Are Orange Colored Cats Always Male

The gene responsible for an orange coat on a cat is in the X chromosome.

Are orange colored cats always male. Thus both the mother and father cat must pass on the genes to the female but males only need the trait from their mothers. Most Orange Cats are Males. Not at all there are plenty of orange female cats.

Ginger cats are not always male although this is a common misconception. Most orange cats are male and most calicos are female. KREM set out to verify i.

The executive director of SpokAnimal said calico cats that come in to the shelter are always female and the orange cats are always male. Females have two X chromosomes and so need two copies of this gene to become ginger whereas males need only one. Well thats not entirely true.

For this to happen the mother had to have 3 colors like a calico or tortoiseshell and the father has to be a solid bright orange male. On average 999 of the tricolor cats whose coat has three colors. That is just how genetics work.

However they only exist in much smaller numbers and male cats make up the vast majority of all orange tabbies accounting for 80. Yes but not all. The majority of orange tabby cats are male.

Youve probably already read the genetics of orange cats but it basically comes down to this. However a female cat that is orange has to inherit the red factor from both parents whereas a male cat can inherit it only from the mother. Well its not that orange female cats are rare it is simply that an orange cat is more likely to be a male.