Orange Cats Male Female Ratio

This is just downright interesting.

Orange cats male female ratio. We have many female orange tabby cats in my practice. Orange tabbies love eating and they are often obese and lazy. Female cats can be black X B X B orange X R X R or calico X B X R Male cats can be black X B Y or orange X R Y Show each of the crosses below and include the phenotypic ratios of the offspring.

About 25 of orange tabby cats are females. About 81 percent of orange cats are male says Bell. An owner of a cat is thinking of mating her black female cat with an orange male.

Black coated female male Orange coated female male Tortoiseshell intermingled black and orange in fur in female cats only Parent cats Black X Orange male female xo Non-red black XoXoX0Y xo Red 1. Im looking at the distribution of the sexes of cats on a popular adoption web site and Im seeing roughly a 31 ratio of males to females in orange cats but a very consistent 11 ratio of males to females in black cats. The gene that codes for orange fur is on the X chromosome.

Total population of Orange County California is estimated at 3145515 people with 1553309 male and 1592206 female. If black and orange are co-dominant on the X-chromosome shouldnt the ratio be the same for orange cats as for black cats. A male cat needs only one orange gene which he gets from his mother orange calico or tortoiseshell.

Calico and tortoiseshell cats however are almost always female. With so few females to choose from there are always some cats mating and creating new litters. Orange cats are usually male.

There is no monetary value per se associated with a female orange tabby cat. Morris the famous Nine Lives cat food mascot was a typical male ginger cat and most though not all gingers encountered in homes. Are All Orange Cats Male.