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Hello , nice to meet you sam! I Am glad to finally meet someone close to my age here. I read a post about male calico cats where you wrote that you had a couple of fertile calico males, one of which you said was incorporated into your breeding program. I was under the impression that all male calicos either had Klinefelter syndrome (xxy chromosomes instead of normal xx,male or xy, female) and were sterile, or were chimeras ( embryos that fused in the womb to form one organism, with different parts of the body showing different DNA and characteristics, essentially bodyparts from two animals of the same species stuck together to make one animal) and therefore only bred for (in this case) orange and white or black and white, not both. In other words, it could breed for the part of the body on which the reproductive organs were placed, or whichever original embryo created that part of the body.
In short, i wondered if when you bred your male calico it bred true, or produced a calico kitten, male or female. A fertile Klinefelter syndrome cat is the only time this could happen, and carrying the fertile gene for calico, even for female cats, would be a vetrinary miracle. but maybe it is simply a healthy chimera. I apologise for being so long-winded. Thanks for your time.
In short, i wondered if when you bred your male calico it bred true, or produced a calico kitten, male or female. A fertile Klinefelter syndrome cat is the only time this could happen, and carrying the fertile gene for calico, even for female cats, would be a vetrinary miracle. but maybe it is simply a healthy chimera. I apologise for being so long-winded. Thanks for your time.