Compared with normal cattle, Belgian Blue and Piedmontese animals have an increased proficiency to convert feed into lean muscle and produce a higher percentage of the most desirable cuts of meat.

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 ...

A white blue cow farmer named Gerth was there to welcome me. I went right into the farm and saw the seventh wonder of my life, the Belgian Blue. The cattle breed originated in the central 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”.

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.

A seasonal show of 80 cattle on Monday night met with a fantastic trade for all sorts of cattle and many more could have been ...