Brown tabby

[posiepurrs]

In another post I was asked to post some photos of brown tabbies that have been produced here from silver/golden breeding's. The first 2 photos are the parents - silver is the sire and golden the dam. The kitten is the brown tabby. In that litter we got a silver, 2 goldens and the brown tabby. Next is a golden sire, a silver dam (the silver from the previous litter) and the brown tabby kitten. The other brown tabbies have such poor coloring that it is difficult to even tell they are tabbies. Not to further confuse the matter, you could also get a golden tabby from this breeding (but that isn't a recognized color).

 

[lutece]

So adorable!

Do you happen to have pictures of the brown tabby babies after they grew up and their coats matured? I am just curious if the coats showed any wide banding effects as adults.

Silver and golden parents could be heterozygous for Wb, and therefore be able to produce brown tabby kittens without any wide band effect... and it's also quite possible (and perhaps likely) that there are multiple versions of Wb that have stronger effects, or cats that have multiple copies of Wb on a single chromosome. The Sundust cattery article uses the notation wb (allele with no wide banding), Wb (allele with some wide banding), Wb+, Wb++, etc.

genetics

The earliest documentation of silvers shows “Chinnie,” born in 1882 in England. While no pictures of her have been found, there was one of her famous grandson, “Silver Lambkin.” Some of the...

www.sundust-cats.com

If I had silver and golden cats, I would contact Leslie Lyons and see if her lab is still studying this and if they could use more samples!

Silver and Golden

felinegenetics.missouri.edu

 

[posiepurrs]

Kitten 1 as an adult (Sorry not groomed)

Kitten 2 as an adult You can’t see his markings well in this but he is a classic tabby.

 

[posiepurrs]

Here you can see his markings a little better.