@thesecretsofcats: IG: thesecretsofcats💡The coat and eye color in kittens are determined by genetics, but how is this possible when a mother cat has produced a litter of kittens with different coat colors and lengths? If you’ve ever wondered about this, I have the answer for you! 🐈🐈‍⬛ 🐱 Well, the mother isn’t the only genetic contributor, and female cats can mate with several tomcats before their eggs are released and fertilized, resulting in different fathers and different genetic contributors. So the short (and fascinating!) answer is that yes, a female cat’s litter can come from different male cats! Let’s learn more about this: Superfecundation is when more than two ova are fertilized by different males within the same heat cycle of a cat or other animal, which results in conception 🐾 When a free-roaming unspayed female cat is ready to mate, she will – and with several male cats. However, cats only ovulate around 20 to 50 hours after they’ve mated. By this time, a female cat will already have the sperm needed for fertilization in their reproductive tract, and if she mates with several males, they will all have a chance at fertilizing one or more eggs 🐾 If the fertilization of two or more eggs from two or more male cats is successful, superfecundation has occurred, and the litter will be made up of kittens that may look completely different from one another because they have different fathers 🐾 If kittens from the same litter have different personalities, coat colors, eye colors and hair lengths, they probably have different fathers. However, even kittens from the same litter will vary in appearance because they receive half of their genetic makeup from their mother and the other half from their father, while their littermate may receive different genes from each parent 🐾 FOLLOW @thesecretsofcats to learn more about cats health, behavior and psychology 📚🪄🐱 #catfacts #catlife #cathealth #cateducation #funnycats #lifewithcats #catmom #learning #animalovers #adoptdontshop #calicocat #catbehaviour #cats #catreels #tricolor #happycatclub #catparent #catthings #cattrainer #cats #catlove #catlovers #catsoftiktok #catloversworld Voice: thetwocrazycatladies

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