Woman's 2,500lb Pet Cow Shocks Internet: 'Not Being Raised for Beef' - Newsweek

A immense 2,500-pound steer has near the net open-mouthed aft its proprietor shared pictures of her elephantine favored online.

Cattle husbandman Chrissy Chin lives successful British Columbia, Canada, and has a precise peculiar narration with Ricky the steer.

"Ricky is simply a pet," Chin told Newsweek. "He is not being raised for beef—he is axenic pet."

Chrissy Chin from British Columbia, Canada lasting atop her 2500lbs favored steer named Ricky. Chrissy Chin

On the family ranch, Chin and her parents support 4 cattle arsenic pets and a herd of achromatic and reddish Angus breeding cattle. Despite acquisition with rearing cattle, cipher was expecting Ricky to turn to specified a size.

"When I kept him astir 8 years ago, I ne'er imagined he'd turn to this awesome size," said Chin. "He shocks adjacent cattle farmers erstwhile they travel over."

A steer, besides called a bullock, is simply a young, neutered antheral cattle. Primarily raised for beef, aft astir twelvemonth 2 oregon three, they turn into an ox.

Castrated males are much docile, and their mean size and value depends heavy connected breed, but mostly ranges betwixt 1,000 and 3,000 pounds—putting Ricky connected the apical end.

Chrissy Chin and a young Ricky, left, and a representation of Chin and the 2500lbs steer recently, right. Chrissy Chin

"You should saddle him and thrust the plains," joked 1 commenter connected Reddit, portion different said: "That is the coolest picture."

A large portion of the family, Chin says that Ricky has a property of his own. "Ricky is precise sweet," she said. "He loves a bully cuddle. I could walk hours conscionable hugging him oregon laying connected his backmost successful the field."

"He loves to moo astatine the neighbors erstwhile they locomotion by, oregon anyone that pulls up to our gate," she added. "It besides doesn't substance what cows we enactment successful the tract with Ricky, aft a week with him they are ace friendly."

"That weighs much than my car," said 1 amazed commenter connected Reddit.

Another delighted spectator wrote: "His look looks similar helium has a cute small grin oregon smirk. He looks truthful satisfied."

While Ricky hasn't been weighed successful a fewer years, determination is simply a just presumption that helium weighs astatine slightest 2,500 pounds arsenic the ranch's hydraulic assistance that tin measurement up to 2,500 pounds tin nary longer assistance him.

Another commenter shared a akin communicative and said: "I person a vessel calf that's present 1,200 pounds. He loves my family, and successful particular, helium loves to play with my sons and I. When helium got to astir 600 pounds helium started to get truly unsafe arsenic helium has nary thought however overmuch bigger helium is than us. He'll person to spell to a processor soon arsenic he's excessively ample and unsafe to support arsenic a pet."

Pleased with Ricky's popularity online, Chin said that she loves showing disconnected her animals: "I emotion sharing my workplace beingness with Reddit," she said. "I similar to spot however immoderate radical spot that they are loving creatures that bash person imaginable to beryllium affectionate similar a pet. Makes maine grin to cognize radical person heard Ricky's story."