What color kittens will you get if you breed a dark brown tabby and a silver tabby?

Answer 1

I've done this. One kitten was orange, the other two were black.

You can never tell what color of kittens you're going to get. I once bred two black cats. The litter contained a white one and three gray tabbies. Sometimes the kittens will look like the father or the mother.(They could inherit colors from the father or mother). Usually white.

Around 25-50% of the kittens will have stripes, plus the ginger ones which will always have stripes. Your females will be tortoiseshell with any other colour, or any colour except ginger. Your males can be any colour.

Both tabby and tortoise shell are color patterns in a variety of cats. Unfortunately you cannot predict what color or what color patterns you will achieve. You would need to take into account the genetic history of both cats. Also, with tortoise shell, I'm assuming you would mean calico pattern and that is predominately female. Only 1 in 3000 males have the tortoise pattern. Instead of breeding these two cats together for a certain look, I'd suggest looking at your local shelter or rescue organization. I'm sure they will have kittens that have been born to parent cats of these color patterns. Spay and neuter your pet and adopt one that is exactly what you want. Remember not only can you not predict coloring of your pet's kittens, you cannot guarantee they will be as loving and perfect as your current pet.

Also, you can determine what the color of the kittens would be by drawing a punnet square. Found by Robert Punnet, a punnet square determines the genotypes and phenotypes of a certain species. All traits are inherited from the father and mother. Just draw a square and divide it into four sections. List all the genotypes from the father and mother, including their ressesive alleles. (Note: you might want to ask your vet to perform a genetics test on your female and male cat). For instance, if the father has a dominant allele for tabby fur, and a recessive allele for black fur, you would write on the outside of the square: BT, BB.

50% of the males would be ginger, 50% not. 50% of the females would be tortoiseshell, 50% not. At least 50% of the non-ginger or tortoiseshell kittens will be tabbies.

Answer 2

You would most likely get more tabbies than anything else because the tabby gene is more dominate than any other coat color gene. (This is one of the reasons most second or third generation feral cats are tabbies). Natural selection made the tabby gene more dominant because the tabby coat is better camouflage than solid or bicolor coats, and thus an individual with a tabby coat would have better chances of survival because it could hunt and avoid predators more easily.

Depending on which parent is the bicolor, the black and white cat, it may give you more of a clue as of what the kittens may be. If it is a male cat, then the babies are more likely to be a mystery. This is because there are two basic colors for the coats: red and black, both being dominant. All other colors are a variation of one of those two, and white is a masking gene, which means it covers up the true color. Since males are xy chromosomes, and because the x chromosome holds the dominant coat color, males will appear with either red or black coats and not both. Since females have two xx chromosomes, they could be both red and black. This is why calicoes and tortoiseshell cats are usually female (the males of these types have an extra chromosome [xxy] and they are usually sterile.) Basicaly this means it depends on the blood line for your two cats; If the bicolor is male then he may be carrying the red gene. If it is female, then the kittens are more likely to have black then red because the two xx's are both genes for black coloration (but she may still carry the red gene if there was a red cat in her blood line).

Another Answer

Unless there is a blue or silver (grey) cat in one or both parent's bloodline, the kittens are probably not going to be grey. The black and white from the bicolor cat will not mix to make grey kittens. (Again, black is dominant and white is a masking gene, so they can't mix.)

Then there is the tabby cat to consider. Tabby is a coat pattern and not a color or breed of cat. Tabbies come in all colors from red, more commonly brown, blue, silver, Cinnamon, fawn, chocolate, buff, cream and many more, and that cat could have many more colors in it's blood line then what shows.

Your best bet is to spay and neuter your pets and find a cat/kitten with the coloring you want at your local humane society or cat rescue group. They will most likely have a cat or kitten that had parents with the exact coloring or the two you were consider breeding.

Answer 3

White with grey , black or red , and tortoiseshell, and maybe one or two striped.You can't tell for sure until they're born, but these colours are the most probable. It also depends on the tom.

Answer 4

a red color with some white and i tried that and they are so cute --- Your females can be ginger or tortoiseshell and you males can be ginger or another colour (most likely black, brown or gray and may have tabby markings).

Answer 5

I would assume some orange some black and some grey. --- You wouldn't get any orange kittens. You would mainly get tabbies, you might get some black kittens and depending on the lightness of the tabby's fur you might get brown or gray kittens.

Answer 6

It all depends on the bloodline. It could be any color that appears from an ancestor.

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Answer 7

the cat would be white with black stripes but it's not sure, it depends which one is the female.

Answer 8

It depends....but most likely its going to a silver tabby to solve your answer.

Answer 9

orange,black,and white