Knickers, the very fat cow, is not really a cow

Yesterday, the world was introduced to Knickers, a very big Australian cattle. The direction was a sight there in the field, benevolently dominating his smaller peers. (No, Knickers is not a cow.Cows are female cattle that have had a calf, a steer is a castrated male.) The very big boy is a Holstein Friesian, a breed native to northern Holland. and northern Germany that man has been breeding for milk production over the last 2,000 years. He lives on the property of cattle rancher Geoff Pearson in Western Australia.

according to The GuardianKnickers has a height of 6 feet 4 inches, one foot to another – which means it is only three inches shorter than a Mewtwo – and weighs about 1.5 tons, or a little more than a Toyota Corolla. Although Knickers' size is certainly its most obvious feature, it's not really the most prominent. "I'm not sure he's a monster, but a big Holstein," Alison Van Eenennaam, a professor in the Animal Science Department at Davis University and an animal genomics researcher, wrote in an e-mail. "We have a stencil in California of 193 cm and the Guinness Book of Records records a Holstein cow of 193 (6 feet 4 inches)." Danniel, the aforementioned Californian master, died this year at the age of eight. . When he was still there, "he would eat 100 pounds of hay and 15 pounds of grain and drink 100 gallons of water a day," Honolulu wrote. Star-Advertiser.

If Danniel and Knickers were able to get so big, it's partly because they were not killed: Knickers is seven years old and, according to the USDA, oxen turned into meat are usually slaughtered before the age of four years. Its current size and weight, Perth now reported, saved from an untimely death. (He would not go through the processing machines.)

Eenennaam also pointed out that there are larger and heavier breeds than Holstein, "like Chianina, which is both the largest and heaviest breed of cattle," she wrote. "Adult bulls are up to 1.8 m (5'11") and steers (castrated males) can grow up to 2 m (6'7 "). It is not unusual for bulls to weigh more than 1,500 kg (3,500 lbs) – we do not usually keep Chianinas in Australia, because the maximum size is not usually optimal from the point of view of the cost of production. That is, they eat a lot more – they are fatter. Eenennaam describes the now famous Knickers photo dominating fellow Wagyu cattle as "a bit like photographing a Great Dane with a group of young black Labradors."

Knickers could be more integrated if he had been photographed with a herd of gaurs, wild cattle from India whose size regularly reaches about 6 feet in the shoulder. He could also have managed in old Europe, where giant cattle called aurochs roamed the land.

According to the Guinness World Book of Records, the highest flying living is a Chianina, named Bellino, which measures about 6 feet 7 inches. Although Knickers is only a little smaller, he will live the rest of his life on the 3,000-acre farm, doing his job. He was bought $ 400 to live as a coach among the other cattle, showing them how to live on a farm. As Pearson said, the owner of Knickers The Guardian"It is obvious that he has acquired a certain celebrity, which has somewhat changed his identity. We will have to see what happens with that. "