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Old 06-11-2008, 06:26 PM
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bsh blue colour query
hi all.i have a bsh blue kitten that has a silver tinge down the middle of his back,Does anyone know if this will change or will he always have it.(dad is a lilac mum is a blue}.
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Re: bsh blue colour query
I think its a quirk of the colour - but I am sure someone will be along to correct me. I have an oriental blue and he has silvery tips to his hair in some places.

In a kitten it could be he is just changing coat as well. Their blue colour changes as they get older, so you may be seeing a patch of blue on the change either going lighter or the rest is getting darker.
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Re: bsh blue colour query
Some babies show silvering as kittens which goes some will always have a bit of silvering which of course in the show ring will mark them down a bit....

I have been told that breeding lilac to blue will not always produce the best blues or lilacs for the show bench?

what are you planning on doing with your baby?
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Re: bsh blue colour query
thanks for the replies ,the kitten was for sale..It was actually reserved today.
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Re: bsh blue colour query
Do you breed then, just being nosy
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Re: bsh blue colour query
How old is the kit? I think most of the blues go through a stage where they have a little silver tinge?
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Re: bsh blue colour query
we are part time breeders of bsh.have had a few blue kits but never had any with solver tinge before
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Re: bsh blue colour query
aww put some pictures up of your cats and kittens, we would love to see them,
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Re: bsh blue colour query
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I have been told that breeding lilac to blue will not always produce the best blues or lilacs for the show bench?

The strength of colour is dependent on the number of rufous polygenes not what recessive colours the cat may or may not carry. I think you hear a lot of stuff like that were people do a mating and the colour is different to what they have had before and then that becomes the explanation for the difference in colour in their opinion, but doesn't mean that it is technically correct. I have heard the same about seals carrying dilute.

There is a siamese breeder well known for the correct lilac and blue points and her peds have a mixture of blues and lilacs in all of them, with no ill effect on either colour.
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Re: bsh blue colour query
Yes there are many "myths" about colours and how they're inherited - another well-known one is that having a silver parent will make a brown tabby "cold" in colour. Totally untrue -again it's dependent on polygenes and nothing to do with colours carried, or colour of the parents.

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The strength of colour is dependent on the number of rufous polygenes not what recessive colours the cat may or may not carry. I think you hear a lot of stuff like that were people do a mating and the colour is different to what they have had before and then that becomes the explanation for the difference in colour in their opinion, but doesn't mean that it is technically correct. I have heard the same about seals carrying dilute.

There is a siamese breeder well known for the correct lilac and blue points and her peds have a mixture of blues and lilacs in all of them, with no ill effect on either colour.
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