[Zsuzzzs]

I'm slightly biased because I breed Ameraucanas and absolutely adore them....but I would go for the Aruacana!
If you were to get a Araucana the possible out comes you could get with your flock would be:
Araucana x Araucana = Araucana
Araucana x Cream Legbar = Easter Egger (blue layer)
Araucana x Leghorn = (light greenish eggs and higher production)
Araucana x Maran = F1 Olive Egger
Araucana x light brown laying hen = mix but will possibly lay light green eggs

Thanks for your opinion. I'm also turning a bit more the araucana way.
Do you have any thoughts on how or where could I find feather-colour genetics of araucanas? I might have the chance to buy a rooster this weekend and I'd like to understand a little more of what the outcome could be. He's a beautiful golden duckwing (or pretty close to that).

I'm slightly biased because I breed Ameraucanas and absolutely adore them....but I would go for the Aruacana!
If you were to get a Araucana the possible out comes you could get with your flock would be:
Araucana x Araucana = Araucana
Araucana x Cream Legbar = Easter Egger (blue layer)
Araucana x Leghorn = (light greenish eggs and higher production)
Araucana x Maran = F1 Olive Egger
Araucana x light brown laying hen = mix but will possibly lay light green eggs

Well, it just happened . The two of them arrived today! Had the chance and took it. Even if it ment 3 hours drive with a 2 months old baby girl