Due Date Soon! Let's Check The Mares!

What this episode is about

This update details the expected foaling of Raven, the most pregnant mare at 335 days, and discusses her pregnancy progression and health. The discussion includes measurements of her belly size and predictions for the timing of her delivery, while highlighting the competitive nature of the other mares who will foal soon after her.

Key takeaways

• Raven's belly is so low, it could practically be a speed bump—five days from due date and counting!
• Indie’s baby feels like a footlong sub—smoothie on the outside, rock-hard surprise inside; pregnancy is full of twists!
• Ricky’s numbers fluctuate like the stock market—up and down, but at least she doesn't have to file taxes!
• Chestnuts roasting on an open fire? More like mamas deflecting pesky chestnut inquiries while preparing for deliveries!
• Coco may be on her third foal, but this pregnancy is as fresh as a TikTok trend—there’s always something new!

Who speaks in this episode?

• Katie Van Slyke (Host) · 15 min speaking
• Matthew (Guest) · 2 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 3:00: Raven, 2026 foing season, Indie, YouTube
2. 3:00 – 6:00: Indie, Ricky, Lexi
3. 6:00 – 9:00: Dr. Stacy Charlotte, Ricky
4. 9:00 – 12:00: Dr. Stacy Charlotte, Lexi, Lizzy Maggie, Phoebe
5. 12:00 – 15:00: Lizzy Maggie, Dr. Stacy Charlotte, Millie Happy, Phoebe
6. 15:00 – 16:32: YouTube, Millie Happy, Snapchat

Notable quotes from "Due Date Soon! Let's Check The Mares!"

• Again, I still think she's going to be the first one to f, but there's two coming up right behind her that including the mini. I just think after she folds, it's going to be a race.

  about Raven · at 1:39

• The rest of the mayors are all going outside today in their respective pastures. So, let's go to Indie who's due next. Now, you're seeing these mamas in their natural habitat.…

  about Indie · at 2:49

• All right, next up is Ricky. So, Ricky, oh, she dirty. She been rolling. I saw her laid flat out last night because she is so tired. So, Ricky, this will be her first baby. So, Ricky, this is her first.

  about Ricky · at 5:11

• So, Miss Charlotte is probably one of the more slender mares of the year. So, she was found in a killpin, was underweight, and she's also thoroughbred. So, naturally, she's…

  about Dr. Stacy Charlotte · at 7:52

• So Phoebe and Maggie are both carrying babies for the same mayor, which is Kennedy, VS, the first lady, and they're only a couple days apart. And so they're both due in April. So these are.

  about Phoebe · at 11:07

• Hi. Maggie's another one that stays kind of slender. We have been working kind of hard to get her weight up because last time when she had Molly two years ago, she did get dragged down a little bit and then she had a year off and then now.

  about Lizzy Maggie · at 12:24

• It's going to be a race to see who ends the 2026 folding season because Annie and Happy have the same due date. So they are both due with the same baby daddy even.

  about 2026 foing season · at 13:11

• Our fingers it stays that way. And let's end the big horses, their measurements with Miss Happy again. Same due date, same baby daddy. And this is both of their third foss. So…

  about Millie Happy · at 14:43

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Raven — Person · Core subject (pregnant mare featured in update) · 3 mentions · first at 0:24
  Raven is described as the most pregnant and likely first to foal, driving the episode’s urgency and monitoring plans.
• Indie — Person · Core subject (pregnant mare featured in update) · 3 mentions · first at 2:52
  Indie is the next mare due after Raven; the speakers discuss fetal movement, belly measurements, and her typical full-term history.
• Dr. Stacy Charlotte — Person · Core subject (pregnant mare featured in update) · 5 mentions · first at 6:36
  Charlotte is discussed as a slender thoroughbred rescue from a kill pen; her measurement and maiden status are compared to Ricky.
• Ricky — Person · Core subject (pregnant mare featured in update) · 2 mentions · first at 5:11
  Ricky is a maiden mare (first baby) with a near-term due date; the episode tracks her measurements and udder development.
• Lexi — Person · Core subject (pregnant mare featured in update) · 3 mentions · first at 5:47
  Lexi is positioned as the mid-season due date (March 12) and is measured and discussed as small-statured but gaining size.
  This looks like a 90 91 and a half.
• Lizzy Maggie — Person · Core subject (pregnant mare featured in update) · 3 mentions · first at 11:07
  Maggie is also carrying a Kennedy foal; discussion focuses on keeping her weight up and her relation to a prior foal (Kirby).
• Phoebe — Person · Core subject (pregnant mare featured in update) · 2 mentions · first at 11:07
  Phoebe is one of two mares carrying foals by the same sire (Kennedy); her skittishness and measurement changes are noted.
• Millie Happy — Person · Core subject (pregnant mare featured in update) · 2 mentions · first at 14:47
  Happy shares the same due date and sire as Annie; her measurement and udder check close out the month’s updates.

