Can Orange Female Cats Have Kittens

The main factor which influences cat heat is sunlight.

Can orange female cats have kittens. Whether a kitten displays the tabby pattern depends on whether it inherits a dominant or recessive agouti gene. They both tend to have brown and orange fur but calico cats will have a lot of white coloring as well. Then the boys will be either orange or black and the girls will be either tortie Calico or orange.

This motherly behavior can sometimes expand to other female cats and their kittens. However there have been cases where a black cat might be a tortie or a brown tabby a brown patched tabby. However for indoor cats the number is up to five per litter.

Only about 1 in 5 orange cats are female so if you have an orange girl cat consider yourself blessed with an extra special pet. This is because the gene that causes a cat to be orange is linked to sex and statistically most orange cats are boys. Can female cats sense when another female is about to have kittens.

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. Yes for the most part. The red part is just too small to see and all it takes is one red hair to make them a tortie or a patched tabby.

Since females have two Xs and males have one X and one Y this means that a female orange cat must inherit two orange genes one from each parent whereas a male only needs one which he gets from his mother. I have a female orange tabby with no whiteshe had a litter of kittens interestingly enough the sire was a flame point siamese with red blood vessels tracing thru his irises and 2 of the kittens were siamese pattern albinoes and one was a regular albino. All the kittens will have white to varying degrees.

The average age of heats in cats however is 6 months for female cats which can oscillate or 9 months in male cats. Because their coloring is linked to the X chromosome and cats with two X chromosomes XX are female 999 of all calico cats are female. If you have any more questions about cat genetics please feel free to ask.