#torbief

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Hi, is it possible for a brown male mackerel tabby with copper eyes and without any white and a female calico (maybe caliby instead?) that's 70% white with green eyes to have a tortoiseshell (that's not expressing tabby stripes) female kitten with copper eyes? And if so, what might the other kits (male and female) in the litter look like? If you'd be so kind to answer this I'd be forever in your debt! (even if it's just to tell me this is all impossible!)

This kit seems totally plausible (whether the female is a calico or caliby!) as long as she has at least a little bit of white on her (anywhere from 0-60%). 

As for other kits in the litter, her sisters could be fellow torties, tabby-torties, brown mackerel tabbies, or solid black. Her brothers could be brown mackerel tabbies, solid black, or ginger mackerel tabbies. If you want, her siblings could also be dilute versions of these colors too (blue-cream torties and tabby-torties, grey mackerel tabbies, solid grey cats, and cream mackerel tabbies), though they should probably be outnumbered by the non-dilute siblings. Every kit should have somewhere between 0-60% white spotting.

~ E

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So now I have the parents of my main kitties... What type of kittens could a longhaired, tortoiseshell tabby she-cat (40% white, classic tabby, yellow eyes) have if she mated with a shorthaired, dark brown tabby tom (35% white, mackerel tabby, dichroic orange eyes with rings of yellow)? Are dichoroic eyes a random mutation, or heredity? I think they'd be all shorthair, since only one parent is shorthair?

All kits will be shorthair. Half the kits will have less than 50% white on the, a fourth more than 50% white, and a fourth no white at all.

Brown tabby males, ginger tabby males, brown tabby females, and tortie tabyb females are possible.

As for dichroic eyes, they are somewhat hereditary. It tends to run in families, but its not a hard-fast thing. Giving it to one of her kits wouldn’t be out of the question, though.

~R

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blue male and a torbie female that has roughly 30% white spotting. Could i get the offspring for if the female carries dilute and also for if she doesn't carry it?

Half the kits will get less than 50% white spotting.

Brown tabby males, ginger tabby males, brown tabby females, and torbie females.

With dilute, add on:

Grey tabby males, cream tabby males, grey tabby females, dilute torbie females.

~R

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Brown mackerel tabby with a white muzzle X a (most likely dilute) torbie with a white chest and belly= ?

Brown tabby males, Ginger tabby males, Brown tabby females, and Torbie females. Half will have less than 50% white, a fourth more than 50% white, and the final fourth no white at all.

~R

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Well, what would the likely kittens be if the brown mackerel torbie she cat was carrying dilute and I kept the tomcat as the cream mackerel tabby with 40% tuxedo pattern white spotting he is?

all the tabbies are mackerel once again ;o;

Brown tabby males, Ginger tabby males, Grey tabby males, Cream tabby males, Brown torbie females, Grey torbie females, Ginger tabby females, and Cream tabby females! :3

~R

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What are the likely kittens of a brown mackerel torbie she cat and a cream mackerel tabby tomcat with tuxedo pattern 40% low grade white spotting?

all tabbies are mackerel

brown tabby males, ginger tabby males, ginger tabby females, brown torbie females.  Half will have less than 50% white on them

~R

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Could you do a caliby mother (Cream + brown tortoiseshell with medium white, someone else said its called a caliby like torbie x calico thing sorry if thats wrong) x black w/ low white tom?

a cream and brown tortie is actually impossible. I think you mean a brown and ginger tortie with stripes? Which, plus medium or more white would be a caliby!

It sounds like ginger tabby toms, brown tabby toms, brown tabby she-cats, and torbie she-cats. Half will have more than 50% white, the other half less than 50% white.

~R

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What would the kits of a cinnamon shaded tom and a mackrel tortie queen with white mitts and muzzle (10%) look like?

Shaded silver tabby males, silver tabby males, red silver tabby males, shaded cameo males, shaded silver tabby females, silver tabby females, shaded silver torbie females, and silver torbie females. Half will have less than 50% white on them.

~R