Orange Cats Male Female Ratio

About 81 percent of orange cats are male says Bell.

Orange cats male female ratio. Approximately 20 percent of orange tabby cats are female. Female cats however have two X chromosomes and may have both the orange allele and the non-orange allele thats why its extremely rare to find a male tortoiseshell or calico cat. Tabby cats are todays topic so I thought Id try and answer the question in the title to this post.

This means there are roughly three males to one female ginger cat. There is no monetary value per se associated with a female orange tabby cat. Males usually only have one set of the chromosome so in the rare instance when a tom cat has two of them he too can enjoy a beautiful calico coat.

Have many great adventures with your own striped tiger when you name your orange cat. Female orange tabby cats arent uncommon. With statistics like this its no wonder these are such common cats.

The gene that codes for orange fur is on the X chromosome. Ginger tom cats father tortoiseshell or ginger females. An owner of a cat is thinking of mating her black female cat with an orange male.

Black coated female male Orange coated female male Tortoiseshell intermingled black and orange in fur in female cats only Parent cats Black X Orange male female xo Non-red black XoXoX0Y xo Red 1. 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. Males only have to inherit one orange gene to appear orange while females have to inherit two.

Orange County Californias gender ratio is lower. Im looking at the distribution of the sexes of cats on a popular adoption web site and Im seeing roughly a 31 ratio of males to females in orange cats but a very consistent 11 ratio of males to females in black cats. Female orange tabby cats are not necessarily rare but they pale in comparison to the male numbers.