| KaDoKits Exotics presents Bi-Color Genetics... Bi-Colors or "with white" If I had to chose my favorite color/pattern of all time, I would have to chose a bi-color. Any color or additional pattern is fine. That with white patterning is what makes me go "ohhh, ahhh!" A high white calico or dilute calico is probably my favorite. But.... add silver and stripes to a calico and you have another one of my favorites... a silver patched tabby & white dominant or dilute. On the tabbies I do prefer more color and less white. |
Pie-bald White Spotting Gene The white spotting gene, or the bi-color gene, is dominant. If a cat has one bi-color gene, it will be a bi-color and is heterozygous for bi-color. If a cat has two bi-color genes, it got one from each parent, it is homozygous for bi-color and will only produce bi-color kittens....even when bred to a non bi-color. The homozygous bi-color is more likely to produce vans and high white kittens than the heterozygous bi-color. Generally, (remember, Mother Nature likes to break the rules!) a van will always produce bi-colors whether bred to a non-bi-color, bi-color, high white, or van a bi-color to a bi-color breeding can produce non-bi-colors, bi-colors, high whites and vans a non-bi-color bred to a van will produce bi-colors and high whites, but not vans |
| Non Bi-Colors I use the term "non bi-color" to refer to any patterned cat that is not a bi-color. I don't use "solid" because any pattern can have the bi-color gene added to it. A solid is also called a "self" These make the standard bi-colors: (black & white, blue & white, red & white, cream & white, calico, dilute calico) The tabbies make the second most popular bi-colors: (brown tabby & white, blue tabby & white, red tabby & white, cream tabby & white, brown patched tabby & white, blue patched tabby & white) The silver tabbies make the prettiest bi-colors, but, of course, I am biased: (black silver tabby & white, blue silver tabby & white, red silver tabby & white, cream silver tabby & white, black silver patched tabby & white, blue silver patched tabby & white) The silver bi-colors: Smokes: (black smoke & white, blue smoke & white, red smoke & white, cream smoke & white, calico smoke; dilute calico smoke) Shadeds: (shaded black & white, shaded blue & white, shaded silver & white, blue shaded silver & white, shaded red "cameo" & white, shaded cream & white, shaded calico, shaded dilute calico) Shells: (black shell & white, blue shell & white, chinchilla & white, blue chinchilla & white, red shell & white, cream shell & white shell calico, dilute calico shell) The bi-color color-points or pointed bi-colors My secret passion!! This combines the bi-color gene with the Himalayan color-point to make blue-eyed kittens with both patterns! (seal-point & white, blue-point & white, red "flame" -point & white, cream-point & white, tortie-point & white, blue-cream-point & white) Chocolates, Lilacs, Cinnamons and Fawns can come in bi-color. Since I don't work with those colors, I chose not to discuss them. |
calico van
| brown tabby & white high white |
red & white bi-color
| black & white low white |
solid black...or...black self
cream silver mctabby & white
| black smoke & white bi-color with ghost tabby markings |
| silver patched tabby & white |
silver undercoat
| Did you know about the BEAUTIFUL, GORGEOUS, & AMAZING ODD-EYED AND BLUE-EYED BI-COLORS??????? Once in awhile, a bi-color kitten is born with amazing blue eyes, or one eye is blue and the other eye is copper. |
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