A gargantuan cow called “ knee breeches ” has become a chip of a mavin in Australia , after being so big it could n’t be sent to an abattoir .
knickerbockers weighs an impressive 1,400 kg ( 3,100 pounds ) and stands 1.94 beat ( 6.4 base ) marvelous . He is unofficially thought to be the biggest steer ever in Australia . bank bill , a confidential information is not technically a cow , but who are we to judge .
Owner Geoff Pearson , who owns a farm near Perth in Western Australia , allege that when he tried to put the cow up for auction , no one was capable to cope with its sizing .
“ It was too intemperate . I would n’t be capable to put it through a processing facility , ” he toldPerth Now . “ So I cerebrate it will just live happily ever after . ”
Knickers was originally corrupt as a “ jitney ” , which is a shorten male cow that leads other cattle . He is a Holstein Friesian strain , which is unlike from the other cattle he is project with in the rather funny photos , but he ’s still larger than ordinary .
As for the name , Pearson toldBBC Newsthat came from another cow in his herd being a Brahman steer . " So his name was Bra … so we [ had ] bandeau and knickers , ” he suppose .
This is not the tallest cow ever recorded , though . agree to theGuinness World Records , the tall steer is an Italian wild ox called Bellino , which quantify 2.027 time ( 6.65 metrical unit ) improbable .
But that has n’t stopped knickerbockers from becoming an overnight famous person . “ It ’s out of ascendancy , ” Pearson toldThe Guardian . “ I did n’t expect it to go as far as it has . I ’ve been called every 10 minutes since four o’clock this dawn . ”
And people on Twitter have been equally astonished , marveling at this mega cow .
As for why the steer is so big , no one is quite trusted . One reason , though , is that steers are normally sold to processing plants at the years of two or three , but Knickers has been allowed to grow to the age of seven .
Being too large to be taken by meat C.P.U. , breeches will live out his days along with 4,000 Bos taurus on Pearson ’s farm . And who cognize what the future could hold for this fantastic beast .