Places & events

• 2026 foing season — Event · Core topic (seasonal foaling timeline) · 1 mention · first at 0:00
  The episode is framed as a 'bump date' update within the 2026 foaling season, organizing mares by due dates and monitoring plans.

Media & podcasts

• YouTube — Media · Primary episode platform (monthly updates) · 3 mentions · first at 0:13
  YouTube is the platform for the longer monthly update video and where viewers are invited to ask questions.
  Teeth are a little bit longer, but it's not full. So, that's happy. That's all of the measurements this month. Now, I'm really hoping the next video y'all see is a full announcement and a birth and a healthy baby and mama with Miss Raven.
• Snapchat — Media · Behind-the-scenes distribution channel · 1 mention · first at 16:07
  Snapchat is promoted for time-limited behind-the-scenes content with very high posting volume.
  Want that. So, go ahead and get ahead of everything. Follow on Snapchat. You're going to see a whole lot of stuff. We've been posting like 150 to 200 snaps a day. So, it's kind…
• Tik Tok — Media · Distribution channel · 1 mention · first at 0:06
  Tik Tok is cited as a platform where the creators post bump-date updates more frequently.
  Welcome to the second bump date of the 2026 foing season. So, we do these a little bit more frequently on Tik Tok and Facebook and things. We've been doing weekly bump dates on…
• Facebook — Media · Distribution channel · 1 mention · first at 0:06
  Facebook is mentioned alongside Tik Tok as a place where bump-date updates are posted more often.
  Welcome to the second bump date of the 2026 foing season. So, we do these a little bit more frequently on Tik Tok and Facebook and things. We've been doing weekly bump dates on…

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 Welcome to the second bump date of the 2026 foing season. So, we do these a little bit more frequently on Tik Tok and Facebook and things. We've been doing weekly bump dates on the mamas who are due soon, but we're trying to do, you know, a little update video on YouTube monthly. So, it's been about a month since the last time we measured his big old baby bellies. So, we're going to start from most pregnant to least pregnant. Raven is the most pregnant at 335 days. So that's about 5 days away from her traditional due date.

0:32 They can go overdue. I don't see that happening with Miss Raven. We've done one night of full wash so far. So last month she was 96 in around. And I can already tell you she's grown cuz she has grown in the previous ones. So I'm I'm going to guess I don't know 99. I mean look

0:51 look how low that goes. I think it's 100. You think 100? She's like hey. She's like, "Hey, hey, hey hey."

1:00 97.98. Let's from 6 to 7. 67. Stop it. We're not starting that in my videos. Said not my videos.

1:11 Oh my gosh. Okie dokie. Of course she's. Oh, give it to me. She's going to have it in the coldest night of the last month. Okay. 98 and a quarter. Good job.

1:28 98 98 and a quarter. 2 and 1/4 in in the last month. Good job. Again, Raven is the first mayor do. Again, I still think she's going to be the first one to f, but there's two coming up right behind her that including the mini. I I just think after she folds, it's going to be a race between four different mayors as to who's going to be number two. So, she's actually going back in her stall because there's a little run off of it. And her full alert, she's been she's been acting off. And so, her full alert won't work if it's out in the pasture. So, if she decides to have a daytime baby, again, I've never had a FO with Raven. I don't know what she does. And so, we're going to keep her close so she can still go outside. Uh, it's just going to keep her close enough to the monitor to get a full alert response if she goes into labor. So, look at that belly, girlfriend. Sophie and Opal want to talk

2:22 to you. Huh? Don't people take the chestnuts off the horses? Yeah, sometimes. You want to do it?

