Un-bull-ievable! Calf Saved From The Farmer's Shotgun / Towering 6ft 5in, One-Tonne Beast

Daily Mail UK ^ | 08/27/10 | Staff

[BunnySlippers]

Amazingly, the seven-year-old bullock is still growing meaning he could smash through the current British record in a matter of months.

When Shaun, a carpet fitter, saved Trigger he had no idea his new black and white friend would grow up to his magnificent size.

Trigger's enormous weight means he could potentially make 7,665 Big Macs or even 6,137 Burger King Whoppers.

But family pet Trigger lives a life far removed from that of your average livestock.

Instead he enjoys a relaxed lifestyle in a field at Kingswood, Herefordshire, where he eats a daily diet of grass, cattle cake, mineral lick and a packet of apples every week.

[SatinDoll]

Must be the apples.

[GeronL]

calf??

[Red_Devil 232]

Wholly Cow!

[historyrepeatz]

Looks like he’d be capable of world’s biggest cow pie as well.

[bunkerhill7]

This is nothin` but a bunch of bull

[skr]

Amazing!

[txhurl]

WANT ONE.

[piasa]

You’re just eyeing up that Texas sized brisket, aren’t you?

[BunnySlippers]

I am not happy that they imply that Big Macs are inferior to Whoppers. :(

[piasa]

I wonder if the carpet fitter’s ever considered how big an area rug that fellow would make.

[BunnySlippers]

Haha!

That’s the first thing I thought about.

I have a small white chihuahua named Fidel. This fella is much larger. :P

[BigCinBigD]

Well. That puts the question of “wheres the beef” to rest once and for all...

[Berlin_Freeper]

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

Good grief! Is this Photoshopped? It looks pretty real .... Does anyone who really knows cattle have an opinion on the veracity of this?

[BunnySlippers]

Well, it is in a main stream British paper.

[BunnySlippers]

The BBC on the same bullock

Local Attraction

Shaun realised about two years ago (2008) that he may grow quite large: "He was 6ft 3ins (190cm) and the owners of the farm said he was bigger then than anything they'd seen."

Trigger is now a bit of a local attraction: "Lots of people come up to see him, especially local farmers."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/herefordandworcester/hi/people_and_places/nature/newsid_8947000/8947237.stm

[Slyfox]

Hey Trigg, call me sometime!

[American Constitutionalist]

How far do they live from Chernobyl ?
Or ? how do they know that this cow stock was not from those areas affected by Chernobyl ? just wondering.

[BunnySlippers]

Funny thing is, according to the article, he hasn’t beat the British record yet. :)