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01-02-2006, 06:11 PM   #1

Do colours run in families?


Based on DM's search for a ginger kit it made me think, based on Smudgleys ginger boy (in the rescue) and a friend who just got a ginger kitten - are most gingers born into tortie litters, from tortie moms?
If you have a ginger what other colours were in the litter and what colour was the mom?



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01-02-2006, 06:23 PM   #2

Re: Do colours run in families?


if your looking for a ginger tom its best to find a ginger mom as boys get there colour off there mum and girls get it off both of them
so a ginger tom will come from either a ginger or a tortie mum
and why girls can be tortie and boys cant

so in my litter i am due in a little less than 3 weeks i know that all the boys will be some sort of red

hope this helps



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01-02-2006, 06:25 PM   #3

Re: Do colours run in families?


Ha Ha so there is a link brilliant.

Ta

DM walk around the streets and look for a tortie cat then follow her home and leave your number with them



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01-02-2006, 06:45 PM   #4

Re: Do colours run in families?


Quote:
Originally Posted by Kazz
Ha Ha so there is a link brilliant.

Ta

DM walk around the streets and look for a tortie cat then follow her home and leave your number with them
I can just see DM following a Tortie Cat home



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01-02-2006, 08:06 PM   #5

Re: Do colours run in families?


i didnt realise torties were females only. I lvoe thier markings.



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01-02-2006, 09:36 PM   #6

Re: Do colours run in families?


Yes...i think gingers often are in a litter with torties, Clementines brothers were shaded gingers. I know of a fair few gingers that have had tortie sisters actually.
As for why torties can only be female, something too do with the chromosomes (sp) that give the red and black colour not being compatible so to speak with the male gene (i read that somewhere, so not sure if its true)



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01-02-2006, 09:39 PM   #7

Re: Do colours run in families?


Chloe my tortie/white was a litter of four. Her three brothers were completely black.



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01-02-2006, 09:44 PM   #8

Re: Do colours run in families?


Hovis, who I posted a piccie of a few weeks ago was the only ginger in the litter. The others were - 2 black and white boys, 1 grey tabby girl and 1 grey tabby boy. Mum was tortie tabby dad was black and white...



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01-02-2006, 10:08 PM   #9

Re: Do colours run in families?


Cassie's brothers and sisters were black & white.......



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01-02-2006, 10:13 PM   #10

Re: Do colours run in families?


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Originally Posted by Kazz
Ha Ha so there is a link brilliant.

Ta

DM walk around the streets and look for a tortie cat then follow her home and leave your number with them

..........................but maybe it's not so bad an idea!



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