Genetics: OEGB X SILKIES

[MonkeyZero]

Hiya

Quick question on genetics(because I'm dumb).

Ok Well there is this wild rooster who's been roaming around on our street. I know whose it its(an old lady down the road decided she cant afford to have chickens any longer and released them(really dumb). Now the wild roo CAN fly VERY high.
Now I am afraid he may breed with my hens( UGH!!!!). Now if my silkie(s), start laying and the roo is still around, and my hen goes broody

What will be the outcome of the chicks?

Thanks. I hope it wont happen but, if it does, what is the outcome?

 

[DTchickens]

they will probably be hard feathered (like the OEGB) in the F1, without feathered legs.. Was my experience in a similar, unplanned cross.

 

[MonkeyZero]

Would they be similar to sex links?
I hope someone catches the roo...

 

[DTchickens]

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Mine weren't.. And you could always call animal control couldn't you? Or catch him yourself and give him to someone.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Of the genes common to silkies, feathering is recessive, and as already stated won't show in F1 chicks; however, crest, muff/beard, dark skin & polydactyly are all dominant or incompletely dominant, and will show. None of these genes are sex-linked.

 

[Henk69]

footfeathering is also dominant.