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They had a big one . . .

burnt

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At the local stockyards this past week, there was a big ox sold. I did not see him, but will likely get the chance since the owner bought him and his new home is at the yards.

I am told he looks like a Holstein, has no horns, is about 9 years old and weighed in at 3000 lbs. The ringman said that the old boy stood about a foot higher than his (the ringman's) head.

He came in from the West with a load of stockers. Anybody from the Vermillion area who might recognize him?
 

Trinity man

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burnt said:
At the local stockyards this past week, there was a big ox sold. I did not see him, but will likely get the chance since the owner bought him and his new home is at the yards.

I am told he looks like a Holstein, has no horns, is about 9 years old and weighed in at 3000 lbs. The ringman said that the old boy stood about a foot higher than his (the ringman's) head.

He came in from the West with a load of stockers. Anybody from the Vermillion area who might recognize him?

Wow that is a big boy. :shock: I think the biggest bull I have ever seen at the sale barns was 2500 lbs. They just don't get that big down here.
 

Silver

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Many years ago we had a bull that made 3000 lbs. He worked just fine, and we used him until he expended his usefulness.
 

PureCountry

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Saw an old Hereford bull in Provost a month ago that pushed the scale down for 3000 and change. Biggest bull I ever saw live was an Angus bull my folks sold to Scotland. Weighed 2800 when he left Canada, and after 1 year of being on a Scottish ration, and having Border Collie's bring the cycling cows to his pen, he weighed in for the Royal Show in England @ 3417lbs. He was 65" at the hip, and fat as a tick. Most pampered bull I've ever seen, and after growing up in our river hills, I'm sure he loved every minute of it. :wink:
 

Grassfarmer

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Burnt, don't know about Vermilion but that sounds very like a steer that was living out at Rocky Mountain House. He was featured in a few of the local papers, age and weight are about right. I think the news item a year or two ago was that the smallholder who had reared and kept was selling him to someone on a hobby farm at Red Deer - maybe he got relocated. Sounds like the kind of thing you would de-stock in a drought - imagine how much it would eat :shock: :shock:
 

burnt

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Well where ever he came from, it doesn't sound like it's the end of the road for him yet. He will likely be someone's mascot here in Southern Ontario.

A couple of now-deceased old farmers up the road from us raised a pair of Shorthorn cross oxen to a ripe old age. Their horns got so wide that those steers learned to turn their their heads sideways to fit through the barn door which was about 4' wide. They were trained to pull and were as gentle as lambs.
 

Faster horses

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Baker, Mt. is known for the worlds largest steer.
Here's a link for anyone interested. They say he weighed
3980 lbs.

Didn't mean to steal your thunder, burnt. Don't know why I
didn't post this earlier!!!

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/pet/steermontana.html
 

HAY MAKER

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Faster horses said:
Baker, Mt. is known for the worlds largest steer.
Here's a link for anyone interested. They say he weighed
3980 lbs.

Didn't mean to steal your thunder, burnt
. Don't know why I
didn't post this earlier!!!

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/pet/steermontana.html

AWWW malarkey you are always tryin to steal some thunder :D :D
good luck
 

Silver

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HAY MAKER said:
Faster horses said:
Baker, Mt. is known for the worlds largest steer.
Here's a link for anyone interested. They say he weighed
3980 lbs.

Didn't mean to steal your thunder, burnt
. Don't know why I
didn't post this earlier!!!

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/pet/steermontana.html

AWWW malarkey you are always tryin to steal some thunder :D :D
good luck

Actually, Old Ben from Indiana was larger yet at 4,500 lbs
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Was_Steer_Montana_the_world's_largest_steer
 

Faster horses

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shhhhhhhhhh Silver. Don't tell anyone in Baker.

(At the time Steer Montana was alive, he was then the world's largest steer. Was he the world's largest steer ever recorded? NO. That record belongs to Kokomo, Indiana's Old Ben grew to a bigger size and weight (6'4" tall, and more than 4,500 lbs.)
 

Silver

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I was at the PNE (Pacific National Exhibition) in Vancouver about 25 years ago and they had a huge Chianina steer there. The way I remember it he was about 15 yrs old and around 4,200 lbs. He was a very impressive looking beast. The wonderful (?) thing about steers is that they never quit growing, so if you keep one around they can get pretty sizeable.
 

burnt

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I did not know that. Boy when they get that big you wanna hope they have a quiet nature cuz they could do some serious damage!!
 

OldDog/NewTricks

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Thought I'd never forget the Barkers Tape from across the Path to our Camp Trailer - 14 Hours a day for 11 Days

"BIG BEN - 4500lbs - WHATA PILE OF HAMBURGER HE WOULD MAKE
BUT I CAN ASURE YOU WHEN HE DIES HE WILL NOT GO TO HAMBURGER.
WE'LL HAVE HIM STUFFED AND ....

Walked around repeating that 24/7 for days
 

Denny

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OldDog/NewTricks said:
Thought I'd never forget the Barkers Tape from across the Path to our Camp Trailer - 14 Hours a day for 11 Days

"BIG BEN - 4500lbs - WHATA PILE OF HAMBURGER HE WOULD MAKE
BUT I CAN ASURE YOU WHEN HE DIES HE WILL NOT GO TO HAMBURGER.
WE'LL HAVE HIM STUFFED AND ....

Walked around repeating that 24/7 for days

What exactly are you talking about you've got me lost in translation.
 

Faster horses

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He did me too, Denny. But here's what I figured out.
OD/NT must have been at a fair or rodeo where they exhibited
the big steer. He was there for 11 days and the folks with the
steer hawked him 14 hours every day; therefore OD/NT repeated
it in his mind 24/7...

How'd I do, OD/NT? :wink: :p :lol:
 
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