Is my MC (male) kitten a tortie/patched?

Hi Guys,

I am new to this forum and I am new to maine coon's too (not to cats though). Recently we adopted a silver white tabby MC from a breeder. The little one is now 4 months and 3 weeks (we took him in 2 weeks ago). He is such a softy and he is such a smart boy. When we adopted him, he was mostly silver/grey with 4 white legs/paws with some orangeish tinge around the mouth. But over the past 2 weeks his silver/grey is turning a slight brownish tinge and the orange around the mouth is spreading a wee bit along to the jaw.

My question is, what colour will he be. He is currently in the process of being registered so just want to know what the colour is. From my reading he has some tortie/patched traits (orange, white and silver/grey) but have been told that it is rare for males to be so. More of a concern is that tortie males tend to be infertile (which is making think twice about getting him a companion - he already has play pals at home, 7 others in fact).

Hope you guys can help me out here. Thanks :).
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He looks like a black silver with tarnish.....
There are quite a few male torties in MC's though & yep mostly infertile although there has been recordings of mating's by a couple.......

Hi jckkerison,

Thanks for the response. We adopted the kitty intact so was hoping to have some offsprings, just to keep the family company with cats, not interested in showing or selling. We have actually found his partner, a black silver mackerel tabby (father is black smoke and mother is red mackerel tabby) who is a month younger than he is, will probably check her out again soon to see her progress.

Just out of curiosity is tarnishing undesirable in show cats? I have read various views on that.

Thanks for the help :).

Tarnish can mark the cats down at shows all depends on how bad it is....Attachment 7884Attachment 7885
My boy as a kitten showing tarnish & as an adult, luckily tarnish only mentioned in younger show days & he went to the top in one of the registrations.....

Ah. Thanks for the enlightenment. Really appreciate it :).

Can't wait for my boy to grow up :).