#gingertabbym

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(White and blue tabby anon) so I changed the father to a red and white bicolor van. Now what would the kits look like if the father is a red and white bicolor van and the mother a blue tabby?

The males will be red or cream, and the females will be torties. If the father carries dilute, each kit will have a 50% chance of being dilute (blue-cream tortie or cream) vs. non-dilute (tortie or red); otherwise, they’ll all be non-dilute. If the mother carries solid, each kit will have a 50% chance of being solid vs. tabby; otherwise, they’ll all be tabbies.

How many kits have white depends on how much white the tom has. If he has more than 60% white, every kit will have 0-60% white. If he has less than 40% white, each kit will have a 50% chance of having 0-60% white vs. no white at all. If the tom has between 40-60% white, it could go either way.

~ E

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What are the kit possibilities of a short haired ginger tabby and white Tom with tuxedo white markings and solid white long-haired female who's white is due to the masking gene. (W/o the masking gene she'd be a dilute tortie.)

If the tom carries the longhaired gene, each kit has a 50% chance of being longhaired vs. shorthaired. Otherwise, every kit will be shorthaired.

Male kits can be ginger or black/brown. Female kits can be ginger or tortie.

If the tom carries dilute, each kit has a 50% chance of being dilute (ginger > cream, black/brown > grey, tortie > blue-cream/dilute tortie). 

If the tom carries solid, each non-red kit has a 50% chance of being solid. Otherwise, every kit will be tabby. 

Each kit has a 50% chance of having anywhere from 0-60% white spotting.

Each kit has a (completely separate) 50% chance of having white masking like their mother, which overrides all of the above.

~ E

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What would the kits of a solid black molly and a red mackerel tabby tom (black based) with under 10% white look like? The molly doesn't carry any tabby genes.

hey its the solid black molly + red mackerel tabby tom ask !! i forgot to mention - molly is short hair, and the tabby is long hair! sorry ah

It’s no problem! If the molly carries the longhair gene, each kit has a 50/50 chance of being longhaired vs. shorthaired. Otherwise, every kit will be shorthaired.

The male kits will all be black/brown, the female kits will all be torties.

If both parents carry dilute, each kit will have a 25% chance of being dilute (black/brown > grey, tortie > blue-cream tortie). Otherwise, none of the kits will be dilute.

Solid cats can’t carry the gene that makes a cat a tabby, since that gene (the agouti gene) is dominant. There are other genes that affect tabby patterns that a solid cat would have regardless of whether they’re expressed or not, but if they’re not relevant I assume they’re the most common variety, a mackerel tabby.

What does matter is if the tom carries solid. If he does, each kit will have a 50/50 chance of being solid vs. mackerel tabby. If he doesn’t, every kit will be a mackerel tabby.

Each kit will have a 50% chance of having some white spotting (anywhere from 0-60%) and a 50% chance of having none at all.

~ E

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If a long-haired red mackerel tabby tom and a long-haired gray mackerel tabby molly had kits, what would they look like? What litter would the same molly have with a long-haired gray mackerel tabby tom with a white chest and paws?

All the kits (from either pairing) will be long-haired.

With the red tabby tom, the two of them will produce black/grey-based toms and tortoiseshell she-cats. If both parents carry solid, each kit will have a 25% chance of being solid. Otherwise, every kit will be a mackerel tabby (solid black turns into brown mackerel tabby, remember!). If the tom carries dilute, each kit will have a 50/50 chance of being dilute (grey tom, blue-cream tortie) vs. non-dilute (black/brown tabby tom, tortoiseshell). If he doesn’t carry dilute, every kit will be non-dilute. 

With the grey tabby tom, every kit will be grey. If both parents carry solid, each kit will have a 25% chance of being solid grey; otherwise, every kit will be a grey mackerel tabby. Each kit has a 50/50 chance of inheriting their father’s white-spotting vs. their mother’s no white spotting.

~E

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if the mother looks like this n the father looks like this, what would the kits look like ? 

The mother looks like a brown spotted tabby with ~30-40% white spotting. The father looks like a mackerel ginger tabby.

The male kits will all be black/brown tabbies, and the female kits will all be tortoiseshells. If both parents carry dilute, each kit will have a 25% chance of being dilute (black/brown > grey, ginger > cream). Otherwise, all the kits will be non-dilute.

If both parents carry solid, each kit will have a 25% chance of being solid (brown tabby > black, tabby tortoiseshell > tortoiseshell). Otherwise, all the kits will be tabbies, each with either a 50% or 100% chance of being spotted instead of mackerel.

About half the kits will have some white on them, probably a similar amount to their mother. About half will have no white like their father.

~ E

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What sort of kits could a longhaired, red mackerel tabby tom with no white spotting, but blue eyes from the ojos azule gene have if his mate was a longhaired, golden ticked tabby molly with no white spotting? The molly does not have any blood with the ojos azule gene, though she does carry spotted tabby, and mackerel tabby.

Wow, ojos azules sure has gotten popular lately!

Firstly, all the kits would be longhaired. Because the mother’s a ticked tabby, either every single kit will also be a ticked tabby, or half will be. If only half are ticked, the remaining half will probably be all mackerel and will either be all spotted or half spotted. 

Color-wise, I’m going to assume when you say golden you mean the silver variant called golden rather than cream*. Basically, all the male kits will be (genetically black) brown tabbies and all the female kits will be torties. Half will be golden, and half will not be. 

*(If you do mean cream, either every single kit will be red or half will be red and half will be cream.)

As far as ojos azules goes, about half the kits will have their father’s blue eyes and about half will not. 

~ E

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I have a ginger tabby tom and a blue tabby with white molly expecting; genetic ideas? Her white is really high, leaving the blue on the top of her head, back and tail and a small patch here and there.

Brown tabby males, and tortie tabby females! All will have less than 50% white on them. :3

~R

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Ah! forgot to ask, but again about the epistatic white(who is genetically black), what would kittens be with a red tabby?

All the kittens would be white, unless she happens to carry non Epistatic white, in which case she’d have Brown tabby toms and torbie she-cats too!

~R