Confused about newborn kittens

[mykidsmther]

This morning my beautiful solid black mama gave birth to 3 adorable little beans. Both parents are solid black but, somehow we ended up with 2 black and 1 grey baby. To make things even more confusing all 3 babies have pink noses. I am completely bewildered, how did this happen?

 

[Kieka]

Do you have photos of the parents and kittens?

 

[maggie101]

A strand of grey on one cat can make a difference. Are they pure bred or strays? My cat's mom was brown and her mate grey striped. Coco is brown white spots stripes no grey.

 

[Sarthur2]

It all depends on the genes that mom and dad carry. StefanZ is good at explaining this.

 

[mykidsmther]

1st pic is mama with the babies, 2nd is just the babies and 3rd is dad

 

[StefanZ]

This morning my beautiful solid black mama gave birth to 3 adorable little beans. Both parents are solid black but, somehow we ended up with 2 black and 1 grey baby. To make things even more confusing all 3 babies have pink noses. I am completely bewildered, how did this happen?

Both parents are solid black, but both do also carry the recessive dilutations gene... So in average, 1 of four kittens will be grey / blue...

This kitten looks on one of the pics as a tabby, but its surely ghost striping.... There shouldnt be a true tabby in this batch, unless daddy got helped out by the janitor whom is a tabby...