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Arutima
my mama calico cat got knock up by a papa calico cat, and we got 4 mini calico cats.. three of them died due to some complications... Here's a picture with mama calico and her last mini calico
>> Anonymous
I am calling bullshit on this story. Male calicos are very, very rare; almost impossible. Any male cat that is calico would definitely be sterile - it would require a rare anomaly involving the sex chromosomes.

Cute kittens, though.
>> Arutima
>>133066


Yes they are very rare indeed, but they does exist. Most of them are infertile, and the ones that arent does not produce very strongs kittens, kind of like Calico kitten Genocide.
>> Anonymous
>>133068
And if that's true, it explains why most of the kittens died - so it's plausible.
>> Anonymous
Another possibility is that the male "calico" is a chimera, it's like the opposite of twins. It's when two genetically different embryos fuse together inside the cat to make a single kitten. This could possibly account for the male's feritlity.
Post pix of the male cat for confirmation.
>> Anonymous
Klinefelter male calicos are indeed always infertile, so all the fertile male calicos are chimeristic in nature. That means they have their colouring from two originally separate fertilized embryos, but the sperm of the chimera kitty comes just from one, and as such is genetically either that of a black or an orange cat.

There is for some reason a myth about fertile male calicos being incredibly valuable. I think I've even seen it mentioned on /an/ once. Obviously it isn't true. While a fertile male calico is a rare curiosity, it doesn't have any unusual genetic quirk for creating more fertile calico males, which is probably the only reason anyone would want to pay lots and lots of money for them.
>> Anonymous
Have we been trolled or does the OP have a chimera?
>> Anonymous
i was just reading on male calicos/torties thr other day on this site:
http://www.messybeast.com/mosaicism.htm
>> Anonymous
>>133485
My orange female kitty had a tortie brother, but this article makes me wonder if he was a tortie at all. I think their parents were both orange.
>> Muhamed Christbergstein
>>133446
Male.


Chimeraism is one possibility I had not considered.

The theory I was thinking about was that perhaps the mother has an extra X chromosome. This would allow for her to be calico as well as create a condition whereby her male children could be born calico as well (though the possibility exists of orange or black children as well)

Also, XXX females tend to still be fertile unlike XXY males.

I suppose that if indeed there is some genetic abnormality in play (my money is still on all 4 kittens having been female normal calicos) that either the mother is XXX or the father is a chimera.

If the father is a chimera though, as far as the contributing DNA though that would only be from either a black or orange male, not a combination of both and so all four kittens would still have been normal female calicos.
>> Muhamed Christbergstein
The odds of 4 kittens all being born calico to a normal female calico and a normal orange or black male are 1/250. This is not so small of a chance as to find it unreasonable compared with the odds of:

1. the father being a chimera (quite rare)
2. the mother being XXX (1/1000 in humans)
3. the father being a fertile male calico (extremely rare bordering on non-existant)
>> Anonymous
But, on a more important note:

The calico kitten and mother are adorable.
>> Anonymous
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