Transcript

I Put My Vet To The Test! | Vet Day

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· 28 min · 4,566 words · 133 timestamped sections

This is the full, timestamped transcript of "I Put My Vet To The Test! | Vet Day", an episode of Katie Van Slyke published February 12, 2026 (28 min, about 4,566 words). It mentions 9 people, works and ideas, including Dr. Emily, Natea, Kate Blanch, Dolly, Pawsum.

What this episode is about

The content focuses on the challenges of caring for a young goat named Moose, who is growing increasingly mischievous and requires medical attention, including treating his skin with baby oil to prevent discomfort. The narrative also hints at ongoing farm activities, such as checking on other animals and handling the unpredictable nature of baby goats.

Key takeaways

  • Welcome to parenthood: when sweet dreams turn into wrestling matches with tiny demons named Moose.
  • Forget the stigma around baby oil; sometimes it's the heroic balm that prevents catastrophic diaper disasters.
  • Ice storms and goats? An adorable battle of survival – evidence that winter does more than just affect our mood.
  • In the world of livestock, counting babies isn't just cute; it requires x-rays and the patience of a saint.
  • When life hands you dead grass, move donkeys for a change of scenery – even animals need a vacation!

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 5:00: Moose, Lakeland Farm and Ranch, Natea, Dolly
  2. – 10:00: Dr. Emily, Pawsum, Ari Matthew
  3. – 25:00: Kate Blanch, Dolly, Dorothy, Ari Matthew
  4. – 27:41: Pawsum, Kate Blanch

Notable quotes from "I Put My Vet To The Test! | Vet Day"

  • The baby that you saw born is no longer the sweet, innocent little baby that you saw born. It is now a demon. A demon by the name of Moose. And Moose needs some medicine, some…
    about Moose · at
  • Lakeland Farm and Ranch to update my own stalls while also giving one of y'all a stable makeover. One lucky winner will win a $5,000 Lakeland equipment credit that they can use…
    about Lakeland Farm and Ranch · at
  • It was Dr. Emily. if you're willing to try, I'm willing to pay for it.
    about Dr. Emily · at
  • Goats we're having. We're going to check on that in another video. We're going to wait a little bit longer for those. Name obviously is super happy to finally be outside. Prima…
    about Natea · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Dr. Emily — Person · On-scene expert (veterinarian performing ultrasound) · 2 mentions · first at
    The veterinarian actively performing pregnancy ultrasound and advising on gestational timing and imaging limits (ultrasound vs. x-ray).
  • Natea — Person · Animal featured (calf under veterinary evaluation) · 1 mention · first at
    A blue roan calf with a previously fractured foot; the vet visit includes x-rays and a decision about turning him out to pasture.
  • Kate Blanch — Person · Animal featured (donkey being moved) · 7 mentions · first at
    One of the donkeys being relocated to a different pasture; used in a playful “race” sequence and described as aggressive toward goats.
    Going to have the vet out and just make sure. And then we are going to move donkeys. So, we are moving our donkeys, Blanch, Dolly, and Dorothy because they've been with the…
  • Dolly — Person · Animal featured (donkey being moved) · 3 mentions · first at
    A donkey being moved with Blanch and Dorothy; central to the comedic handling/racing bit (“Dilly Dally Dolly”).
    Going to have the vet out and just make sure. And then we are going to move donkeys. So, we are moving our donkeys, Blanch, Dolly, and Dorothy because they've been with the…
  • Pawsum — Person · Animal featured (newborn calf) · 3 mentions · first at
    A newly named calf (P-year naming theme) referenced as one of the newest calves and shown interacting with older calves outside.
    Pawsum doesn't know what to do with all these big babies. He's the tiniest one.
  • Dorothy — Person · Animal featured (donkey being moved) · 3 mentions · first at
    One of the donkeys being moved; appears in the race sequence as “Dot,” noted as a kicker and part of the group relocation.
    Going to have the vet out and just make sure. And then we are going to move donkeys. So, we are moving our donkeys, Blanch, Dolly, and Dorothy because they've been with the…
  • Moose — Person · Animal featured (newborn; described humorously as a 'demon') · 2 mentions · first at
    A baby animal whose care (softening/cleaning the rear to prevent scours-related crusting/tearing) is used to open the episode with a comedic, high-stakes handling moment.
  • Ari Matthew — Person · Referenced expert (veterinarian) · 2 mentions · first at
    A veterinarian involved in on-farm animal care; mentioned as someone the farm works with and as a point of comparison during the vet visit.
    You know how far along Dr. Matthew? Was it Dr. Matthew?

