hi! i have a turkish van oc. her tail and ears are orange, while the rest is white. she has a blue eye and orange eye. her mate is a dark gray tom with lighter patches and blue eyes. what would their kits look like?
EDIT: I completely forgot that turkish van-style white-spotting is a thing and is not the same thing as flame point. Sorry for that, I have crossed out the inapplicable parts of the original post and added new (italicized) changes.
Okay, there’s a bit of a problem with terminology here. “Dark gray tom with lighter patches” isn’t very clear. I’ll assume he’s a solid grey toms with white spotting (especially since cats without any white CANNOT have blue eyes), but in the future, use terminology from this guide. Also, the she-cat’s pattern is called flame point, but your description of that is pretty good. Different colored eyes is more common in cats whose blue eyes are from white-spotting, but I don’t think it’s impossible in a point cat, so I’ll let that go for now.
Alright, to start with, all the male kits will be ginger or cream, and all the female kits will be tortoiseshell in one way or another. If the she-cat carries dilute, the kits will each have a 50% chance of being dilute (cream toms, blue-cream tortie she-cats), otherwise they’ll all be non-dilute (ginger toms, tortoiseshell she-cats).
It sounds like you want both parents to be non-tabbies, so all the kits will be solid. However, since ginger only ever appears solid when bred in a certain way, the ginger/cream toms (and the ginger/cream patches on the tortoiseshell she-cats) will likely be mackerel tabbies despite that.
If the tom doesn’t carry any pointing or albinism genes (for instance, if he’s just a randombred), the kits will all be straight up solid. About half will inherit white patches from him. If the tom has kittypet ancestry and thus carries pointing genes, about half of the kits will be point like their mother (with the normal color on their tail and ears while the rest is very pale/white).
About half the kits will have 40% or more white spotting (such as their mother’s van pattern), and about half the kits will have 60% or less white spotting (such as their father’s white patches).
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