Can Orange Female Cats Have Kittens

This interesting fact explains why most orange tabbies are male.

Can orange female cats have kittens. By the way those orange kittens are super-cute. Whether a kitten displays the tabby pattern depends on whether it inherits a dominant or recessive agouti gene. Is it possible for a calico cat to be male.

When a cat is about to have kittens there is a certain smell and other cats can smell this. However if you plan on getting an orange cat from a breeder you are going to need to have a lot more patience and understanding. The rule of thumb with any tortie tortie is black and ora.

Here are some important facts when doing research on your new calico kitten. All the kittens will have white to varying degrees. As said in the posts above one of the parents has to have some orange to produce orange kittens.

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. Your female cat may act toward kittens or even to you as an adoptive mother. 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. Orange female cats can be great pets if you are going to get them from someone that already has a litter of kittens. They both tend to have brown and orange fur but calico cats will have a lot of white coloring as well.

Cats can only begin to have kittens once theyve experienced their first heat. 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. Then the boys will be either orange or black and the girls will be either tortie Calico or orange.