2:35 I do. She wants to peel them. I do. You want to peel the chest of the peel? The the nut of chest. Ah,

2:42 the nut of cheese. The nut of cheese. I want to peel. I want to peel. I want to peel.

2:49 The rest of the mayors are all going outside today in their respective pastures. So, let's go to Indie who's due next. Now, you're seeing these mamas in their natural habitat. They were laying down. They are all so stinking pregnant that they are uncomfortable. I watched Indie sleep for a while last night. Now, I've been There's There's like a foot right there.

3:13 You feel it? That's crazy. You want to feel it? Yeah, I do. There's a foot right there.

3:17 Something right there. And it just moved. It just moved. That's crazy, isn't that?

3:25 Like what's crazy is I was doing it with Raven last night cuz she's, you know, a couple weeks farther ahead than uh Indie. Indie right now, her baby's like viable. It's just a preeie still. Yeah. Um, so I was touching right here and it I could sink my finger in like four inches and then all of a sudden it'd be rock hard. Indie is normally the race for our largest mayor. She usually breaks 100 in. She also wants to go outside, give her a moment, recoup. Indie normally goes over 100 in. I think she's not going to be quite as big as Raven right now, but again, she's a couple weeks behind her. This looks like about 90 96 and 3/4 to me.

4:07 You think? Yeah. Now, she also normally goes full term. That's what I know from her previous babies.

4:16 90. That's so dumb. I hate you. For the record, it's 96 and 3/4. Ah, 97. It's 97. So, she's a little bit behind Raven. Now, the difference in her at the moment because she's I I would say, you know, weeks out from folding, she's a lot uh firmer in her hips. I mean, she's getting jiggly, but Raven is like a dang water bed right now. And then her tits, they have barely any production to them. So, Raven has, you know, these full teeths that look like they could explode, whereas Indie is just now starting to get some milk production.

4:55 So, that last couple weeks, lots of changes start happening. So, Miss Indie, our second mama due, uh, February 7th is her due date. She is 97 in around. Thank you. All right, next up is Ricky. So, Ricky, oh, she dirty. She been rolling. I saw her laid flat out last night because she is so tired. So, Ricky, this will be her first baby. So, Ricky, this is her first baby. She was only 89 and 3/4 last time. She's 315 days today. So, she's inching up on that safe date. We considered a 320 the safe date. So, I mean, she very well could be Indie safely to the finish line. So, we'll see. We'll see. I think she's going to be 90 and a half. I don't think she grew that much.

5:47 This looks This looks like a 90 91 and a half. No, she's 80 9 and a half. So she has been over 90. She has gone. So she's gone down a smidge. She I mean that's kind of common towards the late end. They fluctuate a little bit, but I just think she's also a little bit more like firm in her abdominal muscles from where she was ridden up until the last couple months of her pregnancy. So I just don't think she's going to get that big like she's probably just going to be right over 90 the whole time. So we'll see. But Miss Ricky is third due. She is due only 2 days after Indie. So she's due on February 9th. Now the next mayor due we're gonna have to jump to the next place. The next mayor do is Coco due February 10th.

6:35 Coco and then we'll come back for Charlotte. So we have three mini due. One of them within regular foing season. The other two are a little bit later. They're more kind of summer due dates. So Coco here, this will be her third f first with us. She was 64 and 1/2 in around last time. Now she's at like day three, I think 14. And minis can actually fold a little bit earlier than big horses. Her previous owner told me that she has fold in the 320s and in the 350s. So, we don't know what's going to happen, but let's see.

