I was shocked, shocked I tell you, to learn this afternoon that the World's Tallest Cow is not a Texan. It's not even an American. It's a Brit. A UK cow named Chili.Chili stands 6 feet 6 inches tall in his bare feet. That is taller than me in my bare feet.
Currently Chili's tall status is not official. The Guinness people are investigating.
Chili weighs over a ton. That is 5,510 8 oz. steaks or 11,020 McDonald's Quarter Pounders. He is a black and white Friesian steer. I'm not all that farm familiar, but I'm fairly certain that a steer has had his gender neutralized, so, I'm thinking that would make Chili no longer a he, I guess 'it' would be more appropriate.
The UK is smaller than Texas. It almost seems some sort of state disgrace for Texas not to have the world's tallest cow.
Currently the largest cow on record is American. A Holstein-Durham named Mount Katahdin. That cow stood 6 feet 2 inches with a girth of 13 feet. I'm not sure what a girth is. Mount Katahdin died in 1923. Seems odd that in all those years, til now, no cow has grown taller than Mount Katahdin.
Surely, somewhere in Texas there must be a cow taller than 6 feet 6 inches. Let the search begin.
UPDATE: A Texan has now claimed to have discovered the Tallest Cow in the World.
