The Toy Barn Homestead

08/12/2025

Posting for a friend, based in Orange. Highly Motivated to 💰
💲 are negotiable. These are some super goats and the right home is most important

*PENDING*Goat 1: Registered purebred Nubian doe. Gorgeous and gregarious. Milk stand trained, produced 8.2 lbs on her first milk test. Easy to hand milk, currently dry. https://genetics.adga.org/GoatDetail.aspx?RegNumber=N002299055

Goat 2: Registered purebred Nubian doe. Very sweet and somewhat shy. First freshener, milk stand trained, great for hand milking. Currently in milk. Twin to goat 3, preference given to someone who wants both. https://genetics.adga.org/GoatDetail.aspx?RegNumber=N002444161

Goat 3: Registered purebred Nubian doe. Friendly and easy going. First freshener, milk stand trained, good producer. Currently in milk. Twin to goat 2, preference given to someone who wants both. https://genetics.adga.org/GoatDetail.aspx?RegNumber=N002444160

Goat 4: Registered purebred Nubian doe. First freshener, milk stand trained, great on the milk stand and easy to hand milk. Currently in milk, but only on one side—she has a singleton and dried up on one side. https://genetics.adga.org/GoatDetail.aspx?RegNumber=N002353761

*SOLD*Goat 5: Registrable American Nubian doeling. Born 3-17-2025. Shy and curious, brown with white spot on shoulder.

Goat 6: Registrable American Nubian doeling. Born 5-10-2025 Friendly with striking black coloring.

Goat 7: Registered American Nubian buckling. Born 5-2-2025. His Dam (Never Fail Mocha Frappe https://neverfailacres.weebly.com/frappe.html) has a great udder and teat placement, and her pictures are available at the above link. We were so excited to use him this fall and see what his genetics would do in our herd, now he can offer you a great opportunity to add strong bloodlines to your own. https://genetics.adga.org/GoatDetail.aspx?RegNumber=N002451264

Goat 8: Registrable American Nubian wether, companion to the buckling. Born 3-17-2025. Price negotiable if he goes with the buckling or his twin sister (goat 5).

08/07/2025

For an early anniversary present I got Tyler a tattoo of Mack’s nose print. We talk about him often and wonder about what he could of become. We never planned on replacing Mack, but when Rex was born, it was hard to believe that out of all the times we’ve had puppies, and always been in an abundance of boys, this time around Rex was the only boy, along with the fact during my own labor with Ellie, I looked at the window to see Raina and Mufasa getting ready to breed, not 2 days after Mack’s passing. I truly believe a piece of Mack came back to us in Rex, and although it took some convincing for Tyler we now have Rex. He definitely does not replace Mack one bit, he reminds us of him everyday

06/05/2025

🐐 We’ve got too much milk! 🥛

So we’re offering a herd share! This basically means; you purchase a “share” in our dairy herd, that share fee covers the cost of you 1/2gallon milk jars (4 of them! Two that get cleaned whilst you have the other two!) then once a week you pay boarding, feeding and caring for the portion of the herd that you own, and you then get the right to what the herd produces (1 gallon of milk per week - half gallons are also available) we set a day and time in the week that you’re available to pick up your milk, and hey presto! You got goat milk!

If this sounds like something youd be interested in drop me a message and we can iron out the finer details

*in Virginia it is illegal to sell raw goats milk for human consumption so if you wish to purchase milk, this is the only way.

04/18/2025

03/12/2025

3 weeks of our Ellie girl. This whole second kid thing is crazy! 💕🪻

01/18/2025

Our Love Spell Goat Milk Soap is limited in stock! So make sure you grab a bar while you can!

12/26/2024

This year we don’t pack our bags for “destination Christmas” we stayed at home and I’ve loved every minute of it. This has really been the first year Waylon’s understood what Christmas is all about and it’s been so magical for him, from finding Santa’s boot prints and half eaten cookie, to seeing his old toys no longer under the tree and new ones in place of. Christmas dinner at home and my two constructions workers “working on stuff” to end the night. This time next year we’ll have a 3 year old and an almost one year old and I’m not okay with that

12/12/2024

33 weeks and 4 days. - highly suggest not getting your wisdom teeth pulled in the third trimester, but this nugget is thriving and growing I have a yellow bathroom now 👍

07/08/2024

Well it’s about time I made the effort to actually post these guys for sale!

