Orange Tabby Cats Usually Male

The gene that codes for orange fur is on the X chromosome.

Orange tabby cats usually male. The cause of this is genetics. The tricolored cats usually have three colors orange black and white among its various derivations. About 81 percent of orange cats are male says Bell.

Searching tabby cats in Google will prove another point though. This gives the impression all orange cats are male when this isnt actually the case. It is on the X chromosome.

Since any red color is epistatic all orange cats are tabbies and solid red show cats are usually a low contrast ticked tabby. Many of the people say that the orange tabby cats are usually male cats. Faint stripes are still stripes nonetheless.

While female cats will inherit an orange coat only if they carry the orange gene on both X chromosomes if a male carries the orange gene at all he will be orange says Konecny. However they only exist in much smaller numbers and male cats make up the vast majority of all orange tabbies accounting for 80. Orange tabby cats are almost always male.

Although it may appear that all orange tabby cats are male the truth is that female ginger tabby cats do exist. The X chromosome is the reason for the orange coloring. Well thats not entirely true.

But have you ever wondered why it is that these orange kitties are usually. And its not some sort of magic its genetics. There is no monetary value per se associated with a female orange tabby cat.