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Breeding of Scottish folds The Breeding of Scottish Folds can be both very rewarding and frustrating at the same time. Most people do not realize that usually less than half the kittens born will develop folded ears. Unlike other types of cat breeds, if you have 4 kittens in a litter, you have four saleable kittens. However, with folds, if we are lucky, we will get only two with folded ears. The other two kittens will be termed "straight eared" Scottish folds. Since they do not have folded ears, their desirability is less, and the price is less, accordingly. They still make wonderful pets. This is one of the reasons that folded eared kittens are so highly priced. Since only kittens or cats with folded ears carry the folded ear gene, they are the only ones that can pass it on to their offspring. If a Scottish fold kitten or cat has straight ears, it does not carry the gene, and cannot reproduce folded ears in its offspring. This means that even if two registered straight eared Scottish Folds are bred together they can never produce a folded offspring. Only one of a Scottish fold kittens parents should be folded. In order to increase the number of folded kittens in a litter, some unscrupulous breeders will breed a folded eared cat to another folded eared cat. This increases the number of folded kittens, but also produces other birth defects, most commonly skeletal lesions. |
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