Answer:
In this cross, the feathered foot gene demonstrates incomplete dominance. The homozygous bird with long feathers on the feat (F^LF^L) crossed with the homozygous bird with scaly feat and no feathers (F^NF^N) results in offspring with unusually short featheers on the feet. This suggests that the heterozygous genotype (F^LF^N) leads to an intermediate phenotyoe of short feathers. The breeder should understand that the feathered foot trait is not stricly dominant or recessive, but rather, it exhibits incomplete dominance where the heterozygous condition manifests as a distinct phenotype.
