A regular size cow is considered a large animal

[Value Buy]

Until you see this one.

www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/the-internet-is-obsessed-with-knickers-the-giant-australian-cow/ar-BBQcofG?li=BBnbfcL

[Tennesseer]

One big guy.  

In the slaughter house industry, size does matter.

[Value Buy]

Nov 28, 2018 13:01:58 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

One big guy.  

In the slaughter house industry, size does matter.

It saved his tenderloin
Luckily they did not take him to a local butcher.

[kadee79]

Back years ago...when we lived in Fl., there was a Charolais bull who went wild from the ranch where we kept our horses.  He had a bigger "bump" at his front shoulders than most, but was about 7' tall there.  They "estimated" that he weighed between 3000-5000 lbs. cause no one could get close enough to get a really good guess.  He could jump a normal cattle fence like a deer, I saw him do it several times when we were rounding up the cattle for shots & worming.  He mostly lived in the swamps between Cape Coral & the Gulf coast or would come into the pastures with the cows from time to time, especially if there were cows in heat.  He was easy to spot if he was in the pasture since he was so much bigger than the other cattle, but he could also sense when someone was coming & off he would go!

Forgot to add the link....  www.cattle.com/articles/title/charolais+cattle.aspx

[Value Buy]

This one looks like a Holstein?
He looks out of place with this group....

[kadee79]

Yes, Holstein...most used breed for dairy.  We had several when I was a kid on the dairy farm...but Jersey or Guernsey give richer milk...they just eat more to produce the better milk & more cream. 

[Tennesseer]

I was reading another article about Knickers and it mentioned the Italian Chianina is the largest of the cattle species.

A Chianina:

[weltschmerz]

Nov 28, 2018 12:57:22 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Until you see this one.

www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/the-internet-is-obsessed-with-knickers-the-giant-australian-cow/ar-BBQcofG?li=BBnbfcL

It's not a cow. It's a steer.
He's majestic.

[weltschmerz]

[kadee79]

I'm wondering just how big the other cows in the picture are...some breeds are pretty small...and would make the steer look super huge when photographed together.

[haapai]

Nov 28, 2018 18:33:26 GMT -5 weltschmerz said:

Nov 28, 2018 12:57:22 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Until you see this one.

www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/the-internet-is-obsessed-with-knickers-the-giant-australian-cow/ar-BBQcofG?li=BBnbfcL

It's not a cow. It's a steer.
He's majestic.

Exactly!  Knickers is not a cow.  He is a steer. 

He also seems to be a bit of a cattle-raising accident.  His prowess at moving other cattle around seems to be what kept him off the truck one year, but the folks who made that call had no idea that he would be too big for any slaughterhouse to handle by the next year. 

Lucky for him, not so lucky for the folks that have to feed him. 

I sorta pity the folks who will have to eventually deal with his carcass.  They have a choice between digging a very big hole or disposing of some very tough meat.  I suspect that they'll chose to rev up the backhoe. 

[kadee79]

Finally, they come out with the truth.....the cows he is standing with is a smaller breed and only yearlings, not full grown yet.

Knickers, the 6-foot-4 tall bovine, went viral for his shocking size. Turns out, it’s partly an illusion.

The Washington Post revealed Knickers looks much bigger than he is because he is surrounded by wagyu cattle, a breed that averages only about 4.5 feet tall.

The rest of the cattle in the shot are also only about a year old, while Knickers is 7 years old and fully grown.

“He looks so huge next to those yearlings,” Mike Stura, owner of Skylands Animal Sanctuary in New Jersey, told Inside Edition. “Even a bus, if you park it next to your house it looks huge. If you park it next to a skyscraper, it doesn’t look so huge.”

And despite his moniker, Knickers is not a cow at all.

www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/is-the-big-cow-all-an-illusion-why-knickers-isnt-as-giant-as-he-seems/ar-BBQgEU9?li=BBnbfcL

[Value Buy]

Nov 29, 2018 20:57:22 GMT -5 kadee79 said:

Finally, they come out with the truth.....the cows he is standing with is a smaller breed and only yearlings, not full grown yet.

Knickers, the 6-foot-4 tall bovine, went viral for his shocking size. Turns out, it’s partly an illusion.

The Washington Post revealed Knickers looks much bigger than he is because he is surrounded by wagyu cattle, a breed that averages only about 4.5 feet tall.

The rest of the cattle in the shot are also only about a year old, while Knickers is 7 years old and fully grown.

“He looks so huge next to those yearlings,” Mike Stura, owner of Skylands Animal Sanctuary in New Jersey, told Inside Edition. “Even a bus, if you park it next to your house it looks huge. If you park it next to a skyscraper, it doesn’t look so huge.”

And despite his moniker, Knickers is not a cow at all.

www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/is-the-big-cow-all-an-illusion-why-knickers-isnt-as-giant-as-he-seems/ar-BBQgEU9?li=BBnbfcL

I wondered about the other cattle's size too. When you think about it a six foot steer is not that much out of the ordinary in size. The video in the pasture showed the cattle's stomachs above the grass height so I thought they may have been close to full size, but I was wrong. 

[weltschmerz]

Looks like it turned into a contest.

Dozer the 'gentle giant' from Manitoba has a full inch on Knickers the steer




www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-edition-1.4925497/dozer-the-gentle-giant-from-manitoba-has-a-full-inch-on-knickers-the-steer-1.4925501

[weltschmerz]

www.vice.com/en_ca/article/59vyna/sorry-australia-our-steers-are-bigger

Lol!

[kadee79]

Nov 30, 2018 0:01:18 GMT -5 weltschmerz said:

Looks like it turned into a contest.

Dozer the 'gentle giant' from Manitoba has a full inch on Knickers the steer




www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-edition-1.4925497/dozer-the-gentle-giant-from-manitoba-has-a-full-inch-on-knickers-the-steer-1.4925501

Looks like another Holstein too or at least mostly that breed.
The cows we had when I was a kid (dairy-Holstein) weren't that much smaller either.  I was around 5' tall at the time & had trouble seeing over a couple of them unless I stood on tippy toes.  I never got close enough to our bull to see how tall he was....he was NOT a nice bull...and even chased me across the pasture one time.