About this episode

Katie and Lindsay discuss the challenges and surprises of foaling season on the farm.

Visit https://wildgrain.com/katievanslyke and use code “katievanslyke” at checkout to receive $30 your first box + free croissants for life! Today’s Katching Up With Katie is basically a foaling season survival update 😂🐴 We are beyond tired. We have had 3 foals in one week (plus one the week before), and we have been on full watch so long I genuinely do not know what day it is anymore. This is Lindsay’s first ever foaling season, so we sit down and talk about what it is really like behind the scenes when you go from a smooth, fast foaling to a situation where things get scary really fast. We also get into the part nobody thinks about until it happens: the content and storage chaos. Between regular farm videos, subscriber footage, and multiple long births, we ran out of hard drive space, ran out of card space, and learned that apparently hard drives are in short supply when you need them the most. Add in a sick cow visit and normal chores that do not pause for foaling season, and it has been a WEEK. In this episode we cover: My biggest surprises from this foaling season Lindsay’s first foaling season takeaways and stress moments The grossest foaling “icks” and what we do with…

People in this episode

Host: Katie Van Slyke

Guest: Lindsay

Topics covered

• foaling season
• farm life
• animal care
• challenges
• personal experiences

Keywords

• foaling season
• farm chaos
• mare pregnancy
• new foals
• animal care

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