So Many Things Have Happened Lately... This Is Hard

Summary

Katching Up With Katie – Episode Summary

Podcast: Katching Up With Katie
Host: Katie Van Slyke
Episode: So Many Things Have Happened Lately... This Is Hard
Date: April 1, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this emotional episode, Katie Van Slyke dives deep into the unexpected challenges and triumphs of late foaling season at Running Springs. Katie candidly recounts recent health struggles, the harrowing experience of her pregnant mare, Maggie, enduring two colic surgeries, and the miraculous birth that followed. The conversation is rich with personal reflections, veterinary details, and plenty of humor and heart as Katie, joined by Kimmy and Stephanie, keeps things real about farm life. The episode concludes with a spirited animal identification game, offering a glimpse into the camaraderie and routines that hold the team together.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Katie’s Health and Work Routine

• [00:00-01:14] Katie opens with a self-deprecating acknowledgment of her scratchy voice and ongoing battles with illness, directly tied to her grueling, sleep-deprived schedule and minimal self-care.
  • Quote: "I don't sleep... I don't quit working until 11 o'clock at night and I don't take any medicine ever. And I probably don't eat very good immunity foods. So, you know, it just is what it is." (Katie, 00:00)

2. The Ordeal with Maggie’s Colic Surgeries and Foaling

• [01:42–24:40] The bulk of the episode is a gripping, step-by-step recount of Maggie the mare's near-death experience:
  • Katie describes seeing Maggie lay down abnormally, immediately recognizing signs of another colic episode, and acting quickly with her team.
  • Background: Maggie had recent colic surgery (approx. four weeks prior) while heavily pregnant, a rare and risky scenario for horses.
  • Detailed veterinary and logistical challenges: emergency medication, rapid transport to the clinic, and quick decision-making.
    • Quote: "From the time that I saw her lay down to the time she walked into the vet, it was 35 minutes." (Katie, 04:45)
  • Katie walks through the agonizing choices presented by the vets: repeat surgery, possible C-section, and financial realities.
    • Quote: “Colic surgeries are freaking expensive. Like, the first one was like, 10 grand.” (Katie, 08:03)
  • She highlights the complexity and risks of equine C-sections compared to humans or smaller mammals, dispelling common misconceptions.
    • Notable moment: Detailed comparison to human medicine, describing how newborn foals often need physical resuscitation and lack of an equine NICU (11:14–13:24).
  • Emotional toll: Katie shares how hard it is to pre-authorize life-or-death decisions and opens up about the “miracle” outcome after surgery and rapid delivery.
    • Quote: “It’s like, can you imagine having like a C-section and then 24 hours later they say, oh, push a baby out?” (Katie, 17:43)
  • Maggie, despite two major abdominal surgeries in four weeks and the immense stress, delivered a healthy filly unaided.
    • Quote: “They’re like, we tried to help, she didn’t want us.” (Katie, 16:59)
    • “You’re seeing this mom like tearing herself apart to bring her baby into the world.” (Katie, 18:44)
  • The team touches on technical questions from the audience, such as why colons aren’t surgically “tacked down” and spaying horses to prevent future pregnancies.

3. Reflections on Naming the Miracle Filly

• [21:18–24:40]
  • Audience suggestions to name Maggie’s filly “Miracle” are gently declined by Katie, who prefers something to honor Maggie directly like "Margot."
    • Quote: "If I named every baby Miracle that people suggest... we'd have every baby named Miracle, like, there'd be two Miracle babies a year. It just. I don't know. It feels cheesy to me." (Katie, 21:42)

4. Return to Routine & Team Bonding

• [24:40–27:40]
  • Discussion on how long Maggie and her filly will stay at the vet, balancing the baby's need for movement with post-surgical care.
  • Light-hearted banter about handling tense moments, boundaries around private phone calls, and adapting to “full watch” (monitoring mares close to foaling).
  • The group touches on their D&D game nights and the need for occasional breaks from social media and structured content.

5. Barn Life Anecdotes & Team Camaraderie

• [27:40–29:43]
  • Stephanie’s “milk tasting” approach for predicting mares’ readiness to foal is recounted, sparking laughter and curiosity.
    • Quote: "She just squirts it into her hand and then tastes it. She says it goes from salty... then bland... and then sweet is like, baby." (Katie, 28:09)
  • The group exchanges funny remarks and personal trivia, accentuating the familial atmosphere.

