Belgian Blue bull

Belgian Blue is a breed of beef cattle from Belgium.

Alternative names for this breed include Belgian Blue-White ; Belgian White and Blue Pied ; Belgian White Blue ; Blue ; and Blue Belgian.

The Belgian Blue is named after their typically blue-grey mottled hair colour, however its colour can vary from white to black.

Belgian Blue cattle were first used as a milk and beef breed.

The breed's characteristic gene mutation was maintained through linebreeding to the point where the condition was a fixed property in the Belgian Blue breed.

The Belgian Blue has a natural mutation in the myostatin gene which codes for the protein, myostatin (" myo " meaning muscle and " statin " meaning stop ).

Since the Belgian Blue ’ s bone structure is the same as a normal cow, however holding a greater amount of muscle, causes them to have a greater meat to bone ratio.

The economics of breeding and raising Belgian Blue cattle are inconclusive because of complications experienced during parturition and metabolic demand for increased concentrated feeds.

Belgian Blue cattle require more skilled management and does not thrive in harsh environments.

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Mahmood Mamdani states that the Belgian colonial power designated people as Tutsi or Hutu on the basis of cattle ownership, physical measurements and church records.

George Christian Giebert, a young Belgian engineer, read of Liebig's work and wrote to him suggesting that they meet to discuss opening a manufacturing plant in South America using the flesh of cattle that, before the popularity of canning or freezing meat, would otherwise have been killed for their hides alone, bringing the cost of meat to one third of the European cost.

After that discovery, several laboratories cloned and established the nucleotide sequence of a myostatin gene in two breeds of cattle Belgian Blue and Piedmontese, and found that these animals have mutations in that myostatin gene ( various mutations in each breed ) which in one way or another lead to absence of functional myostatin.

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Allensworth's economy depended on agriculture ; farmers cultivated alfalfa, wheat, sugar beets, and cotton ; and raised dairy cattle, chickens, turkeys, and Belgian hares.

The Belgian Blue's meat cuts also have a lower collagen content, which allows the protein quality to be improved due to a higher yield of amino acids.

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It is believed that the seized vehicles ( which included 15 Belgian Army Pandur APCs leased to Beninise army troops ) and parts have been used to equip the Military of Equatorial Guinea, and such seizure are considered by some as an act of piracy.

NCO: Those who have completed five years of high school and have served a 4 months as voluntary soldier, will do a 9-month-stage at the Infantry Training Department of the Belgian Army in Arlon, before becoming a sergeant in the Luxembourg army.

As of the 2012 Formula One season Schumacher is the only driver left competing in Formula 1 to have raced against Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost, whose record of total career wins he beat with his 52nd win at the 2001 Belgian Grand Prix.

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The Dutch, Belgian, Thai, and Israeli Armies have various configurations of the Van Halteren Metaal LARIT M109 trainer.

A feature of its history is the number of wars between other European powers which have included campaigns on Belgian territory, causing it to be nicknamed " The Cockpit of Europe ".

The Belgian LBK is notable for its use of defensive walls around villages, something which may or may not have been necessary because of the proximity of hunter gatherers.

The successive linguistic wars have made the successive Belgian governments very unstable.

Further operations and a British supporting attack along the Belgian coast from Niewpoort, combined with an amphibious landing, were to have reached Bruges and then the Dutch frontier.

Belgian group dEUS sampled Da Da I Love You by German three-piece Trio for their version of Pa, but permission came too late to have it included on the Dutch release.

All coins have a common reverse side showing how much the coin is worth, with a design by Belgian designer Luc Luycx.

The year featured in the coins can date back to 1999, when the currency was formally established ( only Belgian, Finnish, French, Dutch, and Spanish coins have 1999 ).

Each of the eight coins can have the same design ( such as Belgian coins ), or can vary from coin to coin ( such as Italian coins ).

Belgian euro coins dated 1999 – 2007 have the portrait of King Albert II.

There have been occurrences, however, of Belgian monarchs not always respecting this spirit.

Nevertheless, Anouilh refused to comment on his political views, writing in a letter to the Belgian critic Hubert Gignoux in 1946, " I do not have a biography and I am very happy about it.

Since around 1970, the significant national Belgian political parties have split into distinct representations for each communities ' interests besides defenders of their ideologies.

Consequently, as German interest rates rose after 1990, Belgian rates have increased and contributed to a decline in the economic growth rate.

Several representatives of the SP. A and, to a lesser extent, the CD & V and VLD parties, prefer an improved federal organisation of the Belgian state over a confederal one.

Delays used to be common, but in the last few years services have improved ; together with the Swiss Federal Railways (# 1 ), and the Belgian railways (# 3 ), the Dutch Railways is in the top 3 of Europe.

The system was improved during the 1850s by Louis Christophe and the Belgian engineer Joseph Montigny, with the completion of the 37-barrel Montigny mitrailleuse in 1863.

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