Every orange cat I've owned has been female. Right now, the 3 fosters I have are 2 orange and a tortie. All female.www, so cute! Well, at least it will be easy to tell which ones are boys and which are girls(in case you don't know: the red ones are boys, the torties are girls).
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Oh, we know you only want them healthy, that's a given! I just can't pass up a genetic lesson, given the opportunity.
Does the depth of red make any difference? If red is a recessive gene, requiring one from each parent, I guess that wouldn't factor in. The litter I referred to had a calico mom. I do have 3 red boys now, including the boy you see here. Oh, and a regular visitor, that I need to trap. Now I will go to the appropriate area for genetics.Yeah, I didn't mean for it to sound like red cats can't be girls, but all red females need to have a red daddy (and a red or tortie/calico mom) so since there was clearly a dark male involved I thought that it's probably pretty straightforward in this case
Keep up the good work! You'll have a lot of fun when they're about 5/6 weeks old. As much fun as a barrel of kittens!
Nope! Basic color in cats is pretty straightforward---it's attached to the X chromosome, so boys get only one, from their mother---males are always the same color as their mom (a calico/tortie could pass on either color). Females have 2 X chromosomes, so they get one color gene from each parent.
. Must be busy with so many little mouths.
I haven't had kittens in this house in eight years, I'm getting my "fix" from you!