6. Game Segment: Animal Identification Challenge

• [30:03–36:19]
  • The episode closes with Kimmy and Stephanie testing their skills at identifying various animals from Katie’s camera roll, highlighting the ever-growing and diverse farm “family.”
  • The group jokes about misidentifying animals, day-to-day farm mishaps, and the quirks of individual horses and cows.
  • Notable playful moment:
    • Quote: “Show me, like, Blanche, and I’ll be like Dorothy.” (Kimmy, 32:03)

7. Closing Remarks

• [36:19–37:05]
  • Katie apologizes for the low energy and her “smoker’s voice,” reiterating relief and gratitude for Maggie’s survival.
    • Quote: “I hope, you know, for those wanting a little bit more insight on Maggie’s situation—you got it. We’re really, really happy that she and baby are here with us.” (Katie, 36:33)
  • The group shares hopes for more healthy births and a peaceful weekend.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On horse anatomy and health:
  “Horses have the stupidest digestive tract and organ placement out of all animals, okay? And so they just, like, freaking could die from anything.”
  – Katie (03:11)

• On the emotional labor of farm life:
  “I feel like I make hard decisions a lot. Like, I feel like I make them all the time... you just get used to having to make kind of sucky decisions.”
  – Katie (07:35)

• Perspective on veterinary medicine:
  “It’s not the freaking same as a person. Like, let me just get that out of the way... they don’t have a damn NICU sitting right there with all incubators and crap.”
  – Katie (11:13)

• Perspective on miracles and farm reality:
  "Lots of positive, like lots of saying yes to prayers, was happened this week."
  – Katie (19:14)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 00:00–01:14 — Katie’s health and working herself into the ground
• 01:42–24:40 — Maggie’s colic, surgeries, and miraculous birth (core of the episode)
• 21:18–24:40 — Debate over naming the filly “Miracle” and audience input
• 24:40–27:40 — Postpartum care, full watch, and daily routines
• 27:40–29:43 — Funny team anecdotes & Stephanie’s milk-tasting expertise
• 30:03–36:19 — Animal identification challenge
• 36:19–37:05 — Closing prayers and reflections

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Tone & Takeaways

This episode is raw, unfiltered, and heartfelt, combining the stressful realities of animal husbandry with moments of humor, gratitude, and resilient optimism. The conversational, candid tone makes listeners feel like part of the barn family. Katie doesn’t shy away from detail or emotion—listeners get an authentic look at both the heartbreak and joy that come with running a breeding farm, and how teamwork, quick thinking, and faith help them weather the hardest days.

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Ideal for: Anyone interested in farm life, equine veterinary drama, resilient women in agriculture, or simply those who love a good real-life miracle story complete with lighthearted barn banter.

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Transcript

[Katie]

Welcome back to catching with Katie. I sound terrible. Kimmy lock in. I sound terrible. I understand. Everyone's like, you're sick all the time. Yeah, I don't sleep. No. And I don't quit working until 11 o' clock at night and I don't take any medicine ever. And I probably don't eat very good immunity foods. So, you know, it just is what it is. But we're almost, we're over halfway through foaling season at this point. Over halfway. And it, we're, we're currently on full watch as we are filming this. We're on full watch for happy. She faked me out as all the mayors this year have because I thought we would have a two day old baby by now.

[Kimmy]

Yeah.

[Katie]

But you know, I'm being humbled, being humbled a lot this season and that's okay. That's what you need in life. And then I think I had like the Monday of all Mondays this past week. So woke up that morning being like, don't feel good. Felt very flu like symptoms sans like no fever, but symptoms of the such. And we, I, when have I taken a nap from 11 o' clock to two on a work day?

[Kimmy]

I've never seen this woman nap in her life.

[Katie]

And I was just like curled up in the big chair, snoozing, didn't eat lunch, didn't do nothing. And so I woke up to go to the barn to finally like, like we, no, we had, you had gone

[Kimmy]

out, we had done stuff in the morning. We done stuff in the morning, we'd come back to.

[Katie]

And I was like, I just took a nap and I was like we gotta go wrap up for the day. And I was like, I, I have an easy day. I can go just get these videos done, come back and like go back to bed.

[Kimmy]

Yeah.

[Katie]

Because at that point we were not on full watch and I'd rather very much planned on just like dying. And we go to the barn and immediately as I walk in the barn, Maggie lays down and I was like, that is just not normal or ideal. And so for those that don't know, Maggie's one of our mayors who is due around now and she had colic surgery at around 295 days pregnant. So like three and a half weeks ago, four weeks ago. And when she had that first colic surgery, it was from her colon being displaced. So like horses, their colon is like dangling inside. Dangling inside. It's, I'm not ever going to question the creator, but the horses have the stupidest digestive Tract and an organ placement out of, like, all animals, okay? And so they just, like, freaking could die from anything. So her colon was on the opposite side of her body as it should have been, and it was wedged up underneath her baby with that first one, and the gas buildup from it was creating so much pain, and it was also causing her colon to, like, have a lot of swelling. And. And anyway, they had to fix it surgically, which she miraculously, like. That already wasn't a, like, shoe in that. She'd be fine already. That was like, oh, baby might not do good. Mama might do. Like, that was already a miracle that she, like, made it through that so comfortably. And then she came home and seemed to be doing fine. Like, she was in the big bowling stall. We were watching her really closely. She had her last baby with us in the mid-30020s, and so I kind of assumed she would do the same this time. And so we were like, please just let yourself heal. And we had already decided, you know, since she's probably gonna fall early, we're gonna take her into the clinic to fall. We're gonna take her into the clinic. We're gonna wait till her milk starts, you know, kind of looking suspicious, and then we'll take her in because it's only 30 minutes away. And so we were like, we're gonna leave her comfortable while we can. Well, that Monday, this past Monday, I see her lay down. I'm like, that doesn't look right. And so I go up to her. I'm, like, listening to her on her, like, her side. She's like, you know, just grunting. I hear nothing. Like, generally, if you put your ear to, like, a horse's belly, there's all kinds of girls gurgles and motion and all kinds of things.

