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Persian cat: chocolate and lilac color
Can it be possible? I, as an owner,
breeding Persians and exots, pose myself such a problem quite recently. Of,
course they exist, if to see from genetic point of view. These colors are
included into standard, there is their description, but... Where are they? By
all accounts from abroad, they have such animals but for some reason they are
more often met in pedigrees of British cats as experimental partners for leading
new color into the breed, but not like exhibition stars. It had to spent lots of
time to answer the question:
What is the real situation with Lilac and
Chocolate in the Persian group?
The paradox came to light at once: there
is enough big number of Points with Chocolate and Lilac masques and practically
full absence of equally colored individuals. Probably, the fashion played its
role in it. After all, from the genetic point of view Lilac-Point color is more
difficult in receiving than, for example, Chocolate Solid (solid-monochromatic,
firm; colour). Now, thanks to fashion's jokes, selectionists are forced to word
for word take out Chocolate and Lilac either from Solid-carriers CRC (carriers
of Color-Point gene) or to work simpliciter with color lines, making copulations
Solids (moreover it is desirable of stronger type) with Colors and further
interbreeding on the Color parents. Such copulations are made for a long time,
but purposeful selection are begun recently in this direction.
Only
several breeding nurseries work today in this direction:
This is JUKI in Poland. It is world-famous nursery. But again they have
Chocolate and Lilac not like purpose of selection, but like a side effect of
Color-Points' breeding of modern type. This is Smaragd in Estonia, which specializes in Persian and Exotic cats of
Lilac color and uses in the work cats from JUKI and Finnish nurseries. Lilac cat of strong type, reached high victories by FIFE system. Pedigree
program of the nursery is various and includes copulations with Chocolate
sires.
This is Tair Polling in Ukraine, using also bloods of JUKI, but
specializing, vice versa, only in Chocolates and Tabbys. You can see first
kittens from this oldest Kharkov nursery in Moscow. This is club Irbis (FIFE) in Krasnodar, working at the Colors' bloods and
carriers of Chocolate. Today the nursery Rarity of one sire, cat of Lilac color.
Now you can see the first Lilac prosterity of show-quality.
The nursery Kelisa in Sochi is the nursery of Chocolate Persians. Prosterity
of the same type, thought-out pedigree program. The nursery plans the receiving
of Lilac Exots and the perfection of the type. Several animals of Chocolate color appeared in Russia and Ukraine, but you
can't see the result of breeding yet. Or these cats still too young, or the
pedigree program is not thought out, giving a soon result. Chocolate Exot of
Kharkov bloods lives in Saint Petersburg (owner is Orlova S.), also the city on
Neva can boast of Chocolate Color-Point, imported from Poland, one more Exot
from Kharkov is purchased by the nursery Dimarsh (Moscow).
Ther are animals of modern type in Perm and Voronezh, but because of their
remoteness from the capital or passivity of the owners we have a few information
about them. The nursery Alexander-Fred (Moscow) has three Chocolate Persian cats ( of
different blood lines), one Chocolate Exot, Chocolate Cream cat, and also
several cats-carriers of chocolate gene. The nursery plans the receiving of
Chocolate and Lilac Bicolor cats. The nursery leads common pedigree program with
Kelisa (Sochi).
Several enthusiasts in Moscow started the breeding of Chocolate and Lilac
Persians, but probably they either didn't have enough means to purchase
interesting sires or purposefully decided to go all the way of coming-into-being
of animals' type, who originally received chocolate color by the way of
interbreeding. It is necessary to understand genetic appropriatenesses of
these colors to know the rules of breeding and receiving of Lilacs and
Chocolates. Black color of the hair equally with red is considered to be
the basic color. Pigment melanin in black color - eumelanin, in red -
pheomelanin. All the rest various colors (except white) are only derivatives of
these two. Black color of the hair is formed under the influence of gene B -
black, which is defined full chromogenesis. The pigment equally assignes to the
axis of hair from the root till the tip. Gene B - black of black color is
prepotent, and behind it the row of recessive genes can be hiden:
Gene brightener D (delutor - i.e. diluent), that gives an opportunity to
receive from the given sire kittens of blue color. This gene is charged with
distribution of pigments, their more thin location along the axis of hair,
making the tone of the hair more light; Gene b of chocolate color ( special location of pigments along the axis of
the hair) , giving an opportunity to receive from the giving animal kittens of
chocolate color and, in combination with gene-brightener D, lilac color.
Consideration must be given to the fact that gene b is recessive. I.e. to
receive kittens of chocolate color, both of parents must be carrier of this
gene, and to receive the posterity of lilac color, both of parents must have at
the same time genes D and b.
Summary
Jessica Jennings If you want to see more information about Persian cats, please visit this site
www.persian-catsclub.com
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