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So my pregnant cat is grey tabby and the kittens father is a completely black tom does anyone know what colour the kittens would be? Thanks
 

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They will prob be black or grey, possibly grey tabby as mom.   Grey (blue in cat fanciers language) is really diluted black.  So the mom she too has the gene for black.   And also for tabby.

So it will be some sort of combination of the parents colors, exact how  I dont know.

Also, we dont know what recessive genes there may be hidden.

Good luck!
 

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Do you have any information about the parents of the parents? So the grandparents or even further  down the line of the upcoming litter?

If not, I'll try to see what I can come up with with the following information:

Mom - Blue, tabby

Dad - Black, non-agouti (non-tabby)

The entire litter will be black, with a small posibility of blue/grey if the father wears the dilute gene. If the father does not wear the dilute gene (blue/grey is diluted black) you won't get any blue/grey kittens. If the father does wear the dilute gene, you have a 50% chance on Black, and a 50% chance on blue/grey.

The entire litter will be tabby, unless the mother wears the recessive non-agouti (non tabby) gene; in that case you can get non-agouti kittens as well. Same as mentioned above, if the mother does not wear the non-agouti gene, you won't get any non-tabby kittens. If the mother does wear the non-agouti gene, you have a 50% chance on tabby, and a 50% chance on non-tabby kittens.

So expect a really cute black tabby litter, with a posibility of blue/grey and non-agouti.
 
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My cats mum is completely White my sister dosnt know about the dad but is guessing tabby as all of the litter that my cat came from where tabby kittens 2 grey tabby and 2 brown Tabby
The cat mine has mated with is a rescue cat so don't know any of his background
 
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Also my cats grandmother was all white and all her litter where my cats mother was born were all white too
 
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Them pics are my cat as a baby and her siblings there was one grey female tabby 1 grey male tabby then 1 female and male brown tabbys
 

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Alright, white is really difficult because it's not the actual color of the cat. Cats always wear either black or red (orange) genes (or both for Tortie), but the white kind of layers over it. It also layers over tabby or non tabby and other visual genes, so we can not say which genes the grandmother of the litter wears and might have given to her daughter by just looking at her. 

So I'll stick with my first message due to no more information available. Expect Black Tabby kittens (this includes brown tabby. For my breed, we call those Black tabby as well (as it is), but it's just a very warm black tabby colored cat). If you get Blue and/or non-tabby then you know the father wears diluted and/or the mother wears non-agouti ^^ So it's not completely ruled out yet ;)

I hope everything will go well, lots of luck to you and the upcoming kittens!

(adorable picture btw!)
 
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Thanks :) im really nervous this is all new to me I Havnt a clue how far she is or anything lol I'm hoping for at least a grey looking one like her for me to keep as I'm keeping one :) the rest have homes with all my family so I know there safe and looked after
 

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im really nervous this is all new to me I Havnt a clue how far she is or anything lol I'm hoping for at least a grey looking one like her for me to keep as I'm keeping one
the rest have homes with all my family so I know there safe and looked after
It would be handy to know how far along she is, haha. Is she showing already? How long ago did you notice anything, and what did you notice?

Also, I'm happy to read that you already have a place for all the other kittens you are not keeping, it's really important they get into good homes they can live the rest of their lifes <3

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to message me. I'm quite new still too, but I do have some knowledge and I can always ask my friends who have been breeders for many years if necessary ^^
 
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She's been sleeping a lot for a while now then about 2 weeks ago I noticed her nipples were a bit pinker than usual but her belly seemed fine then my husband said yesterday the cats being weird lately lol I was running her belly today and it's noticably pregnant not huge or anything but firm like and lumpy I didn't want to damage kittens so Havnt had a good feel but I also felt her top 2 nipples sticking out more than usual so looked at them and they've grown outwards a bit but the rest not as much yet x
 

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Can you feel them move inside of her already? If not, and assuming her nipples started coloring 2 weeks ago, I'd say she's around 5-6 weeks. So a month or less to go. But I can't be sure, of course. Make sure to keep a good eye on her!
 
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I can't feel any movement yet but I'm thinking 5-6 wks too am I right in thinkin once I see or feel them move she has 1-2 wks left?
 
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