[Stephanie]

Wait, you can do that?

[Katie]

Why couldn't you do that?

[Stephanie]

I've just never thought to do it.

[Kimmy]

I mean, safely.

[Stephanie]

And now. Now I want to know what it sounds like.

[Katie]

Well, we can listen.

[Kimmy]

I, too, would like to.

[Katie]

Does it sound like.

[Stephanie]

Like, a person where it's like, yeah,

[Katie]

you can hear outside of their body. Laptop. Like, if, like, all the time when I'm checking milk, I hear gurgles and all things.

[Stephanie]

I'm gonna get a stethoscope.

[Katie]

Yeah, we have one.

[Kimmy]

We can go check Coco.

[Stephanie]

I'm gonna use a stethoscope.

[Kimmy]

Let's check Coco.

[Katie]

We have one. And so I listened for gut sounds, heard nothing. And I was like, that's awesome. And so immediately, because at this point, she's weeks out from surgery, she looks very similar to the last time. I was like, banamine now. We gave her some immediate response, which is kind of something like if she was impacted or not pooping, like, it would kind of help with that. And I called Jonathan. I was like, hey, I need, like, can you bring the trailer around? Like, just trying to get every moving part happening as fast as possible. And we had her to the vet. From the time that I saw her lay down to the time she walked into the vet, it was 35 minutes. And we had given her banamine right before she got on the trailer. So that was kicking in. When we got there, she was still, like, pawing and just so upset and so in pain. And, like, I was really worried that she had gone down on the trailer a couple times. And so we get her to the vet immediately. They're like, yeah, her colons, wrong spot again. And so, I don't know. I mean, there's no way to know officially. I don't know if it was just like, baby was moving it around because baby was super active, like, getting ready to come out. But, yeah, it was wedged up underneath baby again. And so this time, though, she didn't have a lot of gas in her stomach, which was good because we caught it early. We caught it super early, and the gas was what was making her even more uncomfortable the first time. And so the hope was that we could use drugs, Lidocaine, like, lidocaine's drug drugs. And time to, like, let her be comfortable and hopefully it would just kind of like, move around. Now, her being that heavily and full made it that much less likely that it would move because, again, it's like, edged. Yeah. Under this baby. So I. It was probably like. It was probably like, what, 3, 33 when we had her at the vet. And I would say by 5:30 or 6, they had started. They called me and said, hey, we're not at surgery yet, but, like, we gotta have some. Some serious conversations. And it was too. It was a bet that I've known for a really long time. And then I absolutely love their newest surgeon, and he had done her first surgery. They're very good about communication, and so they're like, we just gotta have some really hard conversations. And, like, I mean, I feel like I make hard. I feel like I make hard decisions a lot. Like, I feel like I make them all the time. And I feel like it. It's not necessarily easy, but, I mean, you just get used to having to make kind of, like, sucky decisions. And so they Were like, hey, we need to know. Like, you know, right now we're obviously trying our best to get her to not have surgery, but if we have to do a recut, obviously, odds are, like, worse for her, worse for baby, worse for everything. And so we just need to know, like, some people absolutely would, because here's another. Another zinger to throw in there. Colic surgeries are freaking expensive. Like, the first one was, like, 10 grand. And so it's like, not everyone could do the first surgery, let alone a month later, a second one. And so they had to present me with that of being like, hey, like, we have to know what you want to do. We. We're not going to. Because. Absolutely. Some people would do a terminal C section in this situation, which some people

[Kimmy]

would choose to, like, over the baby.

[Katie]

Well. Well, that. But it's like, at that point, if your mayor is, like, constantly colicking and you don't have the funds to just keep doing surgeries, like, it's a real decision that I would not shame someone for. Absolutely. And so they're like, you know, some would just do a terminal C section, which is where they do a C section in a way that, like, mom would not recover from, and they would put her down, and that does allow you to get baby up faster. So that is something to take into account. And so they're like, that's an option. And I was like, is there another. Yeah, what's the.

[Kimmy]

What's the next one?

[Katie]

Is there another option here? They're like, yeah. I mean, yes. And they're like, we could attempt to do the surgery like we did the first time and see if we can't get her to, like, hold baby in and. Oh, I'm like, can she fall? Like, can she even foal after having two abdominal surgeries? Because, I mean, like, they got some.

[Stephanie]

It's a lot of abdominals.

[Katie]

Yeah. I don't. Like. Like, she was cut from, like, right in front of her utter. To the middle of her belly.

[Stephanie]

Yeah.

[Katie]

You know, and, like, it's. It's hard on their body. Like, I mean, there's. When they. When they go into surgery, I mean, are. Are you squeamish?

