marking babies

[Dekota]

Any suggestions for marking the babies, to be able to tell them apart? After they reach the age of having their eyes open?

Thank you

[SammysMom]

Nail polish on different nails can help.

[DaSquirrelMom]

Make a small dot on their white belly with a colored magic marker.

[Cesta]

I use colored nail polish on their back nails, too. With two teen girls in the house, I have a great variety to choose from. :dance

If you want to keep their names straight, make sure you write them down w/ their color. Mine often become 'blue boy' and 'green girl' over time. :grin3 Sometimes I don't even remember what their original name was! :hidechair

[Dekota]

I have been using the nail polish, but they seem to be wearing it off after a couple of days. It's really time consuming to have to repaint 9 babies about a month and a half old. :jump:confused:

[Cesta]

Did you try the Sharpie dot on their tummies?

Trying to think of an easy system? :thinking

What kind of caging are they in? Are they all sharing one enclosure? That's A LOT of babies in one. It would make it easier if they were in two because you can tape their chart to the outside, and you only need 3 or 4 colors.

Say they're in two:

Each bin (assuming you have 2):

First boy and first girl need no color
Boy #2 and Girl# 3 same color
Extra baby- different color

So you can narrow it down to 2-3 colors if they're in separate enclosures, and 4 need no color at all. If they're all together, it's going to be hard!
I've never had that many babies at once! :bowdown

[Dekota]

I only have one inside cage for them :sadness. So each has their own color. But males are left rear foot and females are right rear foot. And they are in a wire cage.
:grouphug Thanks to all for the help.

[meganmarire]

I marked the top of their heads with nail polish.

[kcassidy]

Here you go https://www.valleyvet.com/ct_detail.html?pgguid=30e0767e-7b6a-11d5-a192-00b0d0204ae5&gas=colored%20markers

or something similar