Can Orange Female Cats Have Kittens

To get an orange female kitten both the mother and father must be orange Konecny says.

Can orange female cats have kittens. My question is thisi thought that orange female cats were sterileor was that the males. If a mother cat is orange her male kittens will be orange regardless of their fathers color Konecny says and if a mother cat is tortoiseshell a mix of black white and orange half of her male kittens will be orange while the other half will be black. You may have noticed that only female kittens ever get tortoiseshell as a colour - this is because that requires the two X chromosomes one orange one black to be displayed.

Whether a kitten displays the tabby pattern depends on whether it inherits a dominant or recessive agouti gene. Because a female orange tabby must have two X chromosomes to be female there is only about a 20 chance an orange kitty will be female. All the kittens will have white to varying degrees.

Since females have two Xs and males have one X and one Y this means that a female orange cat must inherit two orange genes one from each parent whereas a male only needs one which he gets from his mother. Is it possible for a calico cat to be male. Of course a rare cat like an orange girl cat deserves an extra-special name.

The number of babies a cat can bear in a lifespan can be easily calculated based on the size of the litter. Can female cats sense when another female is about to have kittens. What Colour kittens will a calico cat have.

Cats that have given birth are more likely to have visible nipples though both males as well as females can have them. Then the boys will be either orange or black and the girls will be either tortie Calico or orange. Your female cat may act toward kittens or even to you as an adoptive mother.

As said in the posts above one of the parents has to have some orange to produce orange kittens. Ive heard that cats can have kittens by multiple different male cats thoso all the kittens might not have had the same dad. The red part is just too small to see and all it takes is one red hair to make them a tortie or a patched tabby.