[Kimmy]

It really depends. It's kind of different Things kind of make me squeam.

[Katie]

You should look up a colic surgery on YouTube.

[Kimmy]

Okay.

[Katie]

Which. I mean, colic surgeries vary on, like, what kind they are, but generally speaking, they string them up, four legs. Like, they. They sedate them, lay them down, string them up by all four legs, hoist them up Take them over to the table. They have like, like, oxygen tube down their throat. They have an anesthesiologist, they have the surgeon, they have surgical surgery, texts, like, all that good stuff. And so she had already been through that a month prior.

[Kimmy]

Yeah.

[Katie]

Pregnant. And then she has all this weight in her belly, you know, and so they were like, we could do that again. And I was like, okay, but, like, is that. Are you telling me you could do it? But that's. That you suggest against it? Like, is. Is there any chance of success with it? And I'm like, I mean, we can. We can attempt to do the surgery again and hope that she holds baby in for, like, days or even a couple weeks to give herself time to heal. We would obviously let her fall here, not at home, so that we could help her. And if we get in there, we just need to know, like. Like, at this point, because there's two lives, because there's already the. The first surgery. But, you know, we had to have plan A, plan B, plan C. Like, we had to know, okay, if this happens, what do we do? Because they don't need to be calling me. Be like, hey, what do you think we should do in their middle, sir? Like, they need to know what my.

[Kimmy]

They don't need to have to stop and call you.

[Katie]

Exactly. And so they were like, what's plan B? And I was like, I mean, and they were very, very good at guiding me through this, being like, we could do plan A, which is, again, the same surgery. Try to leave baby in. If we get in there and baby is in distress and all the things we could take baby and, like, try to close her up and try to, like, fix her and. And see if she recovers. I mean, that's two very difficult surgeries. And here's the thing to think about, because everyone, like, I saw a lot of comments being like, why wouldn't you just take this? Take the baby out? You already put her through so much and you're going to make her fall now. Like, why wouldn't you just do a C section? It is not the freaking same as a person. Like, let me just get that out of the way. It is not the freaking same. They don't have a damn NICU sitting right there with all incubators and crap. Like. Like, I don't know, like, with horses, everything is just so much more violent looking. Like, if you look up a C section of a horse, like, when they're doing chest compressions on a foal, it looks like you're beating it like, it is so difficult and hard on this baby's body and hard on the mom and hard on. So like, especially if she's. Because she wasn't in labor prior to the surgery. And so with her body not being in labor, she hadn't like primed this baby to come out, so her body hadn't released these hormones and like told the baby, hey, it's time to get. Time to be born. Right. Time to wake up, time to, you know. And so due to that, that already puts a lot more risk. The baby is just not going to like, thrive, not going to wake up. And then there's the case that she was only 322 days. So like, sure, some of our babies have been born at that stage and they've been fine, but there's other babies that if they're not ready to come out at 322, their lungs might not be developed. And again, we don't have all this like nicu. Like, sure, there is like, there, there is equipment, there is things you can

[Kimmy]

do, but we just don't have access to right now.

[Katie]

Well, what I'm. What I'm meaning is it's just not to the extent of humans.

[Kimmy]

Yeah.

[Katie]

And so like lot. Lots of people are questioning it. I'm like, you don't understand how different from hu. Humans or dogs or other animals. This is like, this is such a large animal. And so that plan C, plan B was like, okay, maybe take baby if we have to. And then plan C was if her colon needed to like a resection and was like super damaged and whatever, she would have such a low chance of survival anyway from that. It would be in baby's best interest to get it out as fast as possible and do a terminal C section at that point. And so that was a plan as well. And very much hoped that wasn't the plan. But because like, like I went through all those stuff with the vets and was like, okay, like, I'm with you. We made the decision, hung up and like, again it's like I, I don't feel like I lose it that often. And I've lost it multiple times this full length season. And I just like lost it because I love Maggie. And like, that was such a weird and hard like pre decision to make, you know.

[Kimmy]

And it also like gets your mind reeling of like, what could happen.

[Katie]

Yeah. And then, I mean, you can't do anything. Like I'm just at home. Like, all I can do is pray. All I can do is, is think about it. You Know and, and I mean, you know there's such a wide variety of people that follow this channel and that follow me and you know, not saying that you have to believe what I believe, but I, I wholeheartedly believe the power of prayers what guided these vets and got these, this mom and baby through it. Because they called me back like 10 minutes later and we're like yeah, we gotta go, we gotta do surgery. I'm like okay. And I didn't get a call. I mean that was probably like 7. I didn't get a call till 1:30 in the morning. Like I, I didn't get a call for till 1:30 in the morning being like okay, we're through because it was so difficult and like her anesthesia was so difficult and, and so I got a call at 1:30 and they were like she made it through great. Baby did great. She everything looks fine. I'm like huh, okay, great. And, and so that was like the first hurdle. And I'm like, I like that was so unlikely. And what was even more unlikely because I went and saw her this the next morning because I had to go drop off some mayors anyway and I'm like I'm gonna go see Maggie this morning. She was like bright eyed and like wanting to eat which her digestive tract is like crap so they can't feed her normally at that point. And she looked bright eyed, bushy tailed. Now her utter looked like it was about to stream milk. So I was like oh great. Like all this stress had for sure sent her into like yeah, kick starting things anyway. It was just so unlikely. And then what was even more unlikely to go positively was less than 24 hours after being cut a second time she goes into labor and I get the call that evening saying well water's broke, we've started, we will let you know how it goes.

