A Load Of Bull
Well, okay, properly it should be 'a load of steer' but that doesn't sound right. The Telegraph is reporting on a very, very large steer in Britain. He already weighs 3,000 pounds and isn't even close to being full grown.
A six-year-old Charolais bullock called The Field Marshall is tipped to become the biggest in the country over the next 12 months.
He already weighs 3,000lbs and is set to pile on another 650lbs in the next year alone.
That will take him past the current record-holder, his former stablemate The Colonel. He stood 6ft 5ins tall and weighed 3,500lbs.
The Field Marshall will not be fully grown until he is eight and is still the bullock equivalent of a late teenager. But he is already heavier than a Mini Cooper car, which weighs 2,458lbs, and weighs nearly as much as a BMW 3 series (3,053lbs). The white steer was raised by farmer Arthur Duckett, 78, who bought him two years ago and decided to keep him as a pet.
Apparently, Duckett has a thing for gigantic cattle kept as pets. He's got another one as well. Although that one is a paltry 5ft 6in tall. A veritable miniature. (That is one big animal, they have a picture.)
By martian, Wednesday, 5 December , 2007 @ 2:43 pm
That’s a lotta bull!
By NortonPete, Wednesday, 5 December , 2007 @ 3:56 pm
3000 lbs is only 176 stones
By Sylvia, Friday, 7 December , 2007 @ 1:07 pm
I’ve known some big Charolais, but that guy is something else! They do tend to be sweethearts, especially if cut when young.