What are these markings called? pics

I'd call them patched tabbies with white. They are basically brown tabbies with red. Not a calico per say, as calicos would be solid black and red spots.

You'd better check again on the sexes - they are girls. The only "boy" is probably your solid black/white.

Looks like you might have ONE calico - the one with least amount of stripes, but the rest are definately patched tabbies. Very pretty litter BTW

Genetically the only difference in a calico/tortoiseshell is the fact that calicos have the added whithe - its still basically a black and red cat.

I would call them all brown tabby and white (and most probably girls) with the exception of the black and white bi-colour and maybe one calico...can't really tell at this age...

oops solid black white boy LOL I thought mine was a girl... Maybe I should look at Skittles kittens better... I thought they where all boys but 1 the black & white LOL.... Skittles kittens have little red strips on the forhead so cute...


Your babys are adorable...

Originally Posted by luvmyhorse780

i have a question about my cat. I was told she is a calico. here is a pic of her. I found her on the road and i know that her mom which is a stray is a yellow cat. Sorry didn't mean to still your thread but since you mention it i was a little curious about my girl.
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j1...allybabies.jpg

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She's also a patched tabby/torbie with white.

Luvmyhorse- I thought you may want to see this too since there's a lot of confusion here. I thought this was interesting.
This site has this:
http://cats.about.com/gi/dynamic/off...ricolors.shtml

What is the difference between a Calico and a Tortoiseshell? And what in heck is a Torbie?
Goodness, a lot of questions there. :-)
The difference between a calico and a tortoiseshell is this:

With a calico, there is a significant amount of white, and the two colors are broken up into distinct patches. This has to do with the interaction of white spotting.

With a tortoiseshell, the three colors are blended and don't form distinct patches. A tortoiseshell may have significant portions of white as well, but the remaining colors are blended (this particular pattern is called a tortoiseshell and white).

A torbie, or patched tabby, is a tortoiseshell where the tabby pattern is very distinct all over the cat. A calico or tortoiseshell may have distinct tabby pattern on the red or cream patches (has to do with another gene we won't get into at this juncture), but no patterning on the other color. This isn't a torbie. A torbie is clearly patterned all over the cat -- though never on the white.

Okay so based on this, I have three calicos (Stormy, Chyna, and Deuacalion) and the ones that I thought may be something else, which are torties are Odd and Liberty. Chris is just a regular b & w.
I can't see all of your cat, but she looks calico to me too then. Her one kitten CERTAINLY looked calico.

I hoped this helped you as much as it did me.

This site has the picture of the difference between torties and calcios so take a look at this too Luvmyhorse. It's very very obvious what a tortie is and a calico is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calico_cat

To much infor to consume brain is going to blow lol

Ok so i think taz is a tortise shell... i think. she has no white. so wait.. darned it confused again..

LOL that what i said to

Ok after looking at the pictures im pretty sure shes a torti, shes brown and reddish, with some black, and its all mixed together, kinda hard why oh why cant they all be cut and dry colored hehe be so much easier to know what breed of cat they are hehe

Fawna and Syrin are colored like her, but willow has alot of white and black striping on her legs and black spots on her belly ( they all have black spots the size of dimes on their bellys) and tweek is black and white long haired...

sigh.
its not easy is it!

little confusing. I know that boots is a tabby but Sally looks just like the calico on that site. Never knew there were so many different kinds of kitties. LOL.

Originally Posted by luvmyhorse780

little confusing. I know that boots is a tabby but Sally looks just like the calico on that site. Never knew there were so many different kinds of kitties. LOL.

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Yeah I think your cat is a calico. I was still confused about mine until I saw those pictures from Wikpedia or whatever it is. lol
Those pictures are very clear to me on what is and isn't calico.

What is Skittles then.... She has a few red strikes

well that was more helpful. So my other cat Fat Cat she looks just like skittles but short haired what would she be considered? Oh BTW my name is Tonya also...LOL just noticed your name.

Originally Posted by momof3rugratz

What is Skittles then.... She has a few red strikes

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Well if you read the article up there it says patches of color that is not mixed in. I figure this means the mixed in spots, not the all mixed up color like the torties show. So I don't think your's is a calico because the red is blended in and not in patches. Does that make sense?

See this kitten.....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Kaka.JPG
.see how all the colors are mixed together in its patterns? This is a tortie. A calico is a kitten that has it's orange/red spots without colors all through it, the same as it's other colors. Nothing is all stripped together like this cat. So I'm assuming Skittles and the other cat you're talking about Tonya is tortie. Still doing research.

that what i thought to but fat cat don't have no orange or red color at all. or does that matter what color they are? I have better pic of fat cat but have to use hubby computer but hes on it right now. My laptop don't have an A drive and my digital uses floppies. but I will post it as soon as he gets off his...LOL guess i could just boot him off...LOL

I have learned today that torties ARE calicos, but the ones called calicos are technically the ones with patches of orange/red , white, and black or blue.

Here is something that is very helpful on striped cats:

A true tricolor must have one of its colors derived from the red gene -- either red (orange) or cream (kind of a light, orangy beige, not unlike the color many people call "ginger"). If it does not have one of these two colors, it is not a true tricolor. The second color must be white, and the third color must be black, blue (a blue-gray), chocolate, lilac (a pale rose-beige), cinnamon, or fawn (a pale buff color). Black and blue are by far the most common.

Some cats may appear to have three colors, but in fact may only have two. There is a designation called "bicolor" where the cat has a significant portion of white fur, but the rest of the cat is either a solid color such as black, blue, red, or a patterned color such as brown tabby, silver tabby (what many people call "tiger"), blue tabby, etc.

A white cat with patches of tiger stripe might appear to have three colors -- white, black, and gray -- but because one of the three colors is not red or cream, it is not a true tricolor. It's defined (colorwise) as a tabby and white. A white cat with red or cream tabby patches is not a true tricolor either; only one of the colors may be red or cream in a true tricolor.

Okay, based on what I just read that is in the above post I think Skittles is a tabby and white.
Which is what my kitten Chris is.

If you need another pic, Gracie in my siggy is a true Calico. (Leo is just plain brown tabby with white and Raphael is obviously black and white )