[Kimmy]

Great.

[Katie]

Mind you, Happy's also like on full watch and I'm like oh, I can't even leave right now. And so she, I think they called me at 6:50 saying things have started, water's broken. 707, baby's out, super perky. She did it by herself. No help.

[Kimmy]

That's wild.

[Katie]

They're like we tried to help, she didn't want us.

[Kimmy]

Horses are absolutely incredible.

[Katie]

And like Maggie is like I, I just don't know how to convey how unlikely for this to have a positive outcome was which we're still so early in that like Maggie absolutely could still have complications but like baby's pretty safe at this point. I mean not Safe things could still happen. But like, we're not really worried about baby Maggie could still have some complications, but like, I just don't know how. It's like, can you imagine having like a C section and then 24 hours later they say, oh, push a baby out. You're.

[Kimmy]

I really. How. How did. They said that her stomach was bleeding as she was pushing?

[Katie]

Yeah, it was.

[Kimmy]

So was it like breaking the stitches or was it just kind of. Just like the pressure kind of just made it bleed a lot?

[Katie]

Well, you know, I think there's always like a little bleeding and seepage when you have like an open wound like that. Like, anyway, that's why, like you change your bandages stuff. But yeah, the pressure built and like, obviously she's using her, you know, her abdomen, she's using her muscles to push out. And luckily, and I knew, I told them, I was like, when she had her first baby, that thing came out like a rocket. Like she pushes that thing out fast. Yeah, that was Molly. And so, you know, they took that, they noted that. But yeah, it was, it was definitely like heartbreaking to see that. I mean, birth always brings blood. But you're seeing this mom. I mean, this is so graphic. I'm so sorry. Like, you're seeing this mom like tearing herself apart to bring her baby into the world.

[Kimmy]

And she's still here. How.

[Katie]

And she's like crazy. Like chipper. Yeah. And like bright eyed and ears up and like, like they like they sent me a picture and it's like a, it's not a very high quality picture, but like babies standing up, ears up. And in the background he's tending her wounds and she's like licking her baby and. And it's like she's being like stitched back up and like, and she, I don't know, it was just.

[Kimmy]

She's very strong.

[Katie]

It's just insane. And so, yeah, it's been an eventful week. Lots of positive, like lots of saying yes to prayers was happened this week.

[Stephanie]

Yeah.

[Kimmy]

But I have a question about like the surgery itself.

[Katie]

We.

[Kimmy]

Why wouldn't they have like, like with humans, they can tack down a, a colon or an organ or whatever, do they not? Why wouldn't they do that for her horses?

[Katie]

And I know they do that in like dogs and stuff too. Horses. Your colon or their colon, does it need to move? So like, I think a healthy colon moves.

[Kimmy]

Okay.

[Katie]

And again, I'm not a vet, but like from how it was explained to me was in horses, they've tried to do it and it's not common practice. And it's really not done because it tears easily. Got it for some reason in horses more so than other animals. And, I mean, then you're just screwed.

[Kimmy]

Yeah. Like, because we only have one colon.

[Katie]

Yeah. Then you're just screwed. And so, like, I think a healthy colon in a horse, like, can move around as long as it doesn't get hung up. It's, like, stuck. And when there's a big old foal

[Kimmy]

in there, the foot and all.

[Katie]

Yeah. So. So that took up the first. I don't. I don't even know how long of. Of the catching with Katie, but lots of people have been asking questions about that. Like, I mean, the biggest thing is people are like, is she done having babies? I said she was done after her first surgery. She's done. Okay. She's never having babies again. Now. I don't know. I was going to ask the vet about, like, because someone mentioned they're like, would you spay her so that if she ever did have a home in the future, like, they couldn't breed her? And I was like, I. I hadn't thought about that because I don't know, like, spaying isn't, like, a common practice in horses. And so I don't know if that's something that causes, like, hormonal issues. Yeah. You know, like. Like, is it the same as. Because she's very young. I'm like, is it the same as, like, a young woman getting a hysterectomy and then having hormonal issues? I don't know.

[Kimmy]

Yeah.

[Katie]

I'm not saying I wouldn't do it to ensure that, but it didn't cross my mind. But, yeah, that baby's fine. Baby's beautiful. It's a little Philly. Been trying to figure out names for it because everyone wants me to name it Miracle. And I. I know I had the same face. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm not fun.

[Kimmy]

Miracle.