Sponsors

  • Lakeland Farm and Ranch — Product · Sponsor · 1 mention · first at
    Sponsor of the podcast episode, offering a giveaway for farm equipment upgrades.

Full transcript with timestamps

The baby that you saw born is no longer the sweet, innocent little baby that you saw born. It is now a demon. A demon by the name of Moose. And Moose needs some medicine, some baby oil on his butt. And we are going to be disturbing his sleep, which he hates. So pray for us and let's go get in danger together.

She was talking to you, Rachel. I'm in danger. Lucy poo. My big boy. Okay. It's all okay. We're just going to be friends. We're just going to be friends. I need you to forget about the yucky stuff that I put on your booty and in your mouth yesterday. Yeah, let's forget all about that. Easy. I've been trying not to just manhandle him if I can help it, but you know, come on. I'll

kill him. Oh, he's getting mad. Watch out for the legs. You're You're in danger.

I know. You're in so much danger. I know. I'm going to try to move in. I don't. That seems like the worst way to do it.

Wait, what does the baby say? It softens. So like at around 7 to 10 days after they're born and some some say it's because the mom comes into full heat, but it has to do with the flora developing in their gut and they get like diarrhea and if you don't soften it, it gets crusty and can like tear their skin off and get like really uncomfortable and then you have like scour. And so we just keep their butt soft so that they don't get all crusty and gross. Now that he's good and mad at me, uh, we're going to leave him. Obviously, we don't have another baby to show you quite yet. We are still on full watch.

If you haven't watched, we've been doing live videos just about every night. And we kind of go back in between like the mini farm because our mini marco is due, indies do, all those things. So, if you want to check that out, do so. But next, we are going to go check our goats. Do a little pre check, see if we can see how many there are. But, it might be too early, so we might have to do another checkup. We're going to check on Natea, which is the little blue rone calf who had a fractured foot. We would like to put him out today if we can. So, we're going to have the vet out and just make sure. And then we are going to move donkeys. So, we are moving our donkeys, Blanch, Dolly, and Dorothy because they've been with the miniature horses for so long. Um, we have a couple pastures that are dead grass and so they can't really overeat right now, which is their problem. So, they need a change of

scenery. So, if all that sounds fun to you, let's do it. photos when they try not to focus on their feet, but all the other sisters are just being cute. These three are being aggressive,

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skullish. Trying to get the rest of the ghettos to get in there. Um, so we just had this ice storm, right? I feel like I've talked about it quite a bit. The ice storm sucked. The goats were so freaking cold. And generally bedding for them, hay is going to be a little bit better of a lice preventative. Not totally prevention, but hay isn't as conducive of like a breeding ground as straw is generally. straw is very tubular, but it's warmer and it's drier. And so they got so cold that I was like, you know what? I'm going to bed them and then I'm going to treat them for lice after all is said and done. So today, while the vet is here, we're doing just like a little lice pouron treatment. So we're trying to get them all to go in the house so we can pour the lice treatment on them.

Would be too far to check in. These are too far to count. So you're right. You'd have to x-ray them later.

Do you have an air? I do, but I don't know if they would be oified enough yet. You know how far along Dr. Matthew? Was it Dr. Matthew?

It was Dr. Emily. Um, if you're willing to try, I'm willing to pay for it. Yeah, we can try.

