Rigden Ranch

08/22/2024

We're running out of availability for our 2024 season!

If you would like to visit us this season, we recommend that you book soon! ❤️🐪

08/22/2024

It's your last chance to vote for Rigden Ranch for Best Of Racine!

We are in 2 categories! 🐪
- Best Family Fun
- Best Place to Take Kids

Click the link to vote! https://journaltimes.com/exclusive/readerschoice/ballot-2024/

Thank you to those who support Rigden Ranch!

08/15/2024

SPOOKY SEASON IS UPON US! 🎃

Newton was playing with his pumpkin trying to figure out how to open it!

08/14/2024

Have you voted for Rigden Ranch yet?

There's 7 day left to vote for Best of Racine! You can vote once per day!

We are running for Best Family Fun and Best Place to take kids, both of which are found underneath Best Sports & Entertainment!

Thank you for everyone voting for us!

https://journaltimes.com/exclusive/readerschoice/ballot-2024/

08/06/2024

Another reminder of how you can help vote for us for Best Of Racine! 🐪

https://journaltimes.com/exclusive/readerschoice/ballot-2024/

08/02/2024

Hello again our animal loving friends!

We have good news! WE MADE IT TO THE VOTING ROUND OF BEST OF RACINE!

We are under best of sports/entertainment and then in the categories shown below. You guys can vote in both categories ONCE A DAY! ❤️

We're so extremely grateful for all of you and how well this season is treating us

Thank you.

https://journaltimes.com/exclusive/readerschoice/ballot-2024/

07/22/2024

Staying cool on these hot days 🐢

06/26/2024

Hello again!

We're once again asking you to help us with a nomination for Best of Racine! No matter where you're from, you can nominate!

Everyone that comments on this post after they nominate us, we'll reply with a cute picture of an animal! ❤️

https://journaltimes.com/exclusive/readerschoice/ballot-2024/?enhanced-listing=3b712647-0361-3f48-3f3f-3f6d3f3d263f

06/24/2024

OUR ANIMAL LOVING FRIENDS, WE NEED YOUR HELP! 🐫🐪

Tis the season for Best of Racine, and this year, WE'RE PARTICIPATING!

If anyone would be so kind to click this link and nominate us, we'd be so incredibly grateful!

Thank you for all that you do ❤️

https://journaltimes.com/exclusive/readerschoice/ballot-2024/?enhanced-listing=3b712647-0361-3f48-3f3f-3f6d3f3d263f

06/22/2024

It's world camel day! 🌍🐪🐫

We hope everyone takes a moment today to admire these giant, beautiful, creatures!

(You'd think it would be on a Wednesday)

06/21/2024

We hope to see you for our 2024 season at Rigden Ranch!

06/03/2024

At Rigden Ranch, one of the most important things to us is history.

Everyone that comes to visit gets to learn about the 40+ years of this property, and the importance of what it created. Through the decades, knowledge has been passed down multiple generations so that we are able to keep sharing these beautiful creatures with you guys.

The elephant in this photograph is named Ruth, and it was taken in 1985. Ruth now lives at the Milwaukee County Zoo.

Our animals may be smaller now, but the experience is large.

This is a passion. Thank you for sharing our love of animals.

05/24/2024

This is Jackie (right) and Kelso (left).

Their favorite thing to eat is apples.
Their favorite activity is eating the apples.

They said that you should come feed them apples.

Book a tour today on our website rigdenranch.com!

05/01/2024

We're exactly 1 week from opening for the season!

With that being said we'd like to give away one free tour for a group of up to 6 people.

All you have to do is like, comment, and share this post!

We'll select a winner in a week 🐪♥️

04/07/2024

This morning Newton and Dufus have the pleasure of eating their breakfast in Florida weather as we prepare for the Daytona Beach Jewish Heritage Festival.

03/15/2024

We are now accepting reservations for the upcoming season at https://www.rigdenranch.com/

We can't wait to see both new and familiar faces through 2024!

03/03/2024

It's with the heaviest heart that I'm writing this post to say that our beautiful resident Rex has unexpectedly passed away.

Over the last year Rex quickly became a staple. Not only at the ranch, but in the community. Rex went almost everywhere with me, he put smiles on hundreds of peoples faces, and he was able to give people a new form of education, which is what the ranch is all about. Teaching people about these animals and showing them that we can live in harmony is the most important thing to us.

Rex had acquired cold-like symptoms, what we thought to be a possible respiratory infection, We treated the situation as such. Very quickly his symptoms progressed and turned into seizures, and one thing led to another. As detrimental as it is to all of us, we're relieved that our baby boy isn't suffering. Tests have been run with Rex, not only for our knowledge, but for the safety of the rest of our furry family at the ranch. Unfortunately nothing has yet to be found. We're hoping that our veterinarians do find an answer for us, but as of now it looks that Rex had something that was untreatable, and unrecognizable. We're hoping at the very least to be able to educate ourselves, our friends, and others within the animal community. No matter how hard something is, the situation can be used to learn a thing or two.

Roger, our 2 year old red kangaroo, absolutely loved Rex. Rex was about a month away from going to hang out with Roger permanently. Kangaroos typically live in their pouch for about a year before heading to the big world. We will be taking this time to grieve, and try to better analyze the situation, however we will look for another friend for Roger at some point. There will never be a replacement for Rex, as he had so much personality and he loved us as much as we loved him. However, We believe in the buddy system here. Everybody deserves somebody.

I feel that it's very important that we're transparent with the community, as the community loves these animals like we do. People build bonds with these animals, and come back time and time again to see them, watch them grow, and learn more about them. Every animal that steps foot on this property is a life long commitment, we grow with our animals, And we will continue to do so.

Make sure to love your furry family members a little extra, you never know where life is headed.

Thank you for reading, and being involved in Rigden Ranch, it means the world to us. We hope to see you all this coming season ❤️🦘

02/14/2024

Hoppy Valentine's Day from Rex ❤️🦘

01/12/2024

Training snow camels on a winter day ☃️❄️🐪

12/21/2023

We hope everyone gets their favorite stocking stuffer this year! ❤️🎄🦨

12/02/2023

We're missing summer over here.

Happy 1st 🌲❄️

10/07/2023

We're hopping right into fall and getting prepared for new things next season! 🎃🦘

09/30/2023

Our resident Peanut will be at Jerry Smith Pumpkin Farm every weekend until the end of October!

Stop by and say hi, or take a ride! ☺️🐪

09/29/2023

With our first season coming to an end we just wanted to say thank you to everyone that visited us! We've had such wonderful people come visit and enjoy the animals. With the weather changing we have just a few days left, and then we'll be back in May! Our newest resident is a baby joey, he'll look forward to meeting everyone next year! 🥰🦘

Thank you so much for the best first year we could ask for, the response has been far more than we could have wished for!

07/31/2023

We're always finding new friends to play with. The ranch now has a resident troop of lemurs that would love to meet you ❤️

06/14/2023

Check us out at rigdenranch.com to visit our capybara friends 😊

What We Offer Capybara encounter Book Now Camel experiences Book Now Camel Rentals Camel Safari Coming Soon Rigden Ranch Is a Privately Funded semi-exotic animal ranch started in 2021. Having a small collection of animals, we offer guided tours and animal feeding, as well as off-site camel rides. Bo...