Almost as tall as Michael Jordan and weighing more than a small car, Australia’s biggest steer has enough meat on him to make 3,000 beef patties.

But “Knickers” has been spared from the barbeque after it turned out it was too big to be processed in a normal abattoir.

The 194cm (6ft4in) Holstein Friesian will instead live out its days on a farm 85 miles south of Perth, Western Australia.

Knickers was originally purchased for A$400 (£226.7) as a 12 month old to act as a “coach” for other cattle.

The steer was put up for auction last month, where it was granted a reprieve.

“It was too heavy. I wouldn’t be able to put it through a processing facility,” farmer Geoff Pearson told Perth Now. “So I think it will just live happily ever after.”