She's definitely pregnant. We're pregnant. I mean, they're big enough to where you can't you can't count. She

is pregnant. There's one right there for sure. Yeah. I wish I could have him get it on film to where

So, we're ultrasounding. Let me try to get it a little bit. And they're about 2 months or they should be about 2 months along now. They're a little bit too far along for the ultrasound to catch like

Not sure if you can see that. That's ribs. Can you see make out the ribs there?

Yeah. See, this scanner does. It's not quite the right probe for deeper penetration, but there's definitely a baby right there.

Okay. She looks a little large already. Yeah, she does. So, you put them in December 9th.

Yeah. April 9th. So, she's easily two and a half month. Yeah. Two two and a half months.

Yep. December. Yeah. Um, yeah. Leave her in here though if she wants. All three that are supposed to be in here are in here. So, if we're going to thinking though, I never even thought about x-raying to count them.

We do it every doll. We've done it. We've done it two kitties because I'm going to tell you, even the people who count, they're wrong all the time.

Yeah. She's pregnant as well. So, I want to show you something on here Katie. this other thing for ultrasound. These little bowl, you see these little bowls right here.

Uhhuh. So that's what we call um placin tones. Uhhuh. Um and that's where the mom and the baby's placenta bond bind together and pass nutrition, right?

There's a fetus. So you can if you see multiple of those, you're like, "Okay, there's multiple pregnancies."

No, if you see them, you just know they're pregnant. Okay. Um because that's just part of where the placenta There's a fetus right in here. I can see

there's a baby right in here. Um, but she's she's so that's her second freshening. Um, so she had twins this past time and one of them

I believe passed before I ever came out and she seemed to go into pre-term labor like nothing was dilated. Nothing was like ready like she was completely normal and then I came out and she was screaming in the middle of the night and trying to have it and I had to help cuz she wasn't like

dilated very good. So I think one of them died and sent her into labor. Yep. That could have very well been

our first time fresher. Okay, there's a good one. There's a heartbeat. There's a heart.

So, I will say too, that is a nice thing about, you know, ultrasounding too. You can see the the heartbeat or something weird.

So, nice spinal cord in there. He got them all. Jumping. Look, that's the skull.

Oh my gosh. It's an alien. That's the skull right there. She got They've all got at least one in there.

Would you from the size of them think he probably got them? There's probably a second one. See, there's a second one right there. So, there's there's two in there for sure on this one.

She knows there's at least two in Bee, which their mama had triplets the first time.

Two in there for sure. So, okay, cool. Nice girl. Is that it? Yeah, honey and bee are twins. Their mom had triplets the first time. Did I say bee that time?

Well, I'm curious. You got my uh Let's try it. I'll go grab it cuz I brought it for him. I didn't know.

Yeah. I mean, I don't think we necessarily need to x-ray him. My thing was I've kept him up this long.

Let's just see what happen. Let's just see before I send him out and he hurts himself.

I agree. All right. So, we're done with this. And you got to And I honestly wanted you to see Mayel's baby.

I wanted to see Mayel's baby. Mayel's baby's I'll tell you what, I almost had forgotten. I was like, "Oh, no. We're over my we're over my 17 days."

But then it actually wasn't that far off. Like a week later. Um it's I named him Pawsum.

That's awesome. Awesome. Pawsome. Awesome. Pawsome. That's awesome. It's a P year. And he I don't know. I I kept trying to call him different names and someone suggested Pawsum and I was like, that's it.

That's it. The last during that storm. shows up. A whole bunch of room in We might have to redo this a few times. You

want to walk around? Just go ahead and actually bring her down here. might be easier to get that wood.

So, we may have to play with her to make sure we get the baby cuz if the ribbon's on one side. Oh, yeah. I guess if they're

the ribbon is on this side that's on us. Bring her over here, you guys. So, that way I can kind of watch this side. And so, the babies are That's why I'm wondering if

you need to go up. We need to do a like you take care of that. That I can get in behind.

Did you do it like that? Do you remember? We did it. But I think let's try it. We going to try it.

They might not. There's one right here. So she sees one in there at least. So that's ribs. So back here's the pelvis.

