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My Siamese/Manx

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Question
My beautiful girl, Annie, I am pretty sure is pregnant. This will be her 2nd litter. I bottled raised her from the time she was just a few days old, she still had a dried piece of umbilical cord on her. I think she is what they call a Manx Siamese , she's a rumpie. She looks Siamese except she has no tail whatsoever and her back legs are longer than her front. But to point of my question.. This litter was an accidental one, she slipped out. Well a large orange cat, and a large black cat was in the area, both I'm sure bred with her. What are the slight chances of her having babies with blue eyes, or possible calicos? I am not sure if it us just an orange and a black that makes Calicos or if her having white on her and bred to an orange or black could cause it. The babies will definately find loving homes, I was just wondering what might come from this litter.

Answer
Cori,

Here's the deal, both cats may have bred her, so the litter could have 2 sires!!!!!

If she is truly pointed (Siamese pattern) with no other white, and neither the Orange nor the the Black have white, there will be no calicos.  

Unless the Black or the Orange is also carrying the Siamese pattern, the kittens should not have the Siamese pattern.  Thus, with no white and no Siamese pattern, the odds of getting blue eyes are almost nil.

If she is a seal point, you can get blacks or brown tabbies out of the black and red tabby males and females or brown tabby males or tortoiseshell/tabby females out of the orange male (probably a red tabby).  If she has a different color of points (ears, face, paws and tail), then there could be some other variations on this, depending on what recessive coat color genes the black and orange male may be carrying.

You could let me know what you do get.

Best regards... Norm.