Breeding Plans:

No planned litters until 2009

Probable  matings include:

GC Gwydian Frea X  Oyate Ashepoo River

Bb1/aa/dd/CC    X    b1b1/aa/Dd/Ccs

Blue  X  Cinnamon

Kittens would all be solid Ebony, Blue, Cinnamon or Fawn.

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Gwydian Melian  X  Oyate Prince of Tides

Ww/Bb1/Aa/D-/C-    X    bb1/aa/Dd/Ccs

White (Ebony Tabby)  X  Chestnut

Kittens could be either tabby or solid in Ebony, Blue, Chesnut, Lavender, Cinnamon or Fawn.  Silver/Smoke is also a possibility.

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Injoi's Idril of Gwydian  X  GC Oyate Boone Winter Wind

or

Injoi's Idril of Gwydian  X  GC Gwydian the Elvenking Dale of Oyate

Bb/Oo/Ss/Aa/DD/CC/Ll    X    Bb1/Aa/D-/C-

Ebony Patch Ticked Tabby & White  X  Ebony Ticked Tabby

Kittens could be either tabby or solid in Red, Ebony, Chestnut or Tortie, with or without White.

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There is a color, pattern and coat length for everyone's taste.....                                                                       ......though these cats are NOT for everyone!

Basic coat colors for Orientals:

CFA    -    TICA

*White

*Ebony  -  Black  

*Blue

*Chestnut  -  Chocolate

*Lavender  -  Lilac

*Cinnamon

*Fawn

*Red

*Cream

Tabby Patterns for Orientals:

*Ticked

*Mackerel

*Spotted

Classic

*(colors and patterns our cats could produce)

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Each cat has two genes (color, agouti, tabby pattern, silver, points, dilute & bi-color)  and gets one gene from each parent.  One color gene from Mom, one color gene from Dad.  Same with all the other color variable genes.  One from each.  The more dominant the gene passed to the kitten is the color they become.   Ebony is dominant over Chestnut, Chestnut is dominant over Cinnamon.  Blue is the dilute of Ebony, Lavender of Chestnut and Fawn of Cinnamon and dominance of dilutes works in the same order.  Each gene will try to match up with  the gene from the opposite parent, if it does not, the most dominant color (from the two passed along genes) is the color the cat becomes, the recessive color is what will be the 'carried' color.    If the two color genes match, the cat will become that color.  To get a Fawn cat, BOTH parents must be/carry both Cinnamon and dilute.  Two Fawn parents will ONLY have Fawn offspring, as the least dominant color is Cinnamon and two dilutes can ONLY produce dilutes.   If a cat is Ebony, remember that they also can carry a different second color so an Ebony boy (who carries Cinnamon) mated to a Cinnamon female *could* have either Ebony or Cinnamon.  She will only give Cinnamon (since she IS Cinnamon and if she carries something it cannot be dominant to Cinnamon so it MUST also be Cinnamon)  and he can give either Ebony or Cinnamon (Ebony carrying Cinnamon remember). 

Longhair, Pointed and Dilute all will work the same, the two genes try to match, if not, the Dominant of the pair will rule.  Shorthair is dominant to Longhair, Full Color is dominant to Pointed and Undiluted is dominant over dilute.   These three recessives MUST match, one from each parent or the dominant rules.  Recessives received from just one parent can manifest itself generations later if the gene is passed to it's offspring and it will not show until it finds it match in the other parents gene.  The Pointed gene (from Siamese) is a good example of this.

Silver, White, Agouti (tabby) and Bi-color work a little differently.  If one parent passes along any of those genes, the kitten WILL become that color/pattern without trying to 'match' with the other parent's gene as these are always DOMINANT and ALWAYS visible.

Red is a sex-linked color that operates very differently in inheritance.  Red is never carried, it is always visible or it is not there.  Cream is the dilute of Red.  If Mom is Red, the sons are red.  If Dad is Red, the daughters are Tortioseshell.  If both parents are Red, all offspring will be Red.  Parti-colored females have two color genes so they can pass either color to their offspring.  The Red cat is actually another color under the red and carries a second color gene like the rest, they just do not SHOW those colors (Tortieshells do show them as an example). 

White & Red colors mask the color the cat actually *is*, the White or Red is a cover over their true color.

Bi-color cats, Silver cats, Red cats, Tabby cats and White cats all come from parents who *show* those colors/patterns as those cannot be carried.  If the parents are not White the offspring cannot be White.  It works the same with Red, Silver & Bi-color and Tabby although White can mask everything else, since it is THE dominant color. 

All cats also have two sets of Tabby patterns, again one from each parent.  Order of dominance is Ticked over Mackerel, Mackerel over Classic.  The Spotted 'gene' works with the pattern to change it to spots.  You can see the underlying pattern in a Spotted cat by noticing either Mac or Classic in the distribution of the spots.  Solid cats also carry two Tabby patterns, they are just missing the Agouti gene which expresses the pattern.  Kittens need only ONE Agouti gene to become a Tabby.  Two Solid cats cannot produce a Tabby.  Solid Red cats will almost always show Tabby markings because the Red 'cover' is incomplete but they are still genetically Solid cats.

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"The cat has too much spirit to have no heart"

-Ernest Menaul

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