Over the last few years, conversations about livestock have started shifting. It’s not just about how much milk or meat a ...

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

Castlerea Mart held its weekly sale of bullocks, heifers, cows, calves, runners and weanlings on Thursday, with strong demand ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

But Belgium is also famous for a cattle breed known as Belgian Blue, also called White Blue, Blue White and so on. For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel.

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”.

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.

Steers Steer prices reached a ceiling of £2510 for 640kg Charolais (392.00) presented by R and C McAllister, £2310 580kg Limousin (398.00); M Reid £2260 640kg Aberdeen Angus (353.00), £2230 610kg ...

Keen prices are encouraging larger entries than usual for early summer, exemplified by over 430 calves and weanlings ...