Cattery Narbondel

The color cream

Cream point

Cream lynx bicolor

Kapitein Albondiel of Narbondel
Cattery Narbondel

Cream lynx mitted

Carambouli's Zuvy
Cattery Narbondel

Cream is the dilution of red, this means that the color is even lighter.
The pattern shows when the cat matures and often it is difficult to determine.
It happends that a kitten leaves the nest without us knowing if it has a point or a mitted pattern.

breeding with red and cream:
Red is a sex linked gene. The red gene is only carried on the x-chromosome. All females are xx and males are xy.
Each cell converts the coding of 1 x in the female cat during development.
This is random and u can see this at the spots red/cream in torties.
In cells were 1 x-chromosome has the red gene and the other x-chromosome does not,
u will see red or cream color were the red gene is turned on and were it is turned off u will see seal, blue, choc or lilac.
A tortie female has 1 red gene Oo.
A female with 2 red genes OO will be red or cream, it doesn't matter here wich chromosomes are turned off because they are all red.
Because males are the combination of 1 x-chromosome and 1 y-chromosome, they only need 1 red gene to be red or cream.