What's the largest beef animal have you seen?

I saw a black/baldy steer yesterday that weighed 2800 pounds.

Why?

I don't know what it weighed, but the one who decided I should not be in the catch pen with it looked pretty darned BIG!

I gotta respond to this. Moved some Herefords for a neighbor a few years back. Took five up to the auction, that's all we could fit into the trailer. So, he kept 'Moe' and 'Bubba' for a week because he had a kill date for one at the butcher shop. Went to load them the next week, one for the auction, the other for the freezer. Bubba walked right onto the trailer, and was put in the front compartment. Moe, on the other hand, was in need of a 'wide load' sign. He barely fit into the chute, and refused to go into the trailer. We even tried backing him thru the door, but his ribs expanded out like an anchor after his butt went thru and he wouldn't go any more. We finally turned him around again, and got a prod. Phil hit him with the prod, and nothing. Checked the batteries, and they were corroded. His nephew went for more batteries, we held Moe in the chute, and Phil stood behind him cleaning the contacts with his knife. Nephew comes back with new batteries, Phil starts to reassemble the prod, and discovers he had dropped the cap nut in the manure behind the steer. Here I am holding this animal (whale?) in the chute with a long pole, and Phil's digging in the brown hunting for a brass nut. Wish I had a cameraman for the whole operation. Never did find the nut, and Bubba finally got tired of not being able to back up, and casually hops into the trailer. The next day he got stuck in the chute at the butcher shop. They had to shoot him where he was, and disassemble the fence to get him into the cutting room with a forklift. 2900 pounds, and they took off 650 pounds of fat with the hide. He was almost a pet, and about 6 or 7 years old. Meat probably lasted the family about three years- there was a heck of a lot of it---

My brother had a black Angus bull that went to the sale barn last year. His name was Charlie and he weighed 3000 lbs. He was a monster. He was too big to breed the cows, so he went away. I bought a lot of Charlie's calves. They were very nice and big. I do miss his genetics in those calves compared to the bull my brother has now for breeding.
Kow Farmer

That 650lbs of fat would have made maybe 80 gal.of biodiesel.

how about these freaks????

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmkj5gq1cQU

In Texas terms or the rest of the world?

Father-in-law had a Holstein bull that pushed him down and rolled him around in the barnyard. While he was recovering in the hospital, Mother-in-law made arrangements for him to go away. Took three of us on tractors to corner him in the barnyard and force him onto the stock truck. He wasn"t going to be bothered with three of us on foot with electric prods, and pitchforks. At one point, he took issue with one of the tractors - ever see a MF 85 going backwards while the drive wheels were going forward?

He topped the scale at 2500# - big critter. Was not comfortable doing chores alone with him running loose in the barnyard! Glad to see him go. There"s a good reason for AI, and it has to do with the safety of the farmer.

I found those freaks one day while looking at insemination and cloning practices. Good friend of mine raises Beef Master or some such breed, cross between charloais, bramah and some other cow that is white. I saw the "pumped up freak" you were talking about and thought it was a digital video trick. My friend say's "no the europeans breed their cows for lean stringy meat only, no marbeling or fat of any kind, in any form" It's the Belgian Blue Cow, also known as the "Incredible Hulk Cow" Chck out this link and you will see why http://www.hemmy.net/2007/07/16/belgian-blue-cattle-super-cow-aka-incredible-hulk-cow/

There was a Holstein steer at the fair one year in one of those "get in for a dime" tents. Weighed over 3000 pounds.
I sent an Angus bull a year ago that weighed 2265.

I got a call once to hoof trim a Hereford Steer. The lady said he was a big one. We got him in the chute, but just barely. Two years later, same lady, same steer. There was no way he was going to fit this time. His back was about 4'X 8'. How much did he weight? I am not sure, but the ground shook when he walked.

We owned a few Chianina Bulls. Our biggest was Shadow Topped the scales at 3200 at the super bull contest at the Iowa State Fair. Breeding weight in with the Chi/Angus cows was right at 2800.

Not him but this is the breed

Come on guys.
We all know that Paul Bunyan's Babe the Blue Ox
was the biggest bull ever.
I grew up just 30 miles east of Brainerd MN where he lived for many years.

My dad used to tell a story about the dairyman he worked for as a kid.

Had a Holstein bull that he kept in the barn. Let him out to pasture everyday. My dad was there one morning when the old man was turnin the bull out, and it charged him. The farmer jumped hehind a maple tree in the yard and grabbed the 44" baseball bat he kept there for just such occasions. As the bull came around the tree, he got that big ash bat right across the forehead. Dropped him like a ton of sh!t! The ol bull just kinda laid there on his knees for a few minutes then slowly got up and walked out to the pasture.

'Parently they went through that routine a few times a year.

Ben

Friend had a little herd of Chianinas. HUGE animals. Generally pretty docile, but one ol cow that would just as soon stomp ya as look at ya. Had to borrow a tranqualizer gun from the vet to use on her so I could vaccinate/castrate her calf. She went to the sale that fall.
Friend had a heart attack and died few years back, at about 45 years old. I'd guess his widow sold the cows, can't imagine she and their daughter's taking care of em...

Ben

around 2800 pounds - the family down the road had a daughter that wasn't going to sell her show steer. he died about ten years later as a pet--bloated and huge, I wouldn't want to be the one loading him up onto the meat wagon.

The biggest one that I have seen is stuffed and on display in Kokomo Indiana. "Big Ben" weighed in at about 5000 pounds. You can see pictures on the internet.

I feel safer around a 1000 pound bull than a 2000 pound bull, but is the safety issue the same? I was severly injured by a calf that weighed less than 400. Is my fear of bigger animals justified?
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