7:06 64 and a half. I have to get on my knees for this one. Oh my gosh. Stop it, Matthew. Okay, so her she's a little fluffier, too, than others. 66. So, she's gained an inch and a half in the last month. And I mean, at her size, that's a lot more. And then her udder, it's starting to fill out. Her little mini udder is starting to fill out for sure. So, we did go ahead and put a fo alert in her like with the big horses. This is the first year we've done that, and I think it's going to help us out because they don't tend to give as traditional of signs as the big horses.

7:45 So, I really want to make sure that we're here for her. Charlotte. So, Miss Charlotte is probably one of the more slender mares of the year. So, she was found in a killpin, was underweight, and she's also thoroughbred. So, naturally, she's just a little leaner. She was 86 in around last time. She's a few days behind Ricky in her due date. So, she is due on February 12th. She is 311 days or 312 days, something like that today. So, not quite where we want her, you know, we want her to wait some weeks before she folds, but let's see how how big she is.

8:25 I think she's going to stick right around 87 inish. Want to see it? You're a good girl. Get the biggest part. Oh, she and Ricky are not that far apart. So, 88. Just over 88 and a half. We'll go with 88 and 1/2. She's getting big. So, if you want to see a mom that's a a maiden and oh, she's starting to get the tiniest bit of a bag. So, she's a maiden. She's never had a baby before. Her udder is going to look nowhere near like ravens. Like, even when she's ready to fall, it's not going to look like ravens.

9:01 So, her udder is Maybe we don't look at hers. She's She's a little excited. Maybe Hey, let's look at Ricky's really quick. We'll look at Ricky's udder because she's a maiden. See, Ricky's is interesting though because Charlotte has a more developed udder than Ricky. Ricky's teeth are like still super drawn up, but she is starting to gain some edema in her bag. So, you'll see it's it's pretty weird looking. So, breeding season last year didn't go quite as planned, which means my foing season is kind of drawn out. So, we have first foing season where we have four regulariz mayors and one mini due, right? Then we have Lexi who's due right in the middle, a month after Charlotte.

9:43 She's coming up next. Then four mayors a month after Lexi do all at the same time within two days of each other. Oh yeah. And then many mayors do in May and July. So,

9:55 yay. So Lexi's a little more skittish, but she's doing better. Lexi is due March 12th. So she's the fifth mare do again. She's kind of just smack dab in the middle of everybody. So she was 88 and 12 inches around last time. She's the tiniest mare. Look at how small. 88 and a half. She's been a little bit on the tubbier side the whole time. So, she's beautiful. Oh, lord. Girlfriend, we need to rain this in. N Oh, well, hold on. Hold on. I was just being a little 91 and a half.

10:34 Okay, 91 and a half. So, she she's done some growing. She is not due for a minute. So, we probably shouldn't get much larger than that. I'm just saying. I'm not saying you're not beautiful cuz you you are. But you're we're a little on the large side, especially for your stature and height. Maybe that's why cuz she's so small.

10:53 Yeah. There ain't nohere for it to go. So, anyway, that's Lexi. Her udder is like non-exist. Oh, no. She's got a little something. She's got more of one than Ricky. So Phoebe and Maggie are both carrying babies for the same mayor, which is Kennedy, uh, VS, the first lady, and they're only a couple days apart. And so they're both due in April. So these are starting of the second folding season, uh, that we have in April.

11:23 Yeah. Round two. Hi, Phoebe. So remember, Phoebe's a little more skittish. A little more skittish. Hi, Febs. Last year, she did not like this at all. She's gotten a lot better. I hope that I say with confidence and she continues to be. Let's see. Hi Bi. Good girl. Oh, 80. What did you say she was?

11:51 Oh, she's only grown a little bit. Good. She's only grown to 80. Whoa. She blew out her stomach. Just kidding.

