#browntabbyf

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What could the kits look like if the mother was white with a brown mask and mantle, and the father was a golden/cream tabby?

I’m going to assume you mean brown mask and mantle tabby, since it’s far more common than chocolate, which is the only way to get solid brown on a cat.

Male kits will be black/brown, female kits will be torties. 

If both parents carry solid, each kit will have a 25% chance of being solid. Otherwise, every kit will be a tabby. 

If the mother carries dilute, each kit will have a 50% chance of being dilute (black/brown > grey, tortie > blue-cream tortie). Otherwise, every kit will be non-dilute.

With a mask-and-mantle pattern (which is about 50% white spotting), the mother could either have one copy of the white spotting allele or two. If she has one, each kit will have a 50% chance of having 0-60% white spotting. If she has two, every kit will have 0-60% white spotting. This is, of course, assuming that the tom doesn’t have any white spotting on him to pass on.

~E

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kits of longhair gray tabby tom with green eyes x longhair black brown tabby molly with yellow eyes? thanks!

All the kits will be longhair. If the molly carries dilute, each kit will have a 50/50 chance of being black/brown vs. grey. Otherwise, every kit will be black/brown. If both the molly and the tom carry solid, each kit will have a 25% chance of being solid vs. mackerel tabby. Otherwise, every kit will be a mackerel tabby.

~ E

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Could a brown mackerel tabby she cat with about 40% white spotting and a black tom with a bit of white spotting on his chest have a brown mackerel tabby daughter with more than 60% white spotting, perhaps even a van pattern? And how could the other kits look like?

This is definitely possible! Honestly, with both parents having some white spotting but not a lot, you can pretty much get away with any amount of white spotting you want on her, from none at all to 100%.

If the she-cat carries solid, the kits will be about evenly split between solid black kits and brown mackerel tabbies. Otherwise they’ll all be brown mackerel tabbies. If both the she-cat and the tom carry dilute, each kit will have a 25% chance of being grey instead of black/brown. You can have kits with a wide variety of amounts of white -- distribution-wise, about 25% will have no white, about 25% will have 40-100% white, and about 50% will have 0-60% white.

Hope this helps!

~ E

[warriorsochelp]

Could a shorthaired (Ll), spotted brown tabby molly with 20% white who carries dilute, classic tabby and mackerel tabby - mate with a longhaired, cream classic tabby tom with 40% white and have: 1, a shorthaired, gray spotted tabby tom with 40% white, 2, a longhaired, spotted tabby dilute tortie molly with 50% white, 3, a longhaired gray classic tabby tom with 20% white, and a shorthaired, brown/red mackerel torbie molly with 10% white?

Yes, from what I can tell, all these kits are possible! Well done!

~ E

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could a long haired white tom (the coat his white is covering up is gray tabby) with yellow eyes mate with a brown tabby she-cat with green eyes to get two brown tabbies with yellow eyes, one with 15% white and one with 65%?

Yes! In order to get the 65% white one, the she-cat probably has at least a tiny bit of white on her somewhere, but this is definitely a possible outcome!

~ E

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what would the kits of a classic brown tabby tom and a low white (white paws) mackerel brown tabby she-cat look like? would they have any black kittens?

Brown mackerel tabbies! Half with a little white on them like the father.

Yes, they could have black kittens if both carry solid!

~R

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Offspring of a grey-brown female with high grade white spotting and a red mackerel tabby male?

Brown tabby males and Torbie females! All with less than 50% white spotting uvu

~R

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What would the kits of a cinnamon classic tabby tom and a dark gray mackerel tabby molly look like?

Brown mackerel tabbies!

~R