Okay. Uh that looks like rin to me. I think too they might not be quite. Yes. So the bones have to be guarding. You get calcified for it to that's like in dogs and cats. You can't x-ray them to count until they're 45 days in gestation. So,

do you think I should wait till like 3 months next time? Yeah, that might be. The other thing is is right here. This is all intestines and digest also summating with that to where it's making it not cuz you can't even make out like a skull there.

Mhm. So, you know, we can't really get right. I I I got you. They're getting sprayed. It's kind of a fun game, actually. This is for life.

They don't even know that they've been treated for life. She's going to be the hardest one.

She got it. You got like her full line. So, this is the one I was saying is so tiny. Like I said, we've done a fecal check on her. Um,

how old is she? The same age as that other brown one. And so, she's uh July. I mean,

she looks tiny tiny. Yeah, she's she looks pretty good, though. She doesn't look too thin like and she's been very active and it's just I don't know if she was just the run um vitamin and selenium supplementation.

She Yep. She got it. Um they both we we do that when they're little babies. Um perfect.

You think you got her? Just watch your eyeballs. She gives in. Holy cow. I'm so old I can't see. She literally hasn't had any issues. I just She's so tiny. I just wanted to get her looked at while the vets's here.

I was wanting to find like a really good example to show you. She does have a lot of dandruff, which can suggest it. So, here's something really cool about these little guys.

You see all this? This? They grow their own like insulation, their undercoat in the winter and they'll blow this when the weather gets better. But it's incredible how how well they insulate themselves for this cold weather. You know,

she's definitely insulated. She's thick. She uh she doesn't have any problems with weight

seeing it, but there's a lot of it definitely has some dandruff, so it could be an indication that there is

some going on. myself. Yeah. See my girl, but I mean with the little one, you think she was just a runt?

Yeah, I do. Little girl. She looks healthy. She hasn't given me any indication of being not healthy other than being small. Was she supposed to go out?

They're fine. They all got her. They all got her. Yeah. I'm assuming you're going to probably maybe not breed her. I

I've already chocked it up that I wasn't here. Okay. Cool color. She must have really come into her milk too since I've been here cuz he's

he is like way bigger cuz to be honest with you he was as big as the new calf a possum last I think

cuz possum was a lot bigger newborn look was pretty little hey little blue boys right where you are move that stuff out of there this way I didn't give her for you.

Sorry. Wasn't sure where we were going. All right. Now, where the cameraman is, you're going to bring that panel over.

Ready? I'm going to grab this. Bring it. Bring it. Bring it. So, we're using a little ingenuity with

All right. Now, if you'll go up there and go ahead and get the halter on. Okay buddy.

Now, we can put a little halter on him. Luckily, he's more docile than I would say our normal calves are. So, here's what we're going to do.

Have pants on. They're just brown. Let's look at me. Take that and go around that bar. Around that. Just around that bar twice. And then we're just going to slide him over and do his X-ray right here.

Yeah. Okay. Okay. All right. Eight. You put two on that. We need a pacifier, goofball. All right. Just hang on. Hey. Hey. You're going to have to hold it.

Okay. Yeah. Just wrap it twice and then hold it or it'll slide. There you go. Now go around that end. There you go. Beautiful. Perfect. That way I can move this over. We can keep him pinned up against this. There we go. And if you want to tie that off so you don't have to stay right there. Let me X-ray. That'll be fine though.

You think that's Yeah, I think that's fine. And it's Yeah, it's his foot, right? Mhm. Yeah. He's

I mean, and you can see it's pretty symmetrical. It almost looks like there's something bowed out here, but when you touch it, it it doesn't,

but he had that little bit of chuck ice swelling right there. Like actually ice.

Yeah. Yeah. I really think he may have had was trying to get a little bit of a fitis.

Yeah. From just kind of the rough starting. I think we got on it pretty quick. Yeah. No, you were right on it. Which is so much better than having to try to like do

flushes and all that stuff. Once you start doing that, you might clear the infection up, but the joint's never going to be the same.

