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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,

1:00

Abigail has her phone on right now.

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- That's really, okay.

1:03

(laughing)

1:07

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

1:18

I wanted to be that for a really really long time, but then I realized

1:21

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.

1:31

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?

1:45

(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.

2:08

It seems like it though.

2:10

- Okay, these are some questions from your YouTube video.

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I think this is the most recent one.

Naming The Goats

2:15

It's "Preg checking the goats" and "Indy".

2:18

- Yeah.

2:19

- So someone said, "You should name your baby goats

2:21

"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?

2:28

- Douglas.

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- Like a Douglas fir.

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- I didn't know that existed.

2:34

Like trees.

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Well, we have Willow the horse.

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- We do.

2:37

But Douglas, like an aspen Like aspen

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Maple.

2:43

Maple.

2:44

They said sequoia.

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Sequoia is kind of cool.

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- Redwood.

2:49

(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!

3:25

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."

3:36

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

3:56

after having their baby. And that's basically in

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the wild when they would get re-bred. Now horses

4:02

have such a long gestational period that they

4:04

don't know that they're pregnant for so long

4:06

that you can re-breed them pretty quickly after

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they've birthed. And it doesn't really affect them

4:11

for a really long time. Like honestly, even after

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the baby's weaned, they don't really get, you know,

4:16

heavy in their stomachs. They don't really get

4:18

lethargic. Like I showed one of my mares pregnant

4:21

until she was like seven or eight months

4:22

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

4:29

babies multiple years to keep her in like baby shape,

4:33

honestly. Like it's harder on their bodies to

4:36

allow them years like in between, especially

4:39

for older mares. If you're wanting to have your

4:41

older mares have longevity breeding wise, sometimes

4:44

keeping them pregnant for a few years is better

4:47

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

4:55

humans have babies like in a row, they aren't

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humans. And that's actually one of their instincts

5:00

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

5:08

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

5:21

like schedule things, like you want to be able to

5:25

order the semen, have it get there in the right

5:28

amount of time, breed her before she ovulates,

5:30

but also breed her like not too far before she

5:33

ovulates. You know what I'm saying? And then also,

5:36

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

5:47

heat a little bit sooner than their natural

What Does Christi Do?

5:49

cycle. So that's why. These are some comments and

5:52

questions from the day in the life of

5:54

Waylon video that we did. Someone said, this is so

5:59

interesting. Thank you so much for sharing as a

6:02

non-horsie person, I'd be really interested in

6:04

hearing about what the people do at High Point,

6:08

like Christi, for example, might be worth doing

6:11

to attract your younger followers into the ag

6:13

related fields. So like, are they asking what her

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job is? Kind of like what the workers there do,

6:20

like what does she do on a daily basis to help

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you and like anyone else that has stallions

6:24

there? So I don't know everything Christi does, but

6:29

she does a lot. Like could not even dream of

6:33

owning Wayland without Christi. Christi is the

6:35

backbone. Like she's essentially she's the

6:38

stallion manager at High Point. So they have, I think,

6:43

I don't want to be wrong. I think it's around 40

6:45

stallions that they manage. Some of them are just

6:48

frozen semen. And then some of them are being

6:51

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

6:59

send in their contracts to her. She handles the

7:02

scheduling and the shipping of those. She handles

7:05

all of like the overseas stuff. So she will

7:11

talk to people from Australia and Europe, as far as

7:13

getting their semen over there. She actually just

7:16

contacted me the other day. She's like, hey, I'm

7:17

trying to get a really good bulk rate for

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sending Australia semen or semen to Australia. So she

7:23

handles all that, but she probably does 10 times

7:27

what I just said. But essentially she's the stallion

7:30

manager at High Point. And she's phenomenal.

I Showed My Hog In Flip Flops

7:33

Literally don't know how she has so much in her brain.

7:37

I just thought this was funny. This person, I

7:40

guess you were wearing your flip flops in the video.

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And this person said when they were in 4-H,

7:45

they did showmanship with their hog and they always

7:47

wore flip flops. So I get in so much trouble on

7:51

the internet for wearing flip flops and crocs,

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but honestly, every like person that's been

7:56

raised around horses that I know, they're just so

7:58

unserious about it. And it's like, we know that

8:00

we could get our toes chopped off and we probably

8:03

should be advocating for wearing good footwear,

8:06

but like none of us can be bothered. I remember

8:09

when I was like a teenager and I'd go to

8:12

my trainer's house, we called it Camp Karen,

8:15

because we'd go there for like weeks at a time

8:16

and just ride like a million times a day. And we do

8:19

showmanship practice at the end of the day after

8:20

we went to the pool. And I'd wear like my bathing

8:23

suit and flip flops to do showmanship, which is

8:27

on the ground. So my horse is trotting next to me.

Do Mares Remember Their Foals?

8:29

So I was just dumb probably.

