BIggest bull in the world

In class today we were talking about the biggest bull in the world. All I can find is a photo of a tall holstein in Brazil. Anyone have any herd bull photos that I can use?

Show Heifer said:

In class today we were talking about the biggest bull in the world. All I can find is a photo of a tall holstein in Brazil. Anyone have any herd bull photos that I can use?

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I don't have any useful pics but it doesn't surprise me that you saw a Holstein referenced.  I was at an AI stud and saw a holstein that was absolutely huge!

I think the white chi's and even some saler's were huge. The Salers bull Kardinal,the white chi Lombard...etc. I saw out at Denver. Also some Ayatollah sons(Shorthorn).

see if you can find a picture of Gus on here

Chi Bull walco Kentucky colonel maybe?Not sure he was the largest bull.

This isn't the biggest bull in the world, but he is the biggest bull I ever raised. He is HC Merger 93M. He is an ET son of HS Rodeo Drive 062WR X*.Merger was a herd sire here for several years. He was a true gentle giant. I sold him at the auction market last June, and it was one of the hardest things I have ever done in the cattle business. It felt like I was betraying my best friend.He weighed 3270 Lb after an overnight stand in the auction mart, so I suspect he was over 3400 lb when he was full.  Not only was he the biggest Rodeo son I ever saw, he may have been one of the best  and best breeding sons of Rodeo. The only reason I sold him was that he had developed testicle degeneration the summer before and his testicles were dropped over 1 cm a month for 6 months, then it stopped as quick as it started.  I had him semen tested a few times, and while he was still producing some semen, he never got back to having freezable semen yet he was still able to settle a few cows. For a bull of this size, he was extremely easy keeping and came in from pasture every year in better shape than he went out. He was wintered on good quality hay and only got grain supplement on the coldest days. When the breeding season was done, I would just drive the truck and trailer into the pasture and open the door to the trailer and stand and wait for him to come. He would walk into the trailer and I would close the door and drive home. He did this every year from the time he was a yearling.

Merger showed tremendous growth from birth. He was 102 lb at birth and was born unassisted from a small black recip. At 7 months of age he weighed 960 lb at Agribition. He had an incredible disposition and was one of the few animals I have ever had that never had to be halter broke. He led from the moment I placed a halter on his head, and had never been worked with at all previous to this.  For the first while I thought that eventually he would snap and I would be in a wreck with him, but it never happened. When he was a 4 year old, I would drive into the pasture and he would walk over to the truck and wait for me to roll the window down. Then he would stick his huge head through the window , lay it against my chest and wait for me to rub his head.

I hated to sell him, as I had always thought he would die on the farm and be buried here. I finally decided it really was unfair to him to have him in a pen all summer by himself and get eaten by the flies. I had a lump in my throat when I drove away from the auction mart, and there was a couple times on the  way home, that I almost turned around and went an got him again. He was my friend and I still miss him.

He's not the biggest bull in the world, but the biggest I've seen. He was at a local fair last summer, he was 3400 pounds and 10 years old, I believe. The breeders said they get calls all the time, asking if they are taking "Bubba" to the fair.

When I was a kid, my grandpa had a chi bull that was the biggest I can ever remember seeing.  He was eventually sold, because he could walk out of the pastures that grandpa kept him in.  True, he didn't have the best fences in the world, but this bull could walk over the ones grandpa tried to keep him in.  He was perfectly gentle.  He'd stick his head in the truck window and lick us if Grandpa would allow it, which normally he didn't.  He was always afraid that one of us would spook this bull somehow and he'd tear up the truck, or hurt us.  He got out one time and was MIA for a week, until the local golf course called & wanted to know if Grandpa was missing a gigantic bull.  He fessed up and said it was his, and they said he'd set up camp on the golf course & grandpa needed to get him out of there before he tore up the greens any more.  They have a picture somewhere of me sitting on top of this bull, while he was eating.  I'll have to see if I can find it.  I was about 5 years old in the picture, and you can tell how enormous he was.

there was a heck of a monster in the sale barn at the OBE. he was a heatwave must have weighed 26-2700 lbs, huge

what about head on the old white chi? i know he was frickin' huge! the picture i saw of him he dwarfed the showman who is around six feet tall.

I believe Dollar ll was about 3500 lb when he was in stud . Some of the Chi bulls were much taller, but they did not weigh as much. There was also a very good Brown Swiss import bull that was almost as big as Dollarll at the time. He was a most impressive bull. I am tired and can't remember his name...

justintime said:

I believe Dollar ll was about 3500 lb when he was in stud . Some of the Chi bulls were much taller, but they did not weigh as much. There was also a very good Brown Swiss import bull that was almost as big as Dollarll at the time. He was a most impressive bull. I am tired and can't remember his name...

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i would believe that about the chi bulls, all frame and no guts. seems like the picture i saw of head on was impressive to me for the time during which he lived and for the amount of body he had.

anyone have a picture of Silver Mint.  Ken Guens told me a story about how big he was.  don't know exactly if correct but I believe he wa in excess of 72" and 3400# +

Doc Flannery used to have a white, Chi bull back in the 80's called BB Buckshot that was the biggest bull I ever saw.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huSbq6mB-EY&feature=channel_page
from IPTV on big animals at State Fair

Don't let "Tiny" step on your foot.  Might leave a mark.

Our biggest RA bull weighed 3130 in his working cloths. RW

hello everyone, i've been watching this site for about a year now, when seen this question about the biggest bull, it reminded of "old ben" the biggest steer in the world. he was stuffed and is on display at highland park in kokomo In. he weighed in at 4,700 pounds. he was born in 1902 and died 6 or 8 years of age. i think you could do a search on old ben and come up with a picture

Thanks! I will look up ol' Ben!!

Thanks for the help everyone!

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