Can Orange Female Cats Have Kittens

Then the boys will be either orange or black and the girls will be either tortie Calico or orange.

Can orange female cats have kittens. Utagawa Kuniyoshi did a xylograph called Woman Holding a Cat depicting a woman in a traditional kimono holding an orange and cream feline. Because a female orange tabby must have two X chromosomes to be female there is only about a 20 chance an orange kitty will be female. In this litter you know that all tortoiseshell tabby kittens are female all orange tabby kittens are male and that black tabby kittens can be either male or female.

Basically when it comes to cat colors cats are black unless they have inherited the sex-linked orange masking gene in which case they are red Miller explains. Your female cat may act toward kittens or even to you as an adoptive mother. Vaginal discharge may occur in heat-prone females.

Female cats can go into heat very shortly after they have kittens. Cats that have given birth are more likely to have visible nipples though both males as well as females can have them. As said in the posts above one of the parents has to have some orange to produce orange kittens.

All the kittens will have white to varying degrees. Whether a kitten displays the tabby pattern depends on whether it inherits a dominant or recessive agouti gene. Number of Kittens A Cat Can Have.

To get an orange female kitten both the mother and father must be orange Konecny says. For more read everything to know about a cat in heat. Number of Kittens A Cat Can Have Throughout Her Lifetime.

The gene that codes for orange fur is on the X chromosome. Normally a female cat can have an average of four to eight kittens per litter. We do recommend that you get the cats and kittens spayed or neutered as soon as possible.