Do calico cats only have female babies?

Question

I know that calico cats are most often female. However, I recently heard that a calico cat does not have male kittens. Is this true?

Answer 1

No they can and do have both males and females...almost all of the time...calicos and torties are female.  ( I say almost because you always hear of someone having a male cally :)

Answer 2

no, calico cats could have male kittens, the male kittens just  wouldn't be calico

Answer 3

No, they have both males and females.

Here's an article about Calicos you might find interesting:

http://www.absolutelycats.com/22Calico.h...

Answer 4

No.  It's the father that dertermines gender-not the mother cat.  What you are probably thinking of are male calicos-99.9% or so are sterile and can't reproduce at all.  The few non sterile male calicos that exist usually sire only sterile kittens.

The calico gene causes degradation of one of the X chromosomes.  In females, the other X chromosome takes up the slack so that there are no health issues.  Males are XY so that the degradation of the X usually causes sterility but male calicos are far more common than people think.

There is a chance that male kittens from a female calico may not make it to birth quite as often as their sisters but at the theoretical most, only HALF (not all) of the male kittens from a female calico that are concieved won't make it to birth.  That still leaves an average of 1/3 of the litter that survives birth male and the actual number is usually higher.

Answer 5

No that is not true, they have both males and females. If they didn't have male kittens, then how would they keep going?

Answer 6

a long time ago my mom was telling us she had a male calico..... yes its possible too have a male but very rare......

Answer 7

No the can have both genders

Answer 8

Calico cats can have male kittens they just will not be calico or tortieshell. Those two colors are attached to the gene that determines s*x. They are always female and if a male does occur he is sterile.