So, you can go outside. his x-ray. He said, "Close this." You got it. Y All right. Hold it there. You hold that. You got it. Got it. Sorry, I can't tell. Sorry. We forgot to mark the lateral. It's this one though. I can tell where that swelling was.

Yeah. Um, let's go here. And I can put in those digital markers. Well, I know, but I need to be able to know what it is over here. Everything looks pretty dang normal. Not really seeing anything worrisome right now, but uh just like with the horse X-rays, they can get blown up on a screen back at the vets's office, not just in the field. But from right now, he looks really, really good. Am I correct in saying that?

Yeah. Yes. So, I know based on the angle, the bone that's in the front is the outer one because of the angle we took it at would. So, I'm kind of comparing it to the ones we did last time, too,

to where we thought maybe right in here there was something in that growth plate.

So, that's kind of what I'm looking at there. Why is that like it was from earlier today? Oh, come on. Stop doing that. All right, let's do a Did we do Oh, my DP front to back.

Let's do that. D really. That's the angle I wanted. Hey, Katie, look at this. This is where I was worried. There was a little hairline, something in that growth plate, either a ficitis before or actually trying to get a little bit of a naval like a septic joint from naval type of thing. I mean, it definitely looks doesn't look like there's anything major going on right now.

Mhm. You see that little spot right there? It could have been just some calcification from infection from before.

Yeah. I don't recall that being there, but it's exactly at the point of where that

makes sense if he actually had some trauma. Yeah, like if she stepped on him or you know,

but what's cool to me is everything looks settled, healing. There's not active infection or inflammation going on

in day near two weeks probably. And I haven't given him Bamine in probably over two weeks.

Good. Perfect. So, we're just putting him out in this pasture right here. We're not putting him like out back or anything like that. So, I feel like we can still keep an eye on him. To me, that's the money shot, though. So, these are that's a little tiny growth plate.

Yeah. Um, and I know that was kind of an area we looked at. We're like, is that a fracture? Is that just part of the growth plate? But, I mean, I can honestly say whatever was going on was was in that area and it may have been as much soft tissue or joint capsule as anything, but it's it's calcified there. And it I mean, he's he has no lameness, no pathology, so I say he's good to go.

Okay, perfect. Mhm. We're going to kick him out then. That's pretty cool. She would just leave him.

Thank you guys for your patience. I know this is like a and sometimes it's not as simple as like going and doing a horse's name.

We deal we deal with Dr. Matthew who uh you have to have patience with. Okay, good.

He takes forever on everything. Okay. Well, that's good to know cuz for me it's still a learning curve with this, especially doing animals that,

you know, like you said, it's not a horse that's just going to stand there. I have to pet him while I have the chance.

Yeah. Longhorn crossfer. breed here in a couple years. We can do it. Look at his little teepeees.

They're mostly white with like red faces and red speckles on their body. Oh, he had pretty babies with them.

Yeah, that'd be pretty cool. That's okay. Look at their little name plates. We got them new halters.

Pink isn't my favorite, but it's their favorite. So, I like pink. Goofy. I don't love it. Dolly. Hi, baby girl.

It's Dilly Dally Dolly. She always dillydallys. Your old daddy. Where' it go? She's not your daddy anymore.

Now dollies. We need to put some a different uh a new hole in. It's still a little big on her.

All right, girlfriends. Time to go. She made it outside. She's now done. Blanch, lead the charge.

Me and Dolly have to do it. We lost our momentum. If you think Dilly Dally Dolly's going first

tint me and Dolly GOING OUT THERE you come on. There we go. There we go. Come on.

Come on, miss girl. Let's show them what this is all about. It's a race. We should have bet. We should have bet.

So, Lindsay, if you need help, I'm You just pull her tail. Pull her tail. Okay.

Blanch is Oh, dang. Dolly. Dolly, remember. Dolly, no. Blanch is passing us. Dolly, no.

Come on. Lead the charge. No. Don't stop on me now. still back there with Dorothy.

Come on, Dolly. Remember your training. Okay, we're back in forward motion. Beating me.

