WHO'S YOUR DADDY?Cat genetics question

[Elsveta641]

Can you guess what the father must look like by knowing what a mother cat and her litter looks like?I have this this cat who was inside until my vet could spay her (he was injured and isn't doing surgeries). She somehow managed to get pregnant, having escaped for less than an hour on two occasions :/ She had SEVEN kittens yesterday unexpectedly, believe it or not she didnt look pregnant.
The mother looks like a blue lynx point Siamese. The kittens are 4 brown/black tabby, one orange, one torbie and one white with a pink nose.
The possible fathers each have a colorpoint parent, one is solid blue (mother was dominant white masking solid blue, father was sealpoint Sphynx)and one is brown/black tabby (mother blue point, father red bicolor). So why is only one kitten possibly colorpoint (the white) when the laws of probability say 50% of the kittens should be? This cat was intentionally bred to the blue cat last year and 50% of those were colorpoint.
I'm just really curious what happened here since I am 100% sure of the possible parents genetics and something isn't adding up lol

 

[Crestcrazy2]

Can you guess what the father must look like by knowing what a mother cat and her litter looks like?I have this this cat who was inside until my vet could spay her (he was injured and isn't doing surgeries). She somehow managed to get pregnant, having escaped for less than an hour on two occasions :/ She had SEVEN kittens yesterday unexpectedly, believe it or not she didnt look pregnant.
The mother looks like a blue lynx point Siamese. The kittens are 4 brown/black tabby, one orange, one torbie and one white with a pink nose.
The possible fathers each have a colorpoint parent, one is solid blue (mother was dominant white masking solid blue, father was sealpoint Sphynx)and one is brown/black tabby (mother blue point, father red bicolor). So why is only one kitten possibly colorpoint (the white) when the laws of probability say 50% of the kittens should be? This cat was intentionally bred to the blue cat last year and 50% of those were colorpoint.
I'm just really curious what happened here since I am 100% sure of the possible parents genetics and something isn't adding up lol

Those are the cutest thing on earth
I loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove the moms color

 

[PioneerChicks]

I heard somewhere that cats can have multiple fathers. I have not studied it further, but it seems possible enough to me.

You may or may not know this, but 99.9 percent of torties and calicos are female, and 75 percent of orange-red cats are male.

Good luck!

 

[Ruby Rogue]

I agree, they probably have different kitten fathers. Oh and if that is a pure white baby and it happens to also have blue eyes, there's an 80% chance it will be deaf.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Yeah, they can have multiple fathers in a litter as can puppies which is why you sometimes see some of the babies looking very similar yet others looking like they’re not related lol

 

[Elsveta641]

I agree, they probably have different kitten fathers. Oh and if that is a pure white baby and it happens to also have blue eyes, there's an 80% chance it will be deaf.

The blue possible fathers mother was pure white with gold eyes, so Im hoping if it stays white it shouldnt be deaf, fingers crossed. She was a purebred Turkish Angora with no deafness in her pedigree

 

[ShrekDawg]

The blue possible fathers mother was pure white with gold eyes, so Im hoping if it stays white it shouldnt be deaf, fingers crossed. She was a purebred Turkish Angora with no deafness in her pedigree

She was gorgeous!!

And just out of curiosity, are these your cats or? I am curious how you know so much about them and all the possible fathers and their parents and everything haha

 

[Elsveta641]

Yes they've all been mine. I like to keep track of their little kitty genealogy Here is "possible grandpa" Smeagol, now neutered lol

 

[ShrekDawg]

Yes they've all been mine. I like to keep track of their little kitty genealogy Here is "possible grandpa" Smeagol, now neutered lol

That’s awesome! He’s handsome

 

[Bunnylady]

So why is only one kitten possibly colorpoint (the white) when the laws of probability say 50% of the kittens should be?

Take a coin, and flip it twice. Did you get "heads" one time and "tails" the other? You might have, or you might have gotten "heads" twice, or "tails" twice. You might think the laws of probability favor getting one of each, but actually, the odds of getting one "heads" and one "tails" is the same as getting two of a kind. If you flipped that coin 1000 times, you'd most likely get something pretty close to 500 "heads" and 500 "tails," but you could flip it, say, 7 times, and get "tails" every time, and that would still be perfectly normal with a sample group that small (the odds of it happening are one chance in 128). The same applies to the kittens - each kitten has a 50/50 chance of getting the Siamese pattern gene from its sire, but in a sample group as small as one litter, you could get all colorpoints, no colorpoints, or any combination of colorpoints and solids, and all of those results are perfectly normal.