Brown Burmese Cat Colours
Average lifespan 16 to 18 years.
Brown burmese cat colours. It s rarely found outside of cats purposefully bred for the mutation. Burmese are thought to descend from sacred brown cats kept by student priests in the palaces and temples of ancient burma modern myanmar. The solid dark sable brown burmese is in a league of its own but the now popular dilute divisions include the chocolate blue lilac red cream and the brown chocolate blue and lilac torties. But the color is a genetic mutation of the black gene diluting it to a brown color.
Use this colour mating chart to determine the likely outcomes. The 4 tortie colours are only available as girls as the tortie colouring comes through on a female gene. Burmese colours brown blue chocolate lilac red cream brown tortie blue tortie chocolate tortie lilac tortie. Nose leather and paw pads are brown.
If you re looking into pedigreed cats such as persians and havana browns you will find true chocolate colored cats. Nose leather is a light warm brown and paw pads are a warm pinkish tan. There are 10 recognised burmese colours in australia. Not sure what colours to expect from your litter.
Weight males 5 4kg to 6 8kg. 6 possible male colours and 10 possible female colours. Chocolate the chocolate european burmese can vary from a light to a dark honey beige. A champagne colored burmese is a warm honey beige shading to a pale gold tan on the underside.
Brown the brown european burmese should be a rich warm seal brown color. However degrees of shadings exist with some browns being slightly lighter or darker. Perhaps you ve seen oriental breed cats with dark fur on their sides and back as. Females 3 1kg to 4kg.
Temperament burmese cats are home loving friendly and affectionate intelligent loyal and devoted playful and good with children and other animals. Kittens are often lighter in color but will darken with maturity. A kitten s coat darkens as it matures. The dark brown offspring did indeed breed true and became the foundation cats of the burmese breed.
Nose leather and paw pads are slate gray. Colours available in a variety of colours including the original brown a rich warm seal brown as well as blue. Burmese colour mating chart. Brown blue chocolate lilac red brown based red chocolate based cream blue based cream lilac based carries blue.
Blue burmese have a medium blue coat with a slightly lighter belly.