GP x Karakachan
Looking for new farms as of July 31st
We kept one of these guys from our last litter and I cannot begin to explain how amazing of a working dog he has been so far, true livestock guardians! Exposed to chicks & chickens, free ranged and in a coop, goats, pigs, cats, children, been living outside since birth, will have their first vaccines, be dewormed and have dewormer go home with them if a f***l is not clean.
Discounts on multiples. Deposit required to save - we have 3 boys and 1 girl

06/16/2024

Thank you all so much for attending the Beginners Soap Making Class today!

I hope everyone had a great time this afternoon and feels more confident in making their own soaps at home. Please feel free to message me with any questions or concerns you may have as you start on your new soap making adventure!

Overview of todays class

Leave soap in the mold for 24-48 hours

Now I know how exciting it will be to break open those molds and take a look at what you've made, but I promise you, waiting will make it that much better! Once you have un-molded your soap you can go ahead and cut it up into bars - typically you can get 3 really good chunky sized bars or 4 average sized bars.

Products that we used in the class

So here is a list of products that we used in the class (just click on the name and it should direct you to an Amazon page

Lye (https://amzn.to/3xj1C1u)
Shea Butter (https://amzn.to/3KItZsW)
Coconut Oil (https://amzn.to/3KKOPbe)
Olive Oil (https://amzn.to/3RuW3nE)
Clays (https://amzn.to/3VoP9BA)
Fragrance Oils (https://www.amazon.com/stores/NaturesOil/page/EADABC6A-3F34-4248-8586-FC04AF353A6F?ref_=ast_bln&store_ref=bl_ast_dp_brandLogo_sto)

As a point of reference I typically use this mold (https://amzn.to/3XvelsR) and get around 10 bars of soap made but here are the molds (https://amzn.to/3xl7nvO) we used today - if you decided you'd like to use the larger molds feel free to reach out and I can help you figure out a recipe size for it.

Copy of the booklet

If you click the link below, scroll to the bottom and you should find the online version of the booklet.

Again! Thank you guys so much for joining me today, and feel free to message me with any feedback positive or not, I've taught several classes now and always trying to find the best flow of things!

Many Thanks
Olivia Lindsay

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06/11/2024

Less than a week away!

Hello all! I'm so excited to say our class is full for this Saturday, and I can't wait to teach you all about how to make soap!

A few bits of housekeeping!

Firstly, I will be sending out an email following this one which will have a link to our Lye Safety Agreement. PLEASE read through this carefully and digitally sign - if you're having difficulties signing I will have paper copies with me on Saturday but even still please read through this agreement!

Secondly, don't wear anything nice! - this is the only part that sucks about making soap outside - ideally you need to have as much of your skin covered as possible. Lye is a caustic substance and can burn your skin. You will have to wear gloves during the soap making process so if you have an allergy to latex please bring your own gloves - I can't guarantee I will have latex free gloves.

Thirdly, eye protection. Don't go all out and get yourself a fancy pair of goggles, if you already wear glasses and feel comfortable enough using those that is fine - please avoid wearing sunglasses, and this could make it a little more difficult to see what you're doing. But you should be able to pick up a cheap pair of safety glasses from your local hardware store for a couple bucks.

Class will start at 12pm. Please arrive a little earlier if you didn't get chance to fill out the lye safety agreement online. I will start the class off with a demo so everyone has a bit of an idea on what we're doing sometime class can go on until 2pm other times we finish earlier and sometime we finish later.

I will also have plenty of our goat milk products for purchase after the class and please feel free to reach out with any questions you may have before class.

If you're running late or have an emergency and cannot attend please feel free to text me at 540-859-0226 as of this point I can no longer offer a refund but would be happy to hold a space in another class for you in the future.

Many Thanks
Can't wait to see you all on Saturday!

Olivia Lindsay
The Toy Barn Homestead

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05/20/2024

Some of you may already of heard but we’re drastically reducing our herd! Please feel free to reach out if you are interesting in any or know of someone else that might be