Just Hobby Farmin'

Daily Chore Chaos with Meatball the Longhorn Steer, hardworking LGDs, goats, cutting horses and high-altitude garden wins. Unfiltered pasture adventures.

[Just Hobby Farmin' @Justhobbyfarmin]

What breed of dog is this? 🐮

​Meet Meatball, the oversized livestock guardian who thinks he runs the hobby farm!

[Just Hobby Farmin' @Justhobbyfarmin]

This is the kind of livestock guardian dog to have on your farm. One that would go to the ends of the earth to defend its family.

[brian mackenzie @brianmackenzie]

A friend has a Kangal in CO. Disappeared for a day and night after coyotes killed one of his regular dogs or cat. He found the Kangal about a mile away (lives on a lot of land) w/ the remnants of an entire coyote pack. Bloody from coyote, and not a concerning wound on him. Slept for a day after that.
A dog that will go all night boogeyman murdering on behalf of its family.

[brian mackenzie @brianmackenzie]

A friend has a Kangal in CO. Disappeared for a day and night after coyotes killed one of his regular dogs or cat. He found the Kangal about a mile away (lives on a lot of land) w/ the remnants of an entire coyote pack. Bloody from coyote, and not a concerning wound on him. Slept for a day after that.
A dog that will go all night boogeyman murdering on behalf of its family.

[Just Hobby Farmin' @Justhobbyfarmin]

@6thGenFloGrown That's a great idea! Do you have to keep them away from certain plants? I'm afraid my chickens would eat my whole garden!

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@Cbvheartland2 Cows do the darndest things! We had one get it's head stuck in the fence.

[Just Hobby Farmin' @Justhobbyfarmin]

@FAFOFarmsTX So sorry for your loss. Some animals are truly special and leave hoof prints on our hearts.

[Just Hobby Farmin' @Justhobbyfarmin]

@NigelBest5 My livestock guardian dogs do a great job protecting our animals. Just last week a bear broke into our neighbor's coop and killed all of their chickens.

[Just Hobby Farmin' @Justhobbyfarmin]

@AlpacaAurelius Steak and Eggs are a staple at our house!

[Just Hobby Farmin' @Justhobbyfarmin]

@44Bridger What a neighborly thing to do 👏 I applaud you!

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@TheRealMadOx What kind of person could fathom this kind of animal torture??!

[Just Hobby Farmin' @Justhobbyfarmin]

@NancyH_60 Ranch life is the best! We love our animals and they love us!

[Just Hobby Farmin' @Justhobbyfarmin]

Teamwork makes the dream work: Raven tracks it down, Duke handles the delivery. The pasture fetch relay team in action. 🐾💨

[Just Hobby Farmin' @Justhobbyfarmin]

Someone has a massive crush. Mozzarella now has a 1,500 lb, lovesick puppy for a shadow. 🐮❤️

[Just Hobby Farmin' @Justhobbyfarmin]

@jkpayoung Is that from a mega bloom or does the plant always make tomatoes like that?

[Just Hobby Farmin' @Justhobbyfarmin]

Golden hour in the squash patch. The trellis is barely surviving the weight of these vines, but we’re making it work. 🌅🌱 How is everyone’s late-summer harvest looking?

[Just Hobby Farmin' @Justhobbyfarmin]

@Localizefoodapp “An engine that makes its own replacement.” Still waiting on John Deere to release that feature. 🤠🐴

[Just Hobby Farmin' @Justhobbyfarmin]

@cattleguy92 Hard to beat pasture-to-skillet math. That yolk color alone says everything you need to know. 🍳🥩

[Just Hobby Farmin' @Justhobbyfarmin]

The original zero-emission, self-fueling topsoil factory. Hard to beat natural engineering. 🚜🌾

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

An engineering consortium has announced a self-replicating biological converter, and the specification is unreasonable.

- Runs on rainfall and cellulose.
- No electricity, no fuel, no roof.
- Refuels itself, unsupervised, outdoors.
- Builds topsoil as a waste product.
- Manufactures one complete copy of itself per year.
- Powers that copy off its own body for six months.
- Converts inedible fibre into protein and four per cent fat.
- Yields around a hundred secondary products at end of life.
- Operates from Sutherland to the Serengeti without modification.
- Self-repairs minor faults. No service contract.
- Requires no software, and therefore no update.
- Runs in rain, snow and forty degrees of heat.
- Fits through a gate. Reverses badly.
- Terminal value exceeds most of the machines that service it.

Field trials have been running for ten thousand years, on every continent people have managed to walk to, in every climate that has ever been tried, with no recall, no rollback and no version two.

Emissions are cyclical. The carbon in the output came out of the air in front of it that same season.

It is a cow.

There is a government strategy for reducing the number of them.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

An engineering consortium has announced a self-replicating biological converter, and the specification is unreasonable.

- Runs on rainfall and cellulose.
- No electricity, no fuel, no roof.
- Refuels itself, unsupervised, outdoors.
- Builds topsoil as a waste product.
- Manufactures one complete copy of itself per year.
- Powers that copy off its own body for six months.
- Converts inedible fibre into protein and four per cent fat.
- Yields around a hundred secondary products at end of life.
- Operates from Sutherland to the Serengeti without modification.
- Self-repairs minor faults. No service contract.
- Requires no software, and therefore no update.
- Runs in rain, snow and forty degrees of heat.
- Fits through a gate. Reverses badly.
- Terminal value exceeds most of the machines that service it.

Field trials have been running for ten thousand years, on every continent people have managed to walk to, in every climate that has ever been tried, with no recall, no rollback and no version two.

Emissions are cyclical. The carbon in the output came out of the air in front of it that same season.

It is a cow.

There is a government strategy for reducing the number of them.

[Just Hobby Farmin' @Justhobbyfarmin]

@SamaHoole The original zero-emission, self-fueling topsoil factory. Hard to beat natural engineering. 🚜🌾

[Just Hobby Farmin' @Justhobbyfarmin]

@NerbasBrosAngus Let me know how this works! My steer Meatball out grew our slick wire fences!