Faculty of Health and Medical Science

Cow welfare

Dairy cattle welfare

Dairy cattle welfare – the relative effect of legislation, industry standards and labelled niche production

In this paper, the authors compared animal welfare provisions in dairy cattle production across five countries with different combinations of legislative and other approaches: Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden,…

Dairy consumption

Danish milk consumers are critical of advanced breeding methods in dairy production

Danish milk consumers are critical of advanced breeding methods in dairy production, but only 1 in 5 is unwilling to drink milk from dairy cows bred with semen derived from such methods Lund, T.B., Sandøe, P., Secher,…

Hornless cattle – is gene editing the best solution?

This paper shows that gene-editing dairy cattle for polledness seems to be a potentially acceptable and feasible solution.

Danish Dairy Farmers' Acceptance of and Willingness to Use Semen from Bulls Produced by Means of in Vitro Embryo Production and Genomic Selection

This cross-sectional study surveyed Danish dairy farmers' general acceptance of a set of a new advanced set of breeding technologies and their reported likelihood of using semen produced with them.

Slaughter of Pregnant Cattle in Denmark: Prevalence, Gestational Age, and Reasons

By S. S. Nielsen, P. Sandøe, S. U. Kjølsted, & J. S. Agerholm (2019) Animals. MDPI Abstract The slaughter of pregnant cattle gives rise to ethical controversy. We estimated the prevalence of pregnant cattle, elucidated…

Should the contribution of one additional lame cow depend on how many other cows on the farm are lame?

By P. Sandøe, B. Forkman, F. Hakansson, S. N. Andreasen, R. Nøhr, M. Denwood & T. B. Lund

Can animal-based welfare assessment be simplified? A comparison of the Welfare Quality® protocol for dairy cattle and the simpler and less time-consuming protocol developed by the Danish Cattle Federation

By S. N. Andreasen, P. Sandøe, & B. Forkman. Animal Welfare 23: 81-94. 2014 Abstract Welfare assessment protocols using primarily animal-based measures are believed to give valid information about the welfare of…

The correlation of Qualitative Behaviour Assessments with Welfare Quality