Gather Together Homestead

07/14/2025

This is Iris and she is a special girl looking to fill someone else's milk pail.

Iris is a Spring 2023 baby girl, born to Henna and Jedi. Pure Nigerian Dwarf, but unregisted.
Henna has some really nice milking genetics and a milk star and she passed along a very easy to milk udder to her daughter. This is my second time milking Iris. She kidded twin buckings in 2024 and kidding April 10th, 2025 with buck/doe twins. Perfect births.

For those that love colors: she is a super flashy buckskin (recessive black) girl with blue eyes. Honestly, she is by far the flashiest goat I own.

Reason for moving her along: She doesn't like our Livestock Guardian Dog. No one has been hurt, but the two of them dance around each other causing stress for them and stress in the herd. She's a bit of a herd queen and likes to be in the top of the ranking. Here, she only listens to her mama and her sire XD Spoiled girl. That mixed with our homestead switching to registered stock, unfortunately she made the cut this year.

Currently, Iris is being milked once a day and giving us a little over a quart. When milking twice a day, she can produce close to a half gallon. I'm not desperate to move so we will be looking for the right family to take this girl in.

07/11/2025

Finally got the mineral buffet up and going! I'm excited to see how it changes the health of our herd.

06/26/2025

If you are looking for a vet, this is who we use for our livestock. I have yet to have a bad experience. Calling is the #1 way to contact them.

🐴 Exciting News for Ridge Haven Equine🐴
We’re excited to announce some big updates here at Ridge Haven Equine including limited expanded services and the arrival of a new veterinarian on our team!

💼 Expanded Services
In addition to our current services, we are now offering limited general practice services for pigs, chickens, geese, ducks, turkeys, emus, guinea pigs, rabbits, dogs, and cats. Please call the clinic for more information on the limited services offered for these species.
Emergency services for these species are at the discretion of the doctor on call. Emergency services for dogs and cats are not provided at Ridge Haven Equine.

🐎 Welcome Dr. Ashlyn Southern!
We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Ashlyn Southern to the team! Dr. Southern brings a wonderful passion for equine medicine as well as a variety of other species. She has already made a great impression on clients and horses alike. She’s excited to meet our clients and is accepting new patients and appointments now.

📅 Book an appointment or learn more about our services by calling us at (803) 685-6248 or (803) 685-6249.

Thank you for trusting us with your animals — we look forward to serving you with limited expanded services and expert veterinary support!

05/19/2025

"Have goats" they said.
"It will be fun" they said.

At the vet with Roku cause he decided to be a goat and get into a fight with a branch. He lost.

05/11/2025

Baby bunnies are starting to open their eyes 😍 It's been a while since we had a successful bunny litter and I am so excited about these babies!

05/10/2025

New baby. I'm in love.

Went to the livestock exchange at Daniels Feed & Seed to sell some baby goaties and came home with an unplanned addition, but how could I say no to this face? Meet Neville, the newest addition to our kitty collection.

05/09/2025

Look at these precious babies 😍 Need a livestock guardian? We will have several available soon. These babies are almost a month th old and their parents are fantastic with our goats and chickens. Would love to see these babies grow up to live their life to the fullest on other farms. We a re retaining 3 for our pack.

04/29/2025

Baby Goat Season is at an end. Here's a sneak peak of what is seeking new pastures. If you wish to add four hooves of more to your homestead, send us a message.

For all of them: All are trained to a bottle and still require milk. If you are not available to bottle feed, reach out at the beginning of June to see if any are still available. Details are on each image.

All babies are already disbudded.

04/23/2025

All disbuddings are done! My least favorite part of kidding season, but made so much easier with this new disbudding box! I love it@

This year we had 12 live babies.
We are retaining four.
That means we have eight seeking new pastures!

Two of our available doelings are already claimed, but we still have two doelings available and four bucklings. If you are looking for a hooved friend, reach out to get more information on our available bottle babies.

04/10/2025

Last two baby goats if the season!

Dam: Iris
Sire: Waymaker

The little buckskin with brown eyes is a doeling.
The cou clair with blue eyes is a buckling.

Both will seek new pastures in time ♡

04/06/2025

Henna had the most stunning triplets a couple days ago! Two does and a buck. Keeping all three!!

Meet Roku, Azula and TyLee

04/06/2025

Doe twins born today!

Dam is my mini lamancha, Gypsy
Sire is Waymaker, my Nigerian Dwarf buck

Both will be available to new pastures ♡