Are Orange Cats Almost Always Male

All tri colored cats are not considered calicos or torties Duke is white with 2 varieties of orange on him and is definately not a calico.

Are orange cats almost always male. While it is a fact that there is a higher ratio of orange tabbies that are male the exact percentage is actually about 80 percent toms to 20 percent queens. Orange tabby cats are about 8020 male to female. For a female cat to be orange she must inherit two orange genes one from her mother orange calico or tortoiseshell and one from her father who must be orange.

Orange coat color is not found in male cats. This gives the impression all orange cats are male when this isnt actually the case. So a cat with black and orange fur must have two X chromosomes and therefore be a female.

The gene that codes for orange fur is on the X chromosome. Calico cats are almost always female. Well its not that orange female cats are rare it is simply that an orange cat is more likely to be a male.

In the absence of other influences such as color inhibition that causes white fur the alleles present in those orange loci determine whether the fur is orange or not. Calico and tortoiseshell cats however are almost always female. Most but certainly not all orange tabby cats are male.

If you spot a male calico its highly likely that this cat is sterile or unable to reproduce. Orange tabby cat toms outnumber queens approximately four to one. Out of the 1 in 3000 calicoes that is male only 1 in 1000 of those is actually virile.

Although it may appear that all orange tabby cats are male the truth is that female ginger tabby cats do exist. Which almost 99999 of the time is sterile. There is no monetary value per se associated with a female orange tabby cat.