8:32

On that same video, a lot of people are asking like,

8:36

after they're weaned, are they ever reunited?

8:38

Do they recognize each other?

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Does the baby ever see the mom again?

8:43

Do they learn to be separate?

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- So, you know, I guess there's no way for us to know

8:49

a hundred percent if like, you know,

8:52

we separate Maggie and Molly for five years

8:54

and then bring them back together if Maggie's gonna go,

8:56

that's my baby.

8:57

I don't know that we know that for, you know, for sure.

9:02

But I do know that horses that are together

9:05

for really long periods of time,

9:06

they do get buddy sour, they do know each other,

9:08

and then when they're reunited,

9:09

like they have really good memories.

9:11

But I don't know when they've only been together

9:12

about six months of life,

9:13

and then they're like five years later

9:15

and it's a full grown horse.

9:16

I don't know how that works,

9:17

but in my experience,

9:20

usually we keep our foals away from their moms,

9:24

we're like out of sight, like don't even,

9:27

like we were really careful when we put Molly out with Beau

9:30

that Maggie in the pasture at night

9:32

was like completely on the other side of the farm,

9:34

like couldn't see each other.

9:36

I think it'd be safe after a couple of years

9:38

for them to go back together,

9:40

but I mean, I've seen babies get back with their mom

9:43

and start nursing on them

9:44

if they had like a six month break.

9:46

So I guess they do remember each other to a certain extent,

9:49

but we just don't even fool with it.

9:53

There's no like, oh, it's time to reunite them.

9:55

Like unless there's a reason they need to go together,

Abigail Farted

9:57

we just never do it.

9:59

- What is your funniest memory with each person in the crew,

10:04

Matt, Nate and Abigail?

10:06

- My funniest memory with Matt, Nate and Abigail?

10:10

I don't know.

10:11

I mean, it was so funny,

10:13

the music video that y'all made me,

10:16

I mean, that was kind of like all together.

10:17

Like that was just hilarious.

10:19

I'm trying to, I might need a minute to think about this.

10:22

I think one of the funniest things,

10:24

and I don't know why this sticks out to me,

10:25

is that like, I kind of put you in a position

10:28

where we went to Congress for the first time together

10:31

when you had just started working.

10:32

We didn't know each other at all.

10:34

And I was like, hey, I know this is like not professional,

10:36

but like the only room I can find has a king bed.

10:39

Like, do you mind if we sleep in the same bed?

10:40

And then that's like so unprofessional

10:42

and you're like, that's fine.

10:43

But then like,

10:46

- What are you gonna say?

10:52

- You farted so much.

10:54

In your sleep.

10:58

We didn't know each other.

11:00

And we're just sleeping in this hotel room.

11:03

And like, I didn't know if I could tell you

11:06

that next day and be like, you farted so much.

11:09

And now I can, but it was just really funny that like,

11:13

that was like on of our first things.

11:17

- You can leave that in.

11:20

I'm not embarrassed.

11:25

- I don't know with Matt and Nate

11:27

because I feel like so many things have been like us

11:29

as a crew.

11:30

Do you have something?

11:33

Are you harboring a story?

11:34

- Immediately just thinking of when we were in Texas.

11:37

- That whole trip was so funny.

11:39

So when we went to Texas,

11:43

okay, Nate, like one of the funniest times of Nate,

11:45

like we were playing Mexican train and stuff

11:47

and he was just like doing these voices

11:49

and like being so funny.

11:51

What did you think I was about to say?

11:52

You just covered your face.

11:54

- Oh, we can't say that one though.

11:56

We can't say that one.

11:58

I threw up, I laughed so hard.

12:00

But we can't say it.

12:01

- That's what I was thinking of.

12:04

- That's the thing.

12:05

There's some things that are just not for YouTube.

12:08

- You can talk about how--

12:10

- There were some hand gestures during--

12:11

- He pulled this shirt up over his head.

12:13

- I can't say that one either because of the--

12:15

- Yeah, the--

12:15

(beep)

12:18

- Bleep that out.

12:20

(laughing)

12:23

I would say with Matt and Nate,

12:25

because they're grown men with pregnant wives,

12:28

but they act like middle school children.

12:31

Just about every time we hang out, it's pretty dang funny.

12:35

I really can't pick one,

12:36

but Abigail farting is for sure hers.

12:40

We can end on Abigail farting.

Outro

12:42

- Just let that stick in everyone's head.

12:46

- Okay, so that was the first Q and A.

12:49

I'm not gonna lie, we're about to go film another one.

12:51

I'm about to change my shirt.

12:53

You'll be seeing another one of these at least.

12:54

And then after those first two,

12:56

you can tell us if you like the layout

12:58

or if you wanna see something different

12:59

or what questions you wanna see next.

13:02

I hope you enjoyed this and I'll see you in the next one.