Those Guinness World Record holders are just coming out of the woodwork for the launch of the 2011 version of the famous book of factoids. First, the world’s largest and smallest dogs made a public appearance together in New York City. Now, the spotlight falls onto a diminutive Dexter cow named Swallow, the world’s smallest cow. Swallow, despite having given birth to 9 healthy calves, is only 33 inches tall from foot to hindquarters!
Staggeringly, Swallow’s oldest calf is already taller than his mother! Swallow is also 11years old, so it’s not as if she’s going to grow any time soon. Dexters are known as a diminutive breed, but Swallow is short by even Dexter standards. According to her owner, Caroline Ryder, Swallow is pregnant with her 10th calf as we speak, all of which have been of normal size and normal amount of legs. Also, interestingly, the calf loves to listen to the radio in her stall when she’s not grazing with her herd.
Instead of a hep cat, you could say that this BBC Radio-listening heifer is a hep calf!
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