Goldy cat probably knows more here for sure. I got my first kitten from an accidental breeding of an orange male and grey tabby female so I was going off of that. Someone was offering them in a local paper. There were kittens that were black, ones that were grey tabbies, and ones that were orange. But I don't think their determination of paternity was necessarily perfect either.
. Also, breeding-age unneutered males can be difficult to live with, as they communicate by spraying strong-smelling urine. So consider all factors carefully before deciding to breed them!
Oops, you're right about the girls all being torties. I was doing this too late at night and my brain wasn't fully engaged.
If there were orange kittens in the litter the female must have had some red in her somewhere, possibly a brown or blue patched tabby with not much of the red showing.
Probably true. I suspect that possibly they weren't all from the one cat either. There were too many of them. Do red kittens only come from calico cats (and assumedly red females)? As you can see from my profile picture, I have a lovely orange male, but never met either of his parents.
Red kittens come from the female who has any red in her. That means red, tortie, calico, patched tabby. If the mother is red all of her boys will be red, and her girls will have some red in them. If she is tortie, calico, etc. she has a possibility of red boys, but some may be black/brown, girls may be just about any color combination depending on the father. To get a totally red girl the father must be red and the mother must have some red in her, because that's the only way to get two X chromosomes with the red gene.
