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 ...

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 ...

However Belgian Blue cattle can often endure a slew of serious health problems Credit: Alamy. A Belgian breed of cattle, the Belgian Blues have a naturally occurring mutation called "double ...

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 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 A Sharper trade for steers saw prices peak at £2490 for a 715kg Aberdeen Angus (348.00) presented by J McIvor, £2480 ...