Dolly and Blanch. They're both about the same speed, but we're a little ahead right now.

There she comes in third. Old Dot and Rachel. Come on. We're going to beat you.

Be careful. She will kick you. I know. I keep forgetting about that. Come on. Is a big kicker.

Hey, Jonathan, you want to make a dollar? No, you can't have help. Do not help her. She's not the one that says that. You didn't say that at all. And he was

She's not the one that does things FOR YOU. COME ON. NO. OH, NO. NO. We're being passed. How did that happen? Freaking dot.

How are we in last, Dolly? Let's go. Let's go, Dolly. COME ON, JONATHAN. YOU WANT TO MAKE A DOLLAR? This is a hot bird. Oh, we are neck and neck right now. OH, COME ON, DOLLY. I'm going to

Dolly, LOOSE. Come on. Come on, DOLL. WE GOT THIS. COME ON, DOLL. OH, now you're manhandling your poor animal.

This is so mean. Come on. Come on. Come on. I feel like I'm hurting them. Slow and steady was race doll.

We're going. I don't even mind TO LOSE TO BLANCH. I JUST DON'T WANT to lose the dog. IT'S WHOEVER'S THROUGH THE GATE FIRST. Oh

Oh my god. Rachel lost. Wait, it's actually whoever gets the halter off first. Got it.

You know Lindsay needed this win. Wait, it's actually who's donkey is Lindsay got the halter off first. Lindsay won. Dolly's out. Blanch is out.

Speech. Speech. Um, I would like to thank my family and my friend. Um, not my roommates.

Just just your one. Just my one friend. I'd like to thank my family and my friend.

Yep, that's it. Um, thank you for everything. Thanks for the prayers. Wouldn't be here without you today.

What's up? Okay, look at them exploring. They've got some new scenery. They can go talk to the goaties. We know Blanch wants to kill them, so that'll occupy her brain a little bit. But hope you enjoyed. It's so tiny babies next to like the September babies. Oh, look at Miss Navy. She's a December baby.

Okay, mama, don't leave your babies. I know y'all got to go have a little peck in order established, but keep up with your dang children. We're going to

Oh, he's getting beat up immediately. Look at him next to this other bull cap. Who are you?

That's Oh, that's Norman. He's the one that had the little bent over legs. He got he had to keep up. So I don't have to do that in front of the baby now. Look at that. I can't believe the size difference. I'm just happy to have a bunch of healthy, happy animals. So unfortunately, you know, we didn't get to see how many baby goats we're having. We're going to check on that in another video. We're going to wait a little bit longer for those. Name obviously is super happy to finally be outside. Prima and Pawsum, our two newest calves of the year. I mean, I haven't even gotten to introduce you to them really, but they're all out there playing and romping. We unfortunately have so many trees down and limbs down.

You can see from this ice storm. Oh my gosh, look at them. Look at them. Oh, we have a stampede. I missed it. They were like hopping all around. Pawsum doesn't know what to do with all these big babies. He's the tiniest one.

So, I hope you enjoyed this video. Um, it's just a beautiful day. It's giving us a little bit of a glimpse of spring being like 65 degrees today. We don't have any new FO, but that's got to change soon. So, I hope you enjoyed and stay tuned for more.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "I Put My Vet To The Test! | Vet Day"?

Katie Van Slyke (Host), Dr. Emily (Guest).

What is "I Put My Vet To The Test! | Vet Day" about?

The content focuses on the challenges of caring for a young goat named Moose, who is growing increasingly mischievous and requires medical attention, including treating his skin with baby oil to prevent discomfort. The narrative also hints at ongoing farm activities, such as checking on other animals and handling the unpredictable nature of baby goats.

What is mentioned in this Katie Van Slyke episode?

9 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Dr. Emily, Natea, Kate Blanch, Dolly, Pawsum, Dorothy. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "I Put My Vet To The Test! | Vet Day"?

The episode runs 28 min; the transcript is about 4,566 words in 133 timestamped sections.

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