DID YOU KNOW...

• The largest ever recorded horse was a Percheron. (1903) It was 21 hands high, and weighed 3,940 lbs. 
  
  

• The Chianina is the largest cattle breed.  The average Chianina cow weighs between 1,700 and 2,400 lbs. and stands 5 feet tall at the whithers.  The largest Chianina bull on record weighed 4,300 lbs. 
  
  

• The largest pig on record was a Poland-China hog named Big Bill. The giant pig weighed a portly 2,552 lbs. and was so large that he dragged his belly on the ground. He had a shoulder height of 5 feet and a length of 9 feet.
   
  

• The largest sheep ever recorded was a Suffolk ram named Stratford Whisper 23H. This sheep weighed 545 lbs. and stood 43 inches tall at the shoulder.
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