[Katie]

I don't here. If I named every baby Miracle that people suggest that I name Miracle because something happened to make it alive, like, we would have every baby named Miracle, like, there'd be two Miracle babies a year. It just. I don't know. It feels cheesy to me. And I hate to say that she

[Kimmy]

doesn't look like a miracle, like, just from a picture. I haven't seen her in person, but she doesn't. She. I'm just saying she don't.

[Katie]

She's very cute. Unfortunately, people ruined her blaze for me. She has a very, very beautiful Face and very.

[Kimmy]

If it was unique, if it was flipped upside down, it'd be fine.

[Katie]

Very unique face marking. We can put a picture up so that people. I'm not going to tell you what it is because I don't want to ruin it for you.

[Stephanie]

I haven't seen it up close.

[Kimmy]

You'll recognize it.

[Katie]

So there's. I didn't see it until people commented it ruined it.

[Stephanie]

Don't tell me.

[Kimmy]

Immediately.

[Katie]

Immediately I'm not going to tell you. But people ruined it for me and now I can't unsee it. So anyway, sometimes it's like, you know how you can see stuff in the clouds sometimes? Yeah.

[Stephanie]

I don't know if I would have seen it, but if I'm looking for

[Kimmy]

something, I think we should just take a little pen and just color right next to the side of it so it closes.

[Katie]

But yeah, her, she's got the cutest little face. I. I'm more apt to name her something along with Maggie. Like. Like something other form. Like Maggie's short for Margaret, right? Like, what's another short name for Margaret? Like mega. I don't know. Margo.

[Kimmy]

Margo. I like Margot.

[Katie]

I like Margo.

[Stephanie]

Margo.

[Katie]

I just think something to honor like Maggie more so than anything. A Kennedy doesn't even know she has a new kid. Kennedy don't know. Maybe we should go show her a picture. You see your kid, you had a baby. But yeah, it's gonna be a minute before they come home. It'll be. It'll be a while. But all will be well when they do. I'm excited.

[Kimmy]

How long does she have to stay at the clinic?

[Katie]

They haven't really given me a exact time. I know that tomorrow they're planning on introducing like a little bit more of hand. Like she's been interstall since she fold. I think they're going to maybe introduce like a little hand walking. Because, I mean, now we balance the fact that, like, for full development, they need to move. Yeah, they need to move. They need. You know, and I do envision when they do come home for the first little bit, it's probably going to be where like we hand walk Maggie out in the pasture or we hand walk Maggie on the arena and let baby run.

[Kimmy]

Yeah.

[Katie]

You know, I've seen some pretty interesting takes on this whole situation, but I'm just happy.

[Kimmy]

What do you mean?

[Katie]

On Maggie's situation. I'm just happy my mom and baby are alive.

[Kimmy]

Yeah, very much so. So it was a big relief. I walked down the stairs as she was Talking to the doctor. And I was like, please be good news. And I didn't hear her crying, so I was like, okay, this is going well. And then she got off the phone and she was. She's like, what are you doing? I was like, go to the bathroom. She's like, maggie's okay.

[Katie]

And I'm like, okay, well, you did see me the night before. You were just like, lord. On your phone. And then you look up. I'm just like, stop.

[Kimmy]

And I'm like, what do I do? I didn't know what to say.

[Katie]

I was like, did you hear any of that conversation? And you're like, I had on speakerphone.

[Kimmy]

Whenever you're on the phone, I do my best to, like, appreciate it. Zone out, because it's not my business.

[Katie]

Appreciate that. That's noted.

[Kimmy]

Now if it's like, jonathan, you're on speaker. I'm gonna listen. What are y' all talking about? What are y' all doing?

[Stephanie]

I generally do not do that.

[Kimmy]

You listen.

[Stephanie]

If someone's on the phone around me, if I have to take a private conversation, I'll go somewhere private. Private, yeah. So generally, if someone's on the phone and I hear a crazy sentence.

[Katie]

Yeah.

[Stephanie]

I mean, whoa. I'll lock in. What are they talking about? Oh, my goodness.

[Kimmy]

No. A lot of times there's. Sometimes I will be listening and.

[Stephanie]

And then as soon as the phone's off, I'm like, what was that?

[Kimmy]

Tea.

[Katie]

Oh, my goodness. But yeah, I mean, full watch is back. We're doing live full watches. They are mad that we're not doing D and D live.

[Kimmy]

We'll do.

[Stephanie]

We can do it.

[Kimmy]

We'll do something.

[Katie]

I know we.

[Kimmy]

Don't give me that look. I saw that slight little side eye.

[Katie]

So last night we played it and we didn't do it live just because. I don't even know why we didn't do it live last night. I think we were just kind of last.

[Kimmy]

I think we were just playing to play.

[Katie]

Yeah. And. And sometimes we need that. Sometimes we need to, like, not be on social media. And so we were just playing and we had a really big battle and we were big nerds. And it was great.

[Kimmy]

Two and a half hours.

[Katie]

Someone was ready to go to bed and on her phone, not locking in. I was working and paying for the whole shandig. Okay. I was posting until 11 o'.

[Kimmy]

Clock.

