Hi again, so as I said I sent in two asks a couple days ago and you told me you couldn’t find the first one. Even if it has turned up by now, I’m resending it because I’ve added to it, hope that’s okay. Also it’s a submission now because it got longer.
I would like to know if it’d be possible for these three to be littermates (same father):
- A grey mackerel tabby tom with about 30% white
- A brown spotted tabby tom with about 40% white
-A solid black molly with no white
If this can work, what would their parents need to look like?
Furthermore the black molly should carry dilute because I want her to have a blue kitten (with a blue tom), could that happen?
This can definitely happen!
The only real requirements are that at least one parent is spotted, at least one is non-dilute, at least one is black/brown, and at least one has some white. The rest of the variation can be explained through carried genes.
I suggest having one parent be blue and one be black/brown; one a spotted tabby, the other solid; one with 20-50% white and one with none. There are other combinations that are totally do-able, but this one makes the inheritance of dilute and solid traits a bit more transparent.
And while I’m already here I’ll just add this too, if the brown spotted tabby had kittens with a cream mackerel tabby molly with very little white (paws and tail tip) what could they look like?
All toms would be ginger or cream. All she-cats would be torties or dilute torties.
If the tom carries dilute, each kit will have a 50% chance of being dilute (cream toms, blue-cream tortie she-cats). Otherwise, all the kits will be non-dilute (ginger toms, tortoiseshell she-cats).
All kits will be tabbies. Each tabby kit will have either a 50% or 100% chance of being spotted vs. mackerel.
Each kit will have a 50% chance of having a little white like the molly and 50% chance of having no white like the tom.
Thank you so much for helping me!
No problem! We’re glad to help!
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