Biggest cow ever!?

[branguscowgirl]

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Have any of you ever seen a cow get this big?
Why do you think a young, grass fed Brangus cow would get this big? Metabolic problems?
She just kept growing and growing. I called her my pet Hippo.
After your opinions, I will tell you what happened to her........And no, she did not burst!

 

[branguscowgirl]

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Darn, can't seem to make them small enough to fit the page!

 

[piedmontese]

About a yr ago I seen a 4 yr old simangus at the sale barn that was 2250.

 

[branguscowgirl]

I think that this cow was heavier than the 2,500 bulls that I have seen, for sure! Wish I would have weighed her.

 

[Black and Good]

My guess would be she's Baron (Freemartin). B&G

 

[ANAZAZI]

My guess would be she's Baron (Freemartin). B&G

She might be barren for one reason or another, but freemartins tend to not have lots of muscle, and this animal has good hind muscle.

 

[branguscowgirl]

B&G, good guess. But she has had a few calves.

 

[3waycross]

Didn't the sale barn give you a weight on the sale bill. How old is she in the pictures?

 

[branguscowgirl]

Didn't the sale barn give you a weight on the sale bill. How old is she in the pictures?

I did not take her to the sale barn. She died on the place. She was about 10 in the pic.

 

[Lucky_P]

Looks not unlike the photos of many other fat ol' donor cows that are repeatedly flushed to produce embryos, and not producing/raising natural calves of their own.
I don't know how much is due to the influence of the hormones used to superovulate 'em, and how much is just due to the fact that they're on a high plane of nutrition - and not taxed by producing and feeding their own calf. Probably mostly the latter.

 

[dun]

 

[branguscowgirl]

Thanks Dun! Gotta get that BIG rear in the pic!Lol

No, she was not super ovulated......

 

[branguscowgirl]

This was the cow that I posted about last year, when I first wrote to the forum for help. Obviously, I could not get her bred the last few years. She preg checked ok, then lost or absorbed it. Now I know most of you would have culled her long before! But she was a pet, and one of my best bred girls, so for me, she wasn't going anywhere!
She started acting sore footed or stiff in the back legs. I brought her in, and she went down. I gave her ATB's, had the vet out and he gave her more ATB's and Dex.. He drew blood. Nothing too bad, but some elevated Leukocytes. Thyroid was good, :roll: . He also had preg checked her to make sure she did not have a dead calf or something. (We had thought she was bred.) Anyway, after preg checking, she bleed out everywhere! She was in liver failure..... The vet consulted with a couple other vets, and because of the type of paralysis she eventually had, they felt that it was a Spinal Abscess. According to him, it is common for a bacteria from the gut to migrate and abscess there. I don't know, still sort of a mystery to me as to why she kept getting larger and larger! :roll:
Those of you that responded have some really good points. Thank you!

 

[Curtis36]

That is one big butt! Hoolllyy COW!

 

[Taurus]

I've seen some huge cows but not that HUGE! holy cow! Biggest one I saw was a beefalo cow.

 

[highgrit]

Missed one heck of a payday in my book. If you wait long enough they will all die.

 

[raykour]

could she have had some sort of genetics for double muscling....like some of the belgian blue cattle do?

 

[branguscowgirl]

could she have had some sort of genetics for double muscling....like some of the belgian blue cattle do?

That's a really good question! Never thought of that.....I will ask my vet about it in Brangus.
Thanks

 

[branguscowgirl]

Missed one heck of a payday in my book. If you wait long enough they will all die.

Probably, but finding out what was wrong with her was more important to me.

 

[3waycross]

could she have had some sort of genetics for double muscling....like some of the belgian blue cattle do?

That's a really good question! Never thought of that.....I will ask my vet about it in Brangus.
Thanks

naw she just had a big fat ass