Ever done the "ring test"

[PaintedPromiseRanch]

Circle is a Girl & back & forth is a Boy

hhhmmmm, that's not what the original poster said... it was definitely back and forth on Bella and the baby IS a girl... i guess we will wait and see on the other two. could it be this is just one of those old wives' tales, two different stories so you are right half the time???

 

[minijoyj]

Circle is a Girl & back & forth is a Boy

hhhmmmm, that's not what the original poster said... it was definitely back and forth on Bella and the baby IS a girl... i guess we will wait and see on the other two. could it be this is just one of those old wives' tales, two different stories so you are right half the time???

I have always used it as Circle for girl & back & forth for boy, even in human mommies. It isn't always right on the sex, but usually right on weather they are pregnant or not. If the mares are cycling it will show to. There really isn't a CHART for this just old wives tale.

 

[FoRebel]

Ok FINALLY did the ring test since I remembered to do it while I was out at the barn! According to minijoyj this is what I get.....

Trixie X Jet = BIG SWING (colt)

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Mae X Picazzo = BIG CIRCLE (filly) :aktion033:

Cricket X Sligo Eclipse = BIG CIRCLE (filly) :aktion033:

IF Trixie is pregnant, which the ring says she is... That is a VERY small baby. She's not even showing! She'd be due around June 4th if she is preggers. I know that she's had 3 foals and supposedly 2 had to be pulled (DIDN'T KNOW TILL AFTER I HAD BRED HER!). So I'll be watching her closely!

I am thrilled about the Mae/Picazzo foal because their last filly was a palomino pinto (HaazeMinis) Jeri has her and she is beautiful! So I am hoping for a buckskin filly this time! Thanks to Marnie for letting us get this cross by allowing us to purchase both Mae and Picazzo!!!

The Cricket/Sligo foal I am excited to see... Hopefully we will get a filly with appy characteristics! Thank you to (runaway ranch) Lisa for this cross!!!

I'm excited to see if this works! If it does we'll be having 2 fillies for our breeding program and a little gelding for my son to show! :aktion033:

 

[HaazeMinis]

Well I tried this test (there are two different string tests.

: ) This particular one I got 2 circles and one 1 swing on the mares I tested and from what I understood circles meant filly and swing meant colt?

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: But, what I got was the oppososit 2 colts and a filly! :new_shocked: :lol: :bgrin So maybe this year I will try it and use the swinging as filly and circle as colt! :lol:

Maybe that way I will eventually get a filly to keep... :lol: I am so tired of getting babies of outdoor plumbing....... :lol:

Someone please send the filly fairy over here soon since I have a mare going to deliver ANYDAY...so if you are not using her send her here!

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Now the other string test I use on verfying pregancy has been 100% right everytime I have used it for 3 foaling seasons now. I try it on all the mares just for fun and have even tried to trick it numerous times ( by using a open mare, a stallion, gelding, colt, filly) and it has always worked well for me to determine if a mare is open or bred.

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Well I am going to test them with this other string test this evening and see what I come up with.... :lol:

Jeri

 

[minimule]

I couldn't really remember which direction meant which. My mistake.

 

[PaintedPromiseRanch]

Now the other string test I use on verfying pregancy has been 100% right everytime I have used it for 3 foaling seasons now. I try it on all the mares just for fun and have even tried to trick it numerous times ( by using a open mare, a stallion, gelding, colt, filly) and it has always worked well for me to determine if a mare is open or bred.

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Well I am going to test them with this other string test this evening and see what I come up with.... :lol:

Jeri

what is the "other" test??

 

[HaazeMinis]

My Results were... :lol:

Poppy-Back & Forth- Due ANYDAY :bgrin Cross your fingers for a Filly! :bgrin She was VERY UNCOMFY LAST NIGHT and has a FULL bag! So we are watching her under camera like a hawk since she tried to sneak her last foal in on us and nearly succeded! If she would have done it like she wanted in "05" we would have lost that foal for sure :new_shocked: .

Jo-Jo- Back & Forth- Due Late April or Early May- Hoping for a repeat of last years colt only this time a FILLY! She usually has 342- to 344 day gestation. She was covered one cycle.

Buttercup-Back and Forth- Early spring we think? I bought her as "pasture exposed" by an an outside stallion

Punky-Nothing- I did not think she took anyway. :no: Oh well....

Jade- Big Circle- Due Late August? She was my tricky one I thought may not have settled next year

: . I really did not want late foal, but oh well, my stallion covered her one time in very late September. Maybe she settled on that heat cycle? So we will see.

So I hope Mini Mule is right on Back & Forth being a girl. :bgrin If not, oh well it was fun anyway and as long as the babies are healthy!

Oh and all of these mares are bred to my Bay Tovero stallion except Buttercup and she is bred to a black Tovero Stallion. :bgrin

The other test is to kneel on the side of the mare at her shoulder area (same concept with the ring & string) however I use a regular large washer on a string.

When you kneel down hold the ring & string up right behind the heart girth area. If it swings from you to the mare (your heart to babies heart) side to side she is bred and if it swings to you and toward the mares rear (back and forth) she is open.

This test has been a very accurate for me in determining if they are in foal or not.

: Not scientific, but I believe it does work and I have heard other breeders use this method with great success as well.

Jeri

 

[JumpinJackFarm]

The other test is to kneel on the side of the mare at her shoulder area (same concept with the ring & string) however I use a regular large washer on a string.

When you kneel down hold the ring & string up right behind the heart girth area. If it swings from you to the mare (your heart to babies heart) side to side she is bred and if it swings to you and toward the mares rear (back and forth) she is open.

This test has been a very accurate for me in determining if they are in foal or not.

: Not scientific, but I believe it does work and I have heard other breeders use this method with great success as well.

Jeri

[SIZE=14pt]Nikki...did you read that ? Try it

: *when no one is watching :lol: [/SIZE]