[Katie]

And, like, you can't. No one says crap to me because it's like paying everybody to be there that night. But, yeah, we should do that. We need to get back into. We're probably gonna. Well, I say we're gonna do it tonight. This is getting posted way after tonight.

[Stephanie]

Might still be on full watch, though.

[Katie]

I mean, we have three more mares left. A very high possibility. It's like we're on happy full watch right now. We might end up being on Phoebe because Phoebe's been progressing. Annie is also due around the same time. And so. Yeah. I mean, is this.

[Kimmy]

Is there not a possibility there? I mean, obviously there's a possibility that Annie or Phoebe could fall first, but

[Katie]

I'd say it's more likely Phoebe.

[Kimmy]

Yeah. Than Annie.

[Katie]

Annie hasn't been doing much, and. Yeah. Stephanie has been bringing in a new little prediction to the. To the.

[Kimmy]

The checkups.

[Katie]

Yeah. I don't know how I feel about that. She tastes the milk, which I. I understand. I drink cow milk, you know? Like, why is it any different? Probably because it's just, like, straight from the tit. I don't know.

[Kimmy]

True.

[Katie]

And like. Like, sometimes on her hand, she get

[Stephanie]

it just, like, back of her hand, she just.

[Katie]

She just squirts it into her hand and then tastes it. She says it goes from salty, which is, like, not anywhere near. She said Annie was super salty yesterday. And then bland, which is like getting. Getting closer. And then sweet is like, baby.

[Stephanie]

Yeah.

[Kimmy]

Where did she say she learned that from?

[Katie]

So she's worked on. If you haven't watched her video.

[Kimmy]

I haven't watched it myself, to be honest. I need to go watch it.

[Katie]

See, I see.

[Stephanie]

You could just ask her.

[Katie]

Just ask Stephanie.

[Kimmy]

That's very.

[Katie]

But she.

[Kimmy]

What do you want me to give you the view?

[Katie]

She's worked on multiple breeding farms.

[Kimmy]

How old is she? Because I saw some comments tell you that. Well, no, I was, like, looking at some comments on, like, the. The. Okay, cool. I was looking at some comments on, like, the video that you post of, like, the YouTube video. And some people were like, how long has she been in this business?

[Katie]

She looks great. Yeah.

[Kimmy]

And I was like, truly, how long has she been in this business? Because what. How has she lived so many lives?

[Stephanie]

I mean, nobody would believe she's, like, 45.

[Katie]

Stop it.

[Kimmy]

That wasn't me.

[Katie]

That was all him. Because you'll never know. Not my secret to tell.

[Stephanie]

She certainly doesn't look 45. Well, she does not look 45. No, that I can say for sure.

[Katie]

She's just like. So today, which. Y' all will see it later, she rode Molly for the first time, and it's just, like. Just aura beaming off of her, you know?

[Kimmy]

And she's like, I say this all the time. She's cool as hell.

[Katie]

She's my barn crush. Like, it's fine.

[Kimmy]

Literally, she's cool.

[Katie]

It's fine. I have issues. Should we do another game of who is this animal? And see if Lindsay knows who they are?

[Kimmy]

Oh, yeah, let's try it. Because I've been messing up, bro.

[Katie]

Messing up.

[Kimmy]

Yeah. I freaking called Kennedy ginger.

[Katie]

All right.

[Kimmy]

I also called Waylon ginger.

[Katie]

I'm gonna screenshot these as I go this time so that it's nice and

[Kimmy]

easy,

[Katie]

and I'll send them to Nate. Okay. We're gonna end today's episode with seeing how far you've come by working here and if you know some of these animals. Okay. Because you should.

[Kimmy]

I'm worried.

[Katie]

You should.

[Kimmy]

I'm very worried.

[Katie]

So who is. And mind you, these are going to come up on the screen. Who is this?

[Kimmy]

Can you zoom in on the nose? That's arlene. Hold on. Who's the other one that I mixed up?

[Katie]

Is it Earlene?

[Kimmy]

I believe it's Earlene.

[Katie]

Okay. I mean, it is. You got little. She's got the little freckles. She got the little freckles. Who's this?

[Kimmy]

I want to say Maggie, but I don't think so.

[Stephanie]

I. I actually don't. I don't know from that photo.

[Kimmy]

I actually think it's Maggie.

[Katie]

Is it Maggie?

[Kimmy]

It could be

[Katie]

Timothy, who is.

[Kimmy]

He's been doing so well. I really think it's Maggie, but I. It could be, like.

[Katie]

It's not Maggie.

[Kimmy]

Is it Beyonce?

[Katie]

It is not Beyonce.

[Stephanie]

Let me see one more time.

[Kimmy]

Maggie and Beyonce. Ricky.

[Katie]

It is Ricky.

[Kimmy]

Got it, got it, got it, got it.

[Katie]

Got. Is Ricky.

[Stephanie]

It had to be a new one because she didn't look familiar.

[Kimmy]

But the thing is, is, like, her face is, like, a little bit tilted up the sun.

