Luke Gibson reports from Saturday’s cattle sale in Balla Mart, where a Belgian Blue heifer hit €4,400. This content is ...

The Belgian Blue and the Piedmontese, another breed with myostatin problems, are viable farm strains of cattle. They can live, reproduce, give milk, and be consumed with no risk to humans. To ...

This economic demand accelerated the development of Belgian Blue cattle in a more heavily muscled direction. Finally, in 1974, the breed was divided into two branches, ...

Belgian Blue cattle are hulking animals that provide unusually large amounts of prized, lean cuts of beef, the result of decades of selective breeding. Now, a team of scientists from South Korea and ...

Years of cross-breeding has created the enormous Belgian Blue cattle. But Kim’s team have by-passed this method and created the bulked-up pigs by tinkering with a “myostatin gene”.

Super-muscly livestock have been produced before. But these animals, like the famous Belgian Blue cattle, are products of meticulous breeding, and not genetic engineering. Belgian Blue bull. Owing ...

BEFORE stumbling across belgian blue cattle on a family trip to England back in the 1990s, James McUtchen couldn't have foreseen what a big role the breed would play in his future.

A smaller entry of 200 calves and weanlings on Thursday 19th June at Kilrea Mart met with an outstanding trade for all types ...

A picture of a Belgian Blue bull has gone viral due to its incredibly ripped physique. The breed of cattle have freakish muscle-bound bodies due to a naturally occurring gene mutation called ...

"Belgian blue cattle have a natural mutation in myostatin causing a 20 to 25 percent increase in muscle mass, and mice overexpressing myostatin exhibit a two-fold increase in skeletal muscle mass.