Oriental Breeds and Breed Numbers
A very wide variety of colours and patterns of Oriental Shorthair are recognised by GCCF.
each followed by the letter which designates the colour.
Havanas, Lilacs and Whites were the first Oriental breeds and already had well-known breed numbers by the time the other Oriental breeds were recognised; they therefore retained these numbers although they are somewhat anomalous.
Non-agouti: Oriental Selfs, Torties and Smokes | ||||
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Oriental Selfs | Oriental Smokes (Non-Self) | |||
Foreign White | 35 | |||
Oriental Black | 37 | Black Oriental Smoke | 42 | |
Oriental Blue | 37a | Blue Oriental Smoke | 42a | |
Havana | 29 | Chocolate Oriental Smoke | 42b | |
Oriental Lilac | 29c | Lilac Oriental Smoke | 42c | |
Oriental Red | 37d | Red Oriental Smoke | 42d | |
Oriental Cream | 37f | Cream Oriental Smoke | 42f | |
Oriental Apricot | 37fn | Apricot Oriental Smoke | 42fn | |
Oriental Cinnamon | 37k | Cinnamon Oriental Smoke | 42k | |
Oriental Caramel | 37n | Caramel Oriental Smoke | 42n | |
Oriental Fawn | 37r | Fawn Oriental Smoke | 42r | |
Oriental Torties (Non-Self) | ||||
Black Oriental Tortie | 37e | Black Tortie Oriental Smoke | 42e | |
Blue Oriental Tortie | 37g | Blue Tortie Oriental Smoke | 42g | |
Chocolate Oriental Tortie | 37h | Chocolate Tortie Oriental Smoke | 42h | |
Lilac Oriental Tortie | 37j | Lilac Tortie Oriental Smoke | 42j | |
Cinnamon Oriental Tortie | 37m | Cinnamon Tortie Oriental Smoke | 42m | |
Caramel Oriental Tortie | 37p | Caramel Tortie Oriental Smoke | 42p | |
Fawn Oriental Tortie | 37y | Fawn Tortie Oriental Smoke | 42y |
Agouti: Oriental Tabbies and Shaded | |||||
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Colour | Spotted Tabby | Classic Tabby | Mackerel Tabby | Ticked Tabby | Shaded |
Brown (Black) | 38 | 41 | 44 | 45 | 43 |
Blue | 38a | 41a | 44a | 45a | 43a |
Chocolate | 38b | 41b | 44b | 45b | 43b |
Lilac | 38c | 41c | 44c | 45c | 43c |
Red | 38d | 41d | 44d | 45d | 43d |
Tortie | 38e | 41e | 44e | 45e | 43e |
Cream | 38f | 41f | 44f | 45f | 43f |
Apricot | 38fn | 41fn | 44fn | 45fn | 43fn |
Blue Tortie | 38g | 41g | 44g | 45g | 43g |
Chocolate Tortie | 38h | 41h | 44h | 45h | 43h |
Lilac Tortie | 38j | 41j | 44j | 45j | 43j |
Cinnamon | 38k | 41k | 44k | 45k | 43k |
Cinnamon Tortie | 38m | 41m | 44m | 45m | 43m |
Caramel | 38n | 41n | 44n | 45n | 43n |
Caramel Tortie | 38p | 41p | 44p | 45p | 43p |
Fawn | 38r | 41r | 44r | 45r | 43r |
Fawn Tortie | 38y | 41y | 44y | 45y | 43y |
Black Silver | 38s | 41s | 44s | 45s | 43s |
Blue Silver | 38as | 41as | 44as | 45as | 43as |
Chocolate Silver | 38bs | 41bs | 44bs | 45bs | 43bs |
Lilac Silver | 38cs | 41cs | 44cs | 45cs | 43cs |
Red Silver | 38ds | 41ds | 44ds | 45ds | 43ds |
Tortie Silver | 38es | 41es | 44es | 45es | 43es |
Cream Silver | 38fs | 41fs | 44fs | 45fs | 43fs |
Apricot Silver | 38fns | 41fns | 44fns | 45fns | 43fns |
Blue Tortie Silver | 38gs | 41gs | 44gs | 45gs | 43gs |
Chocolate Tortie Silver | 38hs | 41hs | 44hs | 45hs | 43hs |
Lilac Tortie Silver | 38js | 41js | 44js | 45js | 43js |
Cinnamon Silver | 38ks | 41ks | 44ks | 45ks | 43ks |
Cinnamon Tortie Silver | 38ms | 41ms | 44ms | 45ms | 43ms |
Caramel Silver | 38ns | 41ns | 44ns | 45ns | 43ns |
Caramel Tortie Silver | 38ps | 41ps | 44ps | 45ps | 43ps |
Fawn Silver | 38rs | 41rs | 44rs | 45rs | 43rs |
Fawn Tortie Silver | 38ys | 41ys | 44ys | 45ys | 43ys |
Unacceptable Colours
The registration policy specifically bars any matings which could introduce
the white spotting gene, the recessive white gloving gene which is seen in Birmans or the Burmese gene,
so Orientals cannot be bred with Burmese or Tonkinese colour distribution.
(... and for those of you who know some of the old pedigrees, yes there are a few Burmese lurking there, plus Rex and just about everything else under the sun. The same goes for any breed if you trace it back far enough - either you find another breed, or an "unregistered" which could have been any pattern or variety or an import which, again, may have been hiding some very interesting recessive genes. However, these very rarely surface after so many generations.)
Oriental Bicolours are now being bred in the UK, but they cannot be used to breed non-Bicolour Orientals.
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