how to determine kittens colours

custardsmummy · Jul 3, 2016

I read this today and wondered if anyone else could shed any light on the subject

-Basis genetics. First the color is carried on the X chromosone (XX - female; XY - male). So mom gives the color to all the male offspring and dad and mom give it to the females.

My mum cat is brown black spotted and white
Dad to the kits is grey silver tabby

haleyds · Jul 3, 2016

If you could upload pictures of the parents it would help in the diagnosing because certain traits are dominate and some are recessive, so it's not also so plain and simple as X and Y.
For example if a solid gray cat and a tabby have kittens, but both of these cats carry a recessive point gene (pointed as in Siamese coloration), then some of the kittens will be pointed in coloration.
But after you upload some photos, we may be able to predict at least what a couple of the babies will look like [emoji]128522[/emoji]

custardsmummy · Jul 3, 2016

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Jul 3, 2016

Thats dad

custardsmummy · Jul 3, 2016

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Jul 3, 2016

Thats mum

StefanZ · Jul 3, 2016

CustardsMummy said:
Thats mum

Momma is a tortie and tabby, and white, so it will give a patched tabby. Daddy is a blue tabby as you say, but we dont know yet exactly what sort of tabby.

So girls will tend to be torties or calicos AND OR tabbies,

boys will tend to be black or grey with white. in colors, but they will tend to be tabbies too... Someone MAY be a red tabby prob with some white.

Both white spot gene and tabby gene are dominant. But if the parents have the gene singled - they will be that, but not all their kittens will be that.

StefanZ · Jul 3, 2016

haleyds said:
If you could upload pictures of the parents it would help in the diagnosing because certain traits are dominate and some are recessive, so it's not also so plain and simple as X and Y.
For example if a solid gray cat and a tabby have kittens, but both of these cats carry a recessive point gene (pointed as in Siamese coloration), then some of the kittens will be pointed in coloration.
But after you upload some photos, we may be able to predict at least what a couple of the babies will look like [emoji]128522[/emoji]

True, but the color of parents will still give impression on this kitten. This cat will probably be a blue lynx point. Ie point, where the point places are grey AND with a tabby pattern. But the body will probably be khaki, as is common with points. May darken up somewhat when the cat get older...

custardsmummy · Jul 3, 2016

Dad is bsh x bengal he has slight tabby stripes like marbled.. with a spotted belly.. mum is a bengal x also and has a striped tabby head and tail wgite belly Nd legs and a spotted back sides ribs ect

StefanZ · Jul 3, 2016

CustardsMummy said:
Dad is bsh x bengal he has slight tabby stripes like marbled.. with a spotted belly.. mum is a bengal x also and has a striped tabby head and tail wgite belly Nd legs and a spotted back sides ribs ect

OK,

spotted tummy doesnt tell much, because both mackerel and marble tabbies may have spotted tummy. And spotted tabbies do always have spotted tummy of course. Its the sides and the back which is most important for deciding what sort of tabby it is.

OK, so daddy is a marbled tabby. If I unserstand your shortenings, momma has spots on the back, sides and ribs. She is thus a spotted tabby. We dont see the tummy spots because the white covers them.

All tabbies are dominant, but marbled is least dominant of them.

So the kittens will tend to be spotted tabbies, although someone may be marbled. It depends if she is double gene spotted or not.

A purebred bengal would probalby be double gened, but a mixed bengal is very unsure - probably not.

custardsmummy · Jul 3, 2016

Thank you I some what understand what they might be now.. Yeah mum has spots on her sides/ribs and shoulders.. and a black line going straigt down her spine

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custardsmummy · Jul 3, 2016

Also her fur is a mix of brown/cream hairs all finely together like an equal blend all along her dark brown bits is all crem hairs mixed in. if that makes sense

custardsmummy · Jul 3, 2016

custardsmummy · Jul 3, 2016

Could the babies not come out looking almost alike mum cat or dad cst

StefanZ · Jul 3, 2016

CustardsMummy said:
Thats mum

Willowy · Jul 3, 2016

Eehhhhh. . .from those pics I can't see any tortie coloring. I think that's just rufousing on her sides. Well, we'll know for sure if she has any red or obvious tortie kittens

. Otherwise I think the kittens will just look like a mix of their parents---tabbies, some with white and some not. Some blue and some brown.

custardsmummy · Jul 4, 2016

Im actually very surprised to hear she could have tortoise shell babies

bootse · Jul 4, 2016

Good morning just woke up a 1/2 hour ago and fed kitty. =^w^=
Hope all my new friends at thecatsite

haves Purrfect Day:nod:

Willowy · Jul 4, 2016

CustardsMummy said:
Im actually very surprised to hear she could have tortoise shell babies

I'm not sure she can. If StefanZ is correct and the brownish bits on her sides are actually red, then she can. If I'm correct and the brownish bits are just shading, then she can't. Won't know until they get here

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custardsmummy · Jul 4, 2016

In my opinion shes not at all red definitely brown

bootse · Jul 6, 2016

Good morning StefanZ
Hope you and all my new friends at TheCatSite are keeping Cool 91 hear in SouthPhilly today OK keep cool and have s Purrfect Day

custardsmummy · Jul 6, 2016

7°c where we live.. always awful weather

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