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.

Monday 14th July seen a small show of cattle presented for sale which resulted in a super trade for the stock on offer.

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 ...

Seasonal show of cattle in town last Friday, with the dropped calf section a roaring trade, contained calves up to six months old, topped to £1120 for Belgian Blue calf for a Katesbridge farmer.

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 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 ...

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

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

Carnew Mart in Co. Wicklow hosted its weekly general cattle sale on Saturday, July 12, with over 500 head of cattle and 80 calves on offer. Commenting on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.