Just for fun, here are some stats on record farm animals from Guinness World Records.
- 5 – Most calves born in a single birth, at the Santa Clara Ranch in Mexico. Each calf weighed 35 lbs.
- 16 oz. – Heaviest chicken egg, laid by a White Leghorn hen in New Jersey.
- 07″ – Shortest cow, from hoof to withers, named “Manikyam,” raised in Kerala, India.
- 5″ – Largest horn circumference on an African Watusi steer named “Lurch,” raised in Alabama.
- 90 lb. 9.76 oz. – Most wool sheared in one shearing from “Chris,” an errant sheep found in Australia.
- 478,163 lbs. – Lifetime milk production by “Smurf,” a Holstein cow owned by La Ferme Gillette Inc. Dairy Farm in Canada.
Source: Farm Journal, Late spring 2016, page 66, bottom of page.