[Katie]

Alrighty. Alrighty. Let's go into a different species, shall we?

[Kimmy]

Oh, heck.

[Katie]

Shall we watch her?

[Kimmy]

Show me, like, Blanche, and I'll be like Dorothy.

[Stephanie]

I think I could get those.

[Kimmy]

Could you?

[Katie]

Who's that?

[Stephanie]

That is you.

[Katie]

Hold on. Give her a second, pumpkin.

[Stephanie]

Oh, yeah.

[Katie]

She's right on that one.

[Stephanie]

That's punk.

[Katie]

She was right on that one.

[Stephanie]

That's a little punk.

[Katie]

That's that little punk. Little punk. Okay, this is gonna be hard.

[Kimmy]

Oh, no. For both of us or just me,

[Katie]

but I definitely not. I'm going to be so shocked if either one of you gets this is

[Kimmy]

it one that's so.

[Katie]

This is one that I. I'm gonna give them, like, I Doubt they know.

[Stephanie]

Okay,

[Kimmy]

Melody.

[Katie]

I knew you were gonna get it because we gave her a shot last night.

[Kimmy]

Together. Well, no. Also, she. She looked a little grimy.

[Stephanie]

I mean, I certainly would have guessed one of the new ones.

[Kimmy]

She looked grimy.

[Katie]

She's just.

[Stephanie]

I might actually. I might have accidentally called her Melanie. We don't have a Melanie, do we?

[Katie]

We do not have a Melanie. Melanie. What's the other one, Melody?

[Stephanie]

The other one?

[Kimmy]

Kimberly.

[Katie]

Kimberly.

[Stephanie]

Kimberly.

[Kimmy]

She has the star.

[Stephanie]

Okay. Kimberly, not Melanie.

[Katie]

She's literally just going through.

[Kimmy]

She looked chopped.

[Katie]

Literally just going through. My camera roll from, like, the recent pictures.

[Kimmy]

Do some.

[Katie]

I'm not gonna give you who you want.

[Kimmy]

I know. Give me a.

[Katie]

Okay. This was kind of difficult, I feel like, because it's. Doesn't show everything. Okay. Who is it?

[Kimmy]

I want to. Okay. The lighting's kind of tripping me up because it could be. Is that Indie?

[Katie]

It is not. It's Raven.

[Kimmy]

What the. Where's the little thing on her side?

[Katie]

Right there.

[Kimmy]

Oh, I didn't see the lighting. The lighting from far away, but I

[Katie]

could tell that without the thing.

[Kimmy]

You have owned these horses forever.

[Katie]

Only had Raven for two years.

[Kimmy]

That's too long. Two more years around her than me.

[Katie]

You've been here almost a year, girl.

[Kimmy]

Oh, okay. So one. One more year longer than me.

[Katie]

Now this is. You're gonna both get this. I just want to show it because she's so fat. By me saying that description. Who's it going to be?

[Kimmy]

There's many that it. Could you call a lot of the mayors fat.

[Katie]

Who do you think is going to be if.

[Kimmy]

Karen. Regina.

[Katie]

She's just so fat.

[Kimmy]

She's doing what, June?

[Katie]

So her due date is July 7th, but she had George at, like, day three 13 or something like that. Yeah. So I think it's gonna be June. Like. Yeah, I think she did that with her first.

[Stephanie]

Maybe on your birthday.

[Katie]

Little birthday. Maybe. Maybe. And then I guess we'll just kind of end on this last one. Make it a good one.

[Kimmy]

Make it hard.

[Katie]

Hard. Okay. Oh, I know how to. I know how to make it hard.

[Kimmy]

I don't know what.

[Katie]

Don't clip that

[Stephanie]

well. They weren't going to. Now they're going to.

[Katie]

Hold on. I know what I need to do. Who's that?

[Kimmy]

Not gracie.

[Katie]

You said not gracie.

[Kimmy]

It's not.

[Stephanie]

Let me see again.

[Kimmy]

I'm trying to remember the Opal's nose. Opal has more pink on her nose. I'm pretty sure.

[Stephanie]

I think that is Opal.

[Katie]

Is it?

[Kimmy]

It's Opal.

[Katie]

It is, Opal. It is. Okay, y' all passed. Hope you enjoyed today's episode. I'm so sorry if it was kind of like, low energy and, like, can I say I have a smoker's voice today?

[Stephanie]

It can certainly be said.

[Katie]

You think. Do you think that it would offend the smokers in my comment section if

[Kimmy]

they get offended by that?

[Stephanie]

Look, we don't, bro. There's just going to be pearl clutchers in the comments.

[Katie]

You know, my voice is just going through it, and so it's just a little bit. It's just a little bit low energy. I'm sorry we're all tired, but I hope, you know, for those wanting a little bit more insight on Maggie's situation. You got it. We're really, really happy that she and baby are here with us. We're gonna keep our prayers up, keep our positive thoughts up. Hopefully we have another healthy baby by the end of the weekend. We need to go to sleep anyway. See y' all in the next one.

[Stephanie]

Bye.