This seven-year-old cow, known affectionately to its owners as Knickers (one of the U.K./Australian words for panties), is a Holstein-Friesian, a dairy breed known for being quite tall. But this one seems to have broken the mold.
He was first bought as a “coach” – a steer that leads other cattle – at the age of about 12 months. Steers are castrated males.
“He was always a standout steer from the others, a bit bigger than the rest,” his owner Geoff Pearson said, according to the Epoch Times adding: “some of his mates” were slaughtered at an early age. But Knickers “was still a standout so we thought let’s leave him there, he’s not hurting anyone.”
An enormous steer in Western Australia is making headlines. At 194cm 'Knickers' is the largest in his category in Australia. Story: https://t.co/ZI472MBUU4 #7News pic.twitter.com/MDEMwEbD8R
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Geoff then explained the animal’s comical name: “When he was young, when we first got him, we had a Brahman steer [a breed of cattle] which was a friend of his,” he said. “So his name was bra… so we [had] bra and knickers.”
He added: “We never thought he would turn into a big knickers.”
The Guinness World Records says the world’s tallest living steer is an Italian Chianina ox named Bellino which stands at 6 ft 5 in tall.
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