The pointed one is a tortie/torbie point---you can see on her muzzle where she has both dark and red bits. It's hard to tell with longhairs whether they're torbie or not. She may be dilute or it might just be because she's longhaired but her colros do seem a bit muted.
The mother of the kittens is a tortie/torbie/calico or she would not have been able to have both a red and a black. Usually with one pointed parent 25% of the kittens will be pointed. But of course statistics are never very tidy, so that doesn't rule out the pointed one being the mother. If you knew the sexes of the red and tabby kittens it might be possible to tell who the daddy is. If either is female that would indicate the father's color. If they're both males, well, still can't tell, lol.
The father could have been a traveling salesman, too. Sometimes females prefer not to breed with the resident males and will go looking for a stranger. I'm leaning toward there being 2 fathers because its rare to get one with as much white as the red one unless one parent has dominant white spotting, which would pass on to all the kittens.
The mother of the kittens is a tortie/torbie/calico or she would not have been able to have both a red and a black. Usually with one pointed parent 25% of the kittens will be pointed. But of course statistics are never very tidy, so that doesn't rule out the pointed one being the mother. If you knew the sexes of the red and tabby kittens it might be possible to tell who the daddy is. If either is female that would indicate the father's color. If they're both males, well, still can't tell, lol.
The father could have been a traveling salesman, too. Sometimes females prefer not to breed with the resident males and will go looking for a stranger. I'm leaning toward there being 2 fathers because its rare to get one with as much white as the red one unless one parent has dominant white spotting, which would pass on to all the kittens.
