**Breeders** How do you ID your animals?

[Cheryl Marchek aka JM]

I take a picture of every snake showing the dorsal pattern~ print it on a 4X6 card, put all the info for that snake such as hets, parentage, if I bred it or purchased it, who I purchased it from, contact info for the seller, purchase price~ basically everything on that card. Then I label that card with a number showing the type of snake BP for Ball Python or C for Corn snake, the year I made the card (which is the year I obtained the snake~ could be it's birth year or it could be the year I purchased it) and an individual snake number beginning with 01 at the beginning of each year. Such as~ the 23rd baby hatched last year is
BP-08-23
But the pied Heather produced and sent to me came in after all my babies had hatched~ she is
BP-08-58

I put all those cards into a file box~ put a sticker with the snakes number on the snakes tub, take another 4X6 card and write the snakes number ontop of it. I hang the new card on the front of the rack in front of the snakes tub and mark down feedings/shed/breedings/eggs~ whatever~ on that card. As each feed card fills up I file it in the box behind the 4X6 ID card for that snake. Before I sell a snake~ or if I ever worry I've put someone away in the wrong place I pull that snakes ID card and compare the picture taken as soon as I got the snake (or right after hatch) to the snake to ensure it IS the correctly IDed snake.

Sounds more complicated than it is. Making the ID cards is a pain~ but once they are made~ it's easy to keep track and double check that no one gets mis-IDed

[Texas Dan]

These are all great, thanks guys/gals! Keep 'em coming, the more ideas the better.

[southb]

I guess my system is complicated but here goes.

I tag the tubs with a keyring thats hold a tag. The keyring states either male or female and then a number/letter combo like this.

F01NOR

This means Female, first one I've bought, and normal genetics.
You can cross ref that to my log book and see when the animal was born, weight, eatting schedule, etc.

M35SPI

Would mean Male, 35th bought and Spider genetics.

Etc. Mainly use what works best for you.

[Texas Dan]

I guess my system is complicated but here goes.

I tag the tubs with a keyring thats hold a tag. The keyring states either male or female and then a number/letter combo like this.

F01NOR

This means Female, first one I've bought, and normal genetics.
You can cross ref that to my log book and see when the animal was born, weight, eatting schedule, etc.

M35SPI

Would mean Male, 35th bought and Spider genetics.

Etc. Mainly use what works best for you.

Well, I'm not a breeder.. lol. Just doing some research. But it's important research. Thanks for the information though.

[JohnNJ]

What methods do you guys use to ID your animals?

I just use the photo on their drivers license.

[Texas Dan]

I just use the photo on their drivers license.

Lol, or their Social?

[wolfy-hound]

Each of my snakes has a individual name. I never could get the barcodes to print on the snakes skin properly, and then of course they would shed again, then it was sticking them BACK into the printer..
It was just a mess, so I stuck with naming them. They have pics with their names in the computer so I can always ID them based on pattern if necasary.

[Peter Williams]

05-FN-02= 2005 Normal female #2
08-MBuBe-01= 2008 Bumblebee male #1
06-MHPi-01= 2006 Het Pied male #1

[jkobylka]

0828_m-yb50hpied#02 = season 2008, clutch#28, male, yellowbelly, 50% het pied, 2nd male yb 50% het pied in that clutch

That's how I do it.

Justin

[Royal Morphz]

08-MYB-01-HR1/10
ok 08 is birth year
MYB means he is a male Yellow Belly
01 means he is Male YB #1
HR1 means Hatchling Rack #1
10 means he is in tub #10