Answering Your Questions | EP 1

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Take two because Nate didn't turn on the camera.
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But this is essentially a Q&A series that we're starting.
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I'm Katie Van Slyke, if you don't know,
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and we have a bunch of animals here,
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and a lot of you have questions about them.
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So I didn't want to just do like a--
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- Hi, I'm Katie Van Slyke,
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and here's 10 answers to 10 questions.
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- I want to do like a conversation, okay?
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So that's what we're gonna do.
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We've pulled from Facebook, from Instagram,
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from YouTube comments, from y'all,
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and we're just gonna have a conversation.
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So Abigail's gonna start asking questions
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that I have no clue what she's gonna ask me,
What Did You Want To Be?
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which I think is gonna be the fun part.
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- Okay, I think this is a good place to start.
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So when you were younger,
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what did you want to be when you grow up?
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And it kind of goes with this other person who asked,
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do you ever think about going to college
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before your career took off?
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- So for an embarrassingly amount of time,
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I wanted to be a trick rider.
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Like you know when you go to,
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Abigail has her phone on right now.
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- That's really, okay.
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(laughing)
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I wanted to be a trick rider, you know when you go to rodeos and
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The girls that like ride around in circles and they'll like hang off the side
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or they'll like be standing up on them or they'll jump through a ring of fire
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I wanted to be that for a really really long time, but then I realized
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I had zero coordination and zero upper body strength
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And I hated falling off, so
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So yeah that's what I wanted to be when I grew up.
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But, college yeah I went to college
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and then um that's a whole other story
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But yeah, I did.
Does Abigail Live At Your House?
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(laughing) - Okay, does Abigail live at your house?
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(laughing)
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- I mean, there's been times where you've lived at my house.
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Like when we got snowed in and we were like,
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no, you're not allowed to drive, it's too dangerous.
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Cause I tend to mother her.
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But no, she does not live at my house.
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She lives like 30 minutes away,
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but during the week she's there every single day.
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But no, she does not.
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It seems like it though.
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- Okay, these are some questions from your YouTube video.
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I think this is the most recent one.
Naming The Goats
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It's "Preg checking the goats" and "Indy".
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- Yeah.
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- So someone said, "You should name your baby goats
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"after trees this time."
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I think it would be cute to do like Willow
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or Sequoia or Douglas.
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What do you think of that?
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- Douglas.
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- Like a Douglas fir.
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- I didn't know that existed.
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Like trees.
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Well, we have Willow the horse.
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- We do.
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But Douglas, like an aspen Like aspen
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Maple.
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Maple.
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They said sequoia.
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Sequoia is kind of cool.
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- Redwood.
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(laughing)
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- Come here, little redwood.
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(laughing)
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- So you would be open to naming them after trees?
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- I think a theme would be fun.
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So I'm not opposed to themes,
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and that are like not common themes.
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- We've also talked about like food themes.
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So that's the thing, so like where I got my goats from
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Kendall, she has all of her animals named after food, and so does my sister in law
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So it's like I feel like that's it's done It's been done
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It's still good, not hating on it But like, I kinda want something a lil different
Indy Needs A Break!
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Okay, this is from the same video. This person said, "I would give Indy a pass.
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She just had a baby. Obviously her body isn't ready. Let her catch her breath."
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Well that sucks because she's pregnant.
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But when we're breeding the horses, a lot
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of the times we will breed them, you know,
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again after they've just had one. So
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usually they come into heat for their foal heat.
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Like Indy came in really fast this year, like
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five days, but generally it's like nine to 15 days
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after having their baby. And that's basically in
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the wild when they would get re-bred. Now horses
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have such a long gestational period that they
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don't know that they're pregnant for so long
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that you can re-breed them pretty quickly after
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they've birthed. And it doesn't really affect them
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for a really long time. Like honestly, even after
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the baby's weaned, they don't really get, you know,
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heavy in their stomachs. They don't really get
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lethargic. Like I showed one of my mares pregnant
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until she was like seven or eight months
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pregnant. So it's actually really healthy if you're going
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to have a brood mare that is going to have
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babies multiple years to keep her in like baby shape,
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honestly. Like it's harder on their bodies to
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allow them years like in between, especially
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for older mares. If you're wanting to have your
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older mares have longevity breeding wise, sometimes
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keeping them pregnant for a few years is better
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for them. I don't know if that makes sense, but
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that's the case because they're horses and not
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humans. So while it might not make sense that
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humans have babies like in a row, they aren't
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humans. And that's actually one of their instincts
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that they want to happen. They want to get bred. I
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mean, when they come into heat, they are actively
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trying to get bred. And going to the other part
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of the question, which is why not just let her
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come into heat naturally, we do that sometimes.
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But when we're trying to breed to stallions that
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are not in the same state as us, and it's hard to
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like schedule things, like you want to be able to
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order the semen, have it get there in the right
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amount of time, breed her before she ovulates,
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but also breed her like not too far before she
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ovulates. You know what I'm saying? And then also,
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we were at the end of breeding season where
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it was pretty time sensitive to get her bred.
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And so we short cycled her. That's what it's
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called when you give them ludalize and bring them into
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heat a little bit sooner than their natural
What Does Christi Do?
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cycle. So that's why. These are some comments and
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questions from the day in the life of
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Waylon video that we did. Someone said, this is so
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interesting. Thank you so much for sharing as a
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non-horsie person, I'd be really interested in
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hearing about what the people do at High Point,
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like Christi, for example, might be worth doing
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to attract your younger followers into the ag
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related fields. So like, are they asking what her
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job is? Kind of like what the workers there do,
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like what does she do on a daily basis to help
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you and like anyone else that has stallions
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there? So I don't know everything Christi does, but
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she does a lot. Like could not even dream of
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owning Wayland without Christi. Christi is the
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backbone. Like she's essentially she's the
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stallion manager at High Point. So they have, I think,
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I don't want to be wrong. I think it's around 40
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stallions that they manage. Some of them are just
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frozen semen. And then some of them are being
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collected actively throughout the entire season.
