What will the kittens look like?

My blue/cream tortie ragdoll is pregnant with my ginger tabby and white siberian cross. I believe if one parent is not pointed, none of the kittens will be, but wondering if anybody knows what colours we can expect, and also what kind of patterns ...any tabbies? Just curious!

Hera said:

 
My blue/cream tortie ragdoll is pregnant with my ginger tabby and white siberian cross. I believe if one parent is not pointed, none of the kittens will be, but wondering if anybody knows what colours we can expect, and also what kind of patterns ...any tabbies? Just curious!

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True, if the other significant isnt no point carrier, the result will not be pointed, although half of them carriers.  Tabby is dominant, so at least half will be tabbies. Perhaps all, it depends if he is double tabby or singel tabby.   Re the exact color hereditary, Im no expert on this.

If both parents are longhaired (or at least mediumhaired) as it sounds, all kittens will be long- or mediumhaired.

Good luck!

They can have red/cream tabby males or females, black/blue males (tabby or solid), and tortie/torbie/calico females, dilute or not. Both parents have to carry the dilute gene to pass it on, so you'd only get blues or creams if the father cat carries the gene too. And, yep, they'll all be longhaired .

I knew someone would know! Actually he's got short(ish!) hair, his daddy (siberian) was really fluffy and his mum was a short haired moggie so his litter were mixed! I'm guessing this will happen again!!

Do you happen to have any more background information about the ragdoll and cross Siberian? Siberians also have a pointed variant named the Neva Masquerade. If the father (the siberian) had this in his genes, you have a possibility on pointed kittens.

The ragdoll has a seal point mother and a red point father, the siberian cross has a black and white moggie mother and a fully ginger siberian father but I don't know much beyond that! It's interesting that they can have black kittens though!

Well, boy kittens only get their color from their mothers, and since she's black and red (dilute), she can pass on the black gene to her boys and if they don't get the dilute gene too they'll be black .

Hey wait. . .his mother can't just be black and white because she wouldn't have been able to pass on the red gene to her son. Sure she wasn't tortie/calico? I mean, she HAD to be tortie/calico or he couldn't be red. So she must have had maybe a tiny spot of red somewhere, or was a "hidden tortie".

That's a point, I didn't pick her up or anything, and it's a very vague memory ...perhaps the white was masking red! Also, why would the boys be black and not red? Is black dominant over red?

She could have red OR black boys . It just depends which color gene she passes to them, which is determined by chance, neither is more likely than the other. Red is always tabby (ever seen a solid red cat? ) but the black boys could be tabby or solid.

Willowy said:

She could have red OR black boys

. It just depends which color gene she passes to them, which is determined by chance, neither is more likely than the other. Red is always tabby (ever seen a solid red cat?

) but the black boys could be tabby or solid.

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Not all red cats are tabby, they just SHOW the tabby pattern, even when they are truly solids. There's a difference with being it or showing it Red cats that are truly solid can't give tabby offspring unless they are bred with another true tabby.