Are Orange Cats Almost Always Male. Only about two out of 10 orange cats are female, so if you have an orange girl cat, consider yourself blessed with an extra special pet! Only one out of 3,000 tortoiseshell cats is male.
Only one out of 3,000 tortoiseshell cats is male. Solid, tabby, bicolour, colorpoint and are rarely calico or tortoiseshell. Only if both x chromosomes have the orange gene will you get an orange female.
The gene has two versions, or alleles.
You might be surprised to find out that orange cats are almost always male. I think what the others were trying to say in a nutshell was that is girl cats can be any colour: Cats present coats of an infinite variety of shades: This is a really interesting fact and it tells us that sex and coat color genetics are somehow related, at least in orange cats.