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And they are on site at High Point. So she
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handles all of their collections, meaning people
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send in their contracts to her. She handles the
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scheduling and the shipping of those. She handles
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all of like the overseas stuff. So she will
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talk to people from Australia and Europe, as far as
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getting their semen over there. She actually just
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contacted me the other day. She's like, hey, I'm
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trying to get a really good bulk rate for
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sending Australia semen or semen to Australia. So she
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handles all that, but she probably does 10 times
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what I just said. But essentially she's the stallion
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manager at High Point. And she's phenomenal.
I Showed My Hog In Flip Flops
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Literally don't know how she has so much in her brain.
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I just thought this was funny. This person, I
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guess you were wearing your flip flops in the video.
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And this person said when they were in 4-H,
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they did showmanship with their hog and they always
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wore flip flops. So I get in so much trouble on
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the internet for wearing flip flops and crocs,
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but honestly, every like person that's been
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raised around horses that I know, they're just so
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unserious about it. And it's like, we know that
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we could get our toes chopped off and we probably
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should be advocating for wearing good footwear,
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but like none of us can be bothered. I remember
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when I was like a teenager and I'd go to
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my trainer's house, we called it Camp Karen,
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because we'd go there for like weeks at a time
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and just ride like a million times a day. And we do
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showmanship practice at the end of the day after
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we went to the pool. And I'd wear like my bathing
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suit and flip flops to do showmanship, which is
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on the ground. So my horse is trotting next to me.
Do Mares Remember Their Foals?
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So I was just dumb probably.
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On that same video, a lot of people are asking like,
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after they're weaned, are they ever reunited?
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Do they recognize each other?
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Does the baby ever see the mom again?
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Do they learn to be separate?
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- So, you know, I guess there's no way for us to know
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a hundred percent if like, you know,
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we separate Maggie and Molly for five years
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and then bring them back together if Maggie's gonna go,
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that's my baby.
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I don't know that we know that for, you know, for sure.
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But I do know that horses that are together
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for really long periods of time,
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they do get buddy sour, they do know each other,
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and then when they're reunited,
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like they have really good memories.
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But I don't know when they've only been together
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about six months of life,
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and then they're like five years later
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and it's a full grown horse.
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I don't know how that works,
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but in my experience,
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usually we keep our foals away from their moms,
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we're like out of sight, like don't even,
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like we were really careful when we put Molly out with Beau
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that Maggie in the pasture at night
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was like completely on the other side of the farm,
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like couldn't see each other.
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I think it'd be safe after a couple of years
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for them to go back together,
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but I mean, I've seen babies get back with their mom
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and start nursing on them
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if they had like a six month break.
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So I guess they do remember each other to a certain extent,
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but we just don't even fool with it.
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There's no like, oh, it's time to reunite them.
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Like unless there's a reason they need to go together,
Abigail Farted
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we just never do it.
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- What is your funniest memory with each person in the crew,
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Matt, Nate and Abigail?
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- My funniest memory with Matt, Nate and Abigail?
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I don't know.
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I mean, it was so funny,
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the music video that y'all made me,
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I mean, that was kind of like all together.
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Like that was just hilarious.
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I'm trying to, I might need a minute to think about this.
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I think one of the funniest things,
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and I don't know why this sticks out to me,
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is that like, I kind of put you in a position
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where we went to Congress for the first time together
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when you had just started working.
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We didn't know each other at all.
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And I was like, hey, I know this is like not professional,
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but like the only room I can find has a king bed.
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Like, do you mind if we sleep in the same bed?
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And then that's like so unprofessional
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and you're like, that's fine.
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But then like,
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- What are you gonna say?
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- You farted so much.
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In your sleep.
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We didn't know each other.
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And we're just sleeping in this hotel room.
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And like, I didn't know if I could tell you
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that next day and be like, you farted so much.
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And now I can, but it was just really funny that like,
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that was like on of our first things.
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- You can leave that in.
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I'm not embarrassed.
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- I don't know with Matt and Nate
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because I feel like so many things have been like us
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as a crew.
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Do you have something?
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Are you harboring a story?
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- Immediately just thinking of when we were in Texas.
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- That whole trip was so funny.
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So when we went to Texas,
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okay, Nate, like one of the funniest times of Nate,
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like we were playing Mexican train and stuff
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and he was just like doing these voices
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and like being so funny.
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What did you think I was about to say?
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You just covered your face.
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- Oh, we can't say that one though.
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We can't say that one.
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I threw up, I laughed so hard.
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But we can't say it.
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- That's what I was thinking of.
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- That's the thing.
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There's some things that are just not for YouTube.
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- You can talk about how--
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- There were some hand gestures during--
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- He pulled this shirt up over his head.
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- I can't say that one either because of the--
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- Yeah, the--
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(beep)
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- Bleep that out.
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(laughing)
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I would say with Matt and Nate,
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because they're grown men with pregnant wives,
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but they act like middle school children.
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Just about every time we hang out, it's pretty dang funny.
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I really can't pick one,
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but Abigail farting is for sure hers.
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We can end on Abigail farting.
Outro
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- Just let that stick in everyone's head.
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- Okay, so that was the first Q and A.
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I'm not gonna lie, we're about to go film another one.
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I'm about to change my shirt.
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You'll be seeing another one of these at least.
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And then after those first two,
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you can tell us if you like the layout
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or if you wanna see something different
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or what questions you wanna see next.
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I hope you enjoyed this and I'll see you in the next one.