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Below are pictures of day 2-8 and you can see the rest on my other site.

Day 2
This little baby is 2 days old. You can see the milk in the belly, their skin is transparent, at this age you can see what color the eyes will be, if they will be pink or black. The toes are all joined together and the ears are attached to the head. You can tell this baby is going to be a dumbo dark eyed, because of where the ears are placed on the head they are more down below the eye and point down, where top ears would be a little more above the eye and point upwards. I'll try to get pictures and compare the two in the future.
Some people can't tell the difference but some can like myself.




Day 3
This baby is a little bit bigger now and not much has changed. You can see that he will have dark eyes and that he is also dumbo.
Day 4
The babies are now starting to show markings, their front toes are starting to show individual toes instead of all conected, the back toes are still together. The ears are starting to come away from the head, they are no longer attached. You can see the dark patterns on them showing.
Day 5
Peach fuzz can be seen on the bodies the toes are still seperating, you can see the markings better, on this picture you can tell that one of them is a blazed veriegated the other will be a possum faced with a mark over the right eye.
Day 6
Markings are even better to see and are coming in more, you can see more dots on the veriegated, the front feet are getting little nails. The back feet are still trying to seperate more. Milk can still be seen in their bellies.
Day 7
They are getting more peach fuzz on their bodies, the toes on the back feet are now seperated and starting the nails. Everyones ears are away from the head, they are no longer stuck to the side of the head. They are all dumbo in this litter, you can really see how the ears point down on the blazed veriegated.
Day 8
2 boys on the left hand side the rest are girls. Today the back toenails are formed, the hair is getting thicker, the milk can still be seen in their bellies. They are getting bigger each day.
 
   
 

I ran out of room but you can see this on http://maritime-rattery.20fr.com/photo3.html