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Over the last few years, conversations about livestock have started shifting. It’s not just about how much milk or meat a ...
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, ...
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 ...
Castlerea Mart held its weekly sale of bullocks, heifers, cows, calves, runners and weanlings on Thursday, with strong demand ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Super show of cattle in town on Friday, with the dropped calf section was a roaring trade, contained calves up to six months ...