a female?!?
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yes. it is extremely extremely rare to have a male calico.
very rarely they are male
if you have a male, you are very lucky. males are uncommon.
Most calicos are female. Only 1 in 3000 calicos are males.
A true calico is either a female or a sterile male.
My biology teacher says that the third colour gene is in the xx gene in female cats. Male cats have xy so they don't have the third colour gene. If you have a tom that is calico and he is fertile hold on to him you have a treasure. I have also seen kittens with three colours a birth that fade to two colours by six months.
mostly yes, but very rarely there will be a male.
Yes, all tortie or calico cats are female, apart from the very rare odd male who has a genetic abnormality. It is a sex linked colour detirmined by genes on the X chromosome. XX is female and XY is male. A calico cat has a gene for orange on one X and a gene for black on the other. Some of the skin pigment cells follow one and some follow the other giving the mix of black and orange. The males only have one X so all the cells just follow the orange gene if he has it.
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