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An Alberta farm is home to Beef, the world’s tallest steer
Beef stands 1.95 metres tall and weighs 1,100 kilograms, surpassing the previous record by one centimetre, according to Guinness World Records.
- The Guinness Book of World Records announced Beef, the steer, as the world’s tallest living steer at 1.95 metres, after officials measured him two years ago.
- Jasmine Entz said she first noticed Beef as a slimy, scrawny newborn and friends suggested his size was record-worthy, which Beef confirmed earlier this year by outgrowing his trailer.
- Beef eats about 45 kilograms of hay daily, costing $400 a month, and last year he finished a pickup full of pumpkins in three hours.
- Entz recalled riding him by age two, and Beef now grazes with Josie, a white cow with black speckles, Talent, a horse, and more than 50 miniature goats.
- This report by The Canadian Press covered Beef's Guinness recognition, and Jasmine Entz said she had been told steers never stop growing and observed Beef still growing earlier this year.
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An Alberta Farm Is Home to the World’s Tallest Steer
It was love at first sight when Jasmine Entz locked eyes with Beef’s scrawny, slimy body covered in straw that had emerged from the womb at the first slip of dawn in August 2017. “He looked at me and I looked at him and I thought: that one’s cute,” said Entz, of Vulcan County, Alta. She asked her boss at the dairy farm if she could take the calf home once he was weaned off milk. He said yes. For reasons she didn’t understand, Entz, 29, had alway…
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An Alberta farm is home to Beef, the world’s tallest steer
VULCAN, ALBERTA — It was love at first sight when Jasmine Entz locked eyes with Beef’s scrawny, slimy body covered in straw that had emerged from the womb at the first slip of dawn in August 2017.
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An Alberta farm is home to Beef, the world's tallest steer
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Leaning Left20Leaning Right5Center4Last UpdatedBias Distribution69% Left
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