Silver maine coon code#
But lets take it slow.īlack is identified in the EMS code by "n" from the French "noir", blue by "a", red by "d", cream by "e", the torties by "f" and their blue-cream sisters by "g".
Then come the denominations for color, silver, piebald white and pattern. MCO/MCP = is the "identification" of our breed which is prefixed in capital letters to each colour code. Of course we limit ourselves to the colours that are allowed in the Maine Coon - there are also others but they are not relevant to our breed. The EMS code is of course not a genetic code - but it is (and not the gene code) what you get to read in the pedigree of a cat in Pawpeds and many pedigrees of clubs as color. If you know how awkward the colour designations that CFA still uses are, then you know why some, though unfortunately still not all, associations use this system (which is constantly being expanded) besides FIFe and the pawpeds database. Quite a few years ago, around 1990, Dagny Dickens, a Swedish breeder and judge now responsible for the course programme at Pawpeds, developed the EMS (Easy Mind System) code forįIFé - which simplifies and helps with colour determination and memorisation. And I also dare to predict that someday someone will exhibit a cat in "fawn" or "lilac" to establish the other modifier-conditioned colours in the gene pool of the breed and to bring them to recognition, just as many breeders absolutely want to try something new because it is something "new", something "special", something sellable, i.e. However, I think we can wait confidently for a new, recognized modifcator-conditioned color in the Maine Coon, analogous to "amber" in the Norwegian Forest Cat and the "sunshine colors" in the Siberian cat. However, TICA is currently (2019) taking the view that, since it is a "genetic registry", it must recognise all colours that are possible and there is no possibility of exclusion, but there is still a general agreement that no other colours than the "canonical ones" are permitted in breeding. Also the monochrome - solid - variants are allowed in the Maine Coon.Ĭolorpoint, which is most closely associated with the Siamese cat, like the modifier-induced black varieties "amber", "chocolate", "cinnamon" with their dilutions "light amber", "lilac" and "fawn", do not belong to the Maine Coon and are therefore not allowed. All 4 tabby patterns are also allowed: classic/blotched, mackerel, spotted - which in our breed is probably only a dissolved mackerel, but not an independent gene as in the Bengals - and ticked. But only the classic colours of the Maine domestic cat, the basic colours (full colours) black and red, their dilutions blue and cream and the silver inhibitors are permitted as "colours of the breed" - and of course the complete (epistatic) white, masking any colour as well as the piebald white appearing in various forms.
Maine Coons come in a wide variety of Colors and patterns.
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