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I see how alot of people number litters and right now I dont have enough to get confused on what litter came from which parents but next season if all goes well I will. So I was trying to figure out what is the best way or easiest way to number a litter (say 2 albinos x 2 salmons = 2 litters of dh sunglows)
How would you number the same type of litters produced from 2 different breedings? Any opinions or advice would be great Thanks in advance

2008HETALB.A Male1, 2008HETALB.A Male2

2008HETALB.B Male1, 2008HETALB.B Male 2

etc.
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I do a lot of "normal" BRB breeding so end up with many "normal" looking BRB's. Of course most of my breeders are intensly colored so my "normals" are...you get the picture.

Any ways, I name ech of my animals for identification purposes and seems wrong to ferer to them as M5 or F16. So along with the name each has a two digit anreviation like our states. So, Fred is FR and Wilma is WI (yeah I have a Fred/Wilma pair, Fred does Betty as well since there is no Barney in the colony)

So my baby naming is DD-SS-YYNN where...

DD = Dam code
SS = Sire code
YY = Year (just added this part this year as I'm repeating pairings)
NN = number in litter

So, WI-FR-0915 would the 15th baby identified from my 32009 litter from Wilma and Fred.

I decided to put the Dam first to readily differentiate between litters, my males typically sire two litters a year.

That's how I do it and why.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count (05/26/2009):
36.51 BRB
29.42 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

I do a lot of "normal" BRB breeding so end up with many "normal" looking BRB's. Of course most of my breeders are intensly colored so my "normals" are...you get the picture.

Any ways, I name each of my animals for identification purposes and seems wrong to refer to them as M5 or F16. So along with the name each has a two digit abreviation like our states. So, Fred is FR and Wilma is WI (yeah I have a Fred/Wilma pair, Fred does Betty as well since there is no Barney in the colony)

So my baby naming is DD-SS-YYNN where...

DD = Dam code
SS = Sire code
YY = Year (just added this part this year as I'm repeating pairings)
NN = number in litter

So, WI-FR-0915 would the 15th baby identified from my 2009 litter from Wilma and Fred.

I decided to put the Dam first to readily differentiate between litters, my males typically sire two litters a year.

That's how I do it and why.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count (05/26/2009):
36.51 BRB
29.42 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

so it pretty much goes to naming your animal to keep track of litters.WOW i better start thinking of names lol but that is what i was thinking too. I thought about the way topnotch said how to do it and that seemed simple except like in my case and prob many others when you have 5 or more pairings of the same type of breedings.It seemed like i would have to make a very big file to see ok litter A is from this pairing litter B from these etc...Thanks for some food for thought

Plus in subsequent years your customers can pick out non, semi or fully related animals as they desire without a lot of you researching what exactly they already have and what you currently have that will fit their wants.

Not that there is not still requests for my recomendations and thoughts on what to get with what they have, just simplifies the process.

for example, they have a female WI-FR-xx from 2007 amd want another just like her...duh, look at the WI-FR-09xx babies. If they don't find the one they want, then maybe the BE-FR-09xx babies (half sibs)
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count (05/26/2009):
36.51 BRB
29.42 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

I just numbered my first 2 litters ever. I don't know how my code will compare with the experienced breeders, but it works for me for now. All of my breeders have names. I only breed columbians and central americans so far. I had a litter of 6 ca boas born 5-6. There codes are CA#RS. The CA is to designate central american boas. The # part went from 1-6. The RS is the initials of the dad and the mom (Rosy Boy and Satin). I did the same for my litter of 31 columbian boas. They are COL#DL and numbered 1-31.
COL=columbian/#=baby 1-31/D=Dream(dad)/L=Lilly(mom)
This method may not work if I get really big into breeding my boas, but it works great for my meager numbers right now.