Newborn Kittens Gender

The reason is simple.

Newborn kittens gender. More orange kittens are male than female although the association between color and sex is not as strong as in the calico tortishell colored kitten. Kittens can only absorb colostrum during their first 16 to 24 hours of life and they should feed within two hours of birth. Newborn kittens need to feed every two to three hours. Let s take a look at the best way for pet parents to determine or confirm the sex of their kittens.

It is essential that kittens receive colostrum to protect them against disease. Beautiful baby kittens 1 female 1 male. Kitten genitals are not as developed as adult cats making gender determination a crapshoot. To learn how to determine the sex of a kitten by looking at its other physical features scroll down.

In a newborn male kitten the testicles are tiny and the scrotal sac barely recognisable e g. One female first 5 images and one male last 7 images. I find the best time to determine a kittens sex is either when they have just been born still wet or when they are about 2 3 weeks old. Determine the sex of the kitten that you just bring to home is quite difficult.

However a few characteristic differences can be observed in kittens as young as five weeks old genital spacing coat color and behavior indicating their sex. It is not that easy to know how to tell the gender of kitten especially if they are just several months of age since the visible differences and appearances between male and female cats when they still kittens are more subtle than when they already became adult. Almost all but not all kittens of calico black white and orange or tortishell black and orange color are females. Then gently lift up the kitten s tail so you can see its genitals.

Lots of people liked our video last year about how to tell if your kitten is a boy or a girl by catdogcuties so here s another video showing how to know what. You can not see the scrotal sac in the pictures of the 3 week old male kittens above however as the kitten gets older 10 weeks and its testicles start to enlarge the scrotal sacstarts to protrude outwards and become very obvious. At first glance even professionals find it tricky to distinguish a female kitten from a male. When comparing a male and female kitten together the differences are usually fairly obvious but imagine having a litter of boys or a full litter of girls.

If the genital opening looks like a small vertical slit it s a female kitten. Determining the sex or sexing as it is often called of a kitten isn t as easy as you might think. If any kittens do not receive the first milk contact your vet. And once a sex has been assigned it may not be rechecked as the kitten matures.