When Ann Cochram first locked eyes with the world's biggest cattle breed at the Perth Royal Show in 1984, she was enamoured by their "magical, physical presence".

"Although they're a very big animal, they're very elegant," she said.

" They actually are very beautiful, maybe not to everybody else, but to my eyes they are. "

Chianina cattle can weigh more than 1.7 tonnes, the same as a small car, and stand about 2 metres tall.

Ms Cochram and her husband Noel have been breeding Chianina, which originated in Italy, on their little farm in Karridale, 300 kilometres south of Perth, for the past 17 years.

"We initially had Angus cattle … and then we thought our property is really quite small, it's only 50 hectares, but [we wanted to] do what we've dreamed of doing," she said.

"We thought,

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