11:58 Big breath. Took a big breath. I would say, let's just say 88 because it was like kind of 87 and a half, kind of 88 and 1/2 and then it kind of went to 88. So 88 inches. She's only grown like 3/4 of an inch. Good girl. Thank you for being so nice. Okay, she is only a couple days ahead of Maggie. Maggie. Phoebe is carrying a full sibling to my young stallion, Denver. First things first. And then Maggie is carrying a full sibling to Kirby from 2025. Hi. Maggie's another one that stays kind of slender. We have been working kind of hard to get her weight up because last time when she had Molly two years ago, she did get dragged down a little bit and then she had a year off and then now she's having uh Kirby's full sibling which Kirby was a chunk. So I'm like, "Okay, we need to make sure you're nice and fat prior to folding." But again, these mayors, they're months out. I mean, they are nowhere near folding.

12:48 Hopefully, she's doing good. So she's, you know, almost the same size as like Charlotte and you know, Charlotte's due soon. So she, I would say 86 86 inches around. I would love for her to be over 90 before she folds. It's going to be a race to see who ends the 2026 folding season because Annie and Happy have the same due date. So they are both due with the same baby daddy even.

13:19 Wow. First things first. So Annie has gone full term with both of her babies before, but I think they were both boys. This is a girl.

13:29 You think this is a girl? I I know it's a girl. You just have a new suspicion. She might do something different, you know. And it's a different baby daddy. So, we shall see. Annie does get chunky. She does. She's large. This is her third baby. So, she was 88 in around last time. Let me see here.

13:47 Go Annie. Go Annie. little big girl. So Annie gave us a scare and the last bump day actually helped us because we were like paying close attention that morning and we noticed that her udder blew up and so we took her to the vet immediately that day. She's 90 and a half. 90 and a half. So she's grown a little bit. She's again she's she's a big girl. So her udder still has more of a production to it than I would want. But I think we're kind of stable at the moment. We're doing checks on her. She's on double regimeate. Um we did have her at the clinic over the weekend just to make sure that she didn't need monitoring and whatnot. Uh and then you know sometimes horses can get placentitis and things that cause them to progress too early and then have a fold too early. So we wanted to make sure that she was all good. And so right now all of her blood work, ultrasounds, everything looked good. So let's cross

14:43 our fingers it stays that way. And let's end the big horses, their measurements with Miss Happy again. Same due date, same baby daddy. And this is both of their third foss. So she was 86 and a half last time. I think she's going to be bigger than Annie.

14:58 Really? I don't know. Maybe that's just my standing next to her. What do you think? Happy.

15:04 They seem kind of about the same. Happy. It's okay. Oh, you're okay. Let's see. Oh, yeah. She grew. Uh 90. Yeah, let's just go 90. So, they're both a little on large side for being last do, but you know what? You're going to have plenty to feed that baby. I promise. So, just to make sure, I'm going to check her udder. Hers looks good. Hers looks like it was nursing, you know, a few months ago. So, the teeth are a little bit longer, but it's not full. So, that's happy. That's all of the measurements this month. Now, I'm really hoping the next video y'all see is a full announcement and a birth and a healthy baby and mama with Miss Raven.

15:54 But, we shall see. Let me know what you think. Let me know which mama and fo you are so excited to see this season. And let me know if you have any questions. We would love to answer in more depth here on YouTube. And if you haven't already, go follow my Snapchat for behind the scenes. same day. They only last 24 hours. So, by the time this comes out, you will have missed the behind the scenes of today. And we don't want that. So, go ahead and get ahead of everything. Follow on Snapchat. You're going to see a whole lot of stuff. We've been posting like 150 to 200 snaps a day. So, it's kind of crazy. Anyway, hope youall enjoyed and I'll see you in the next one.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "Due Date Soon! Let's Check The Mares!"?

Katie Van Slyke (Host), Matthew (Guest).

What is "Due Date Soon! Let's Check The Mares!" about?

This update details the expected foaling of Raven, the most pregnant mare at 335 days, and discusses her pregnancy progression and health. The discussion includes measurements of her belly size and predictions for the timing of her delivery, while highlighting the competitive nature of the other mares who will foal soon after her.

What is mentioned in this Katie Van Slyke episode?

13 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Raven, 2026 foing season, Indie, Dr. Stacy Charlotte, Ricky, Lexi. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Due Date Soon! Let's Check The Mares!"?

The episode runs 17 min; the transcript is about 2,950 words in 37 timestamped sections.

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