This meat is sold in shops ... Belgian Blues were first introduced to Ireland in 1980 by Michael Woods. Irish Belgian Blue Cattle Society chairman Michael Scanlon, who is farming in Co Kerry ...

While they comprise a relatively small percentage of the international market, the meat itself is ... muscle growth. The Belgian Blue and the Piedmontese, another breed with myostatin problems, are ...

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.

“Belgian Blue cattle do well on this system because they have good feed conversion, meat quality and conformation. Calves arrive at 50kg and leave at 350kg at six months old ...

Strong numbers of both potential and prime cattle graced the showring at Hatherleigh ... and Ben Jenkinson from Shebbear with a 550kg Belgian Blue x Limousin steer. The steer was shown as a ...

Cows The breeding of beef cattle can be traced back to the efforts ... The most extreme example today is the Belgian Blue (right), a cow bred to have twice the normal amount of muscle.

BEFORE stumbling across belgian blue cattle on a trip to England ... Kath said they liked coming to Beef Australia to promote the breed, and brought along a heifer, two bulls and a steer this ...

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 ...