New here,My shaded silver Persian had 8 babies!!! They are doing great so far!

[marla kay]

Hoping they are eating enough,got some first born to help mama Gracie!

 

[clynn11]

Oh they are just too precious!!!!!!! Hoping everything goes well and they continue to be healthy and thrive!

 

[missymotus]

Beautiful, assume your mentors have already told you to weigh them once a day to ensure they are feeding enough. Are the kittens shaded as well? Not a colour I deal with in my breed

 

[marla kay]

The daddy is a chocolate mackerel Tabby Persian,she had 4 chocolates and 4 shaded silvers

 

[missymotus]

Have you got photos of the sire? Chocolate Persians are gorgeous

 

[marla kay]

 

[missymotus]

He looks brown tabby bicolour not chocolate? Perhaps it's just the lighting, a judge would have picked it up otherwise I'm sure.

 

[marla kay]

His papers say Chocolate and white mackerel Tabby Persian ?

 

[missymotus]

I'm sure a judge would have reclassified him, or your mentors if they've seen photos along the way, you can colour test him to ensure pedigrees are correct.

I colour test all mine just to see what they carry

 

[marla kay]

Heres a better pic of him

 

[missymotus]

Again, it could be my computer but I'm not seeing chocolate. Will ask a Persian breeder to have a look

 

[orientalslave]

Doesn't look chocolate to me either, and because of the white his feet will have pink pads so you can't use those to see what colour he really is.  But the fur at the end of his tail looks very dark in this photo for a chocolate.

Has he been shown?

 

[missymotus]

Has he been shown?

I was just assuming, since they are breeding...

 

[orientalslave]

Find myself wondering who you are registering them with.  So far as I can tell under the UK GCCF, you would have to put the kittens on one of the reference registers.

 

[missymotus]

Is that because of the colours OS? They are accepted over here and if not with CFA in the US then TICA probably does - I haven't looked it up though.

 

[orientalslave]

Is that because of the colours OS? They are accepted over here and if not with CFA in the US then TICA probably does - I haven't looked it up though.

Persians are so not my thing, and being the oldest breed recognised in the UK (I think) it has lots of Breed Advisory Councils and there are very complicated rules about what matings are and are not allowed to produce showable kittens.  I mean showable in breeding terms, of course there is always the genetic roulette deciding if they are ducks or swans. 

 

[missymotus]

Oh of course, I do forget that some breeds have these rules.

 

[wellingtoncats]

He looks brown tabby bicolour not chocolate? Perhaps it's just the lighting, a judge would have picked it up otherwise I'm sure.

Hi everybody,

Definitely a Brown Tabby Bicolour - not choc at all

Here's a ladies website from NZ with both a brown tabby and a chocolate tabby.. hard to tell the difference without an untrained eye though. The chocs are much warmer in colour.

http://www.freewebs.com/rainbowlinecattery/kings.htm