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Post by lexluther on Jun 12, 2014 16:47:07 GMT
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Post by saddlers on Jun 12, 2014 17:45:43 GMT
You will get there with time. I am confident I could tell my lot apart if they were in a single group, just keep looking you will find identifying features
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Post by lexluther on Jun 12, 2014 20:05:17 GMT
I went home at lunch today and checked on these little guys. I noticed one had a small tuft of black fur on his chest. I couldn't check the other other one because he was hiding in his box. Maybe I need to watch them more
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d1aneb
Warbling Degu
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Post by d1aneb on Jun 12, 2014 21:58:54 GMT
I've had my two goos a couple of months now and it's only been this last week I've been able to tell them apart for definite. Titch has a little black spot on his forehead which Tiny doesn't have. You'll notice something eventually.
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Post by kierah on Jun 13, 2014 9:41:42 GMT
they are really similar sometimes like kids >.< but in time they will differentiate and it'll be automatic :')
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Post by uglibug on Jun 14, 2014 7:40:16 GMT
We tend to look at the ears. Due to squabbles 2 of our boys have tears in their ears, Sleepy has a tatty left ear and Lofty is missing his right one. Need to look a bit closer at the other 2 though, Dopey has cloudy eyes and Freaky is a little bit bigger than the others. Something will come up to make them recognisable. :-)
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Post by animalmadchloe on Jun 14, 2014 9:30:46 GMT
I couldn't tell mine apart for months when I got them when they were babies now they are older all 4 look completely different
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Post by Karma on Jun 14, 2014 13:41:58 GMT
I was the other way .... As babies mine look completely different and at a glance could tell them apart. Now their faces are absolutely identical but Herc has a white patch on his hip and he tends to have a bald patch on his back half the year.
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Post by leahharvie on Jun 17, 2014 18:46:08 GMT
Hey, I had to cheat when I was new to degus! I snipped a small patch of fur from one of the degus (on his back carefully) until I got used to what they looked like Leah
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jadeey
Warbling Degu
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Post by jadeey on Jul 5, 2014 21:05:53 GMT
With my degus i could tell them apart one week and the next week their coat was completely different but after about 2 months they developed completely different personalities and now one is bigger than the other :-)
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Post by titchycatnipsandwich on Jul 24, 2014 7:46:05 GMT
Look at the tails as well. Nyota's tail is straight (but he does curl it), whereas Zoe's tail always has a kink at the end. When I started I had two greys and two browns, which made things a lot simpler. Telling River and Trinity apart was a case of "River has a chunk missing out of one ear, Trinity has not."
And they have different personalities as well; Nyota will always come to say hello, while Zoe is shyer, but Zoe is a lot more food motivated while Nyota will take it or leave it.
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Post by rmazeds on Jul 24, 2014 11:24:06 GMT
Most of the time I have no problem but sometimes I get it wrong and then can tell suddenly by their personalities. Sasha has a few scars now from fights so she's easy to tell plus she's a bigger shape than the rest. Daisy is more a full brown, no flecks of lighter browns on her coat and she's gentle (even if biting you) and Rose has a white tip at the end of her tail, has more of a mix of browns in her coat and will bite if you put your finger through the cage (not hard but daisy will bite around the bars missing your finger entirely) I think after a while you just know without thinking.
I too snipped some fur of sasha previously cause she had a big wound I couldnt clean properly and that fur still hasn't grown back completely so you can also tell by that as it leaves a darker patch of fur on her side. Plus shes a bit grumpy lol
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Post by jamiee on Jan 3, 2015 14:35:00 GMT
Tell them apart by their personalities and the things that they generally like doing. After some time, it is easy to find small differences. For example, I have noticed one of my degus has eyes which are a lot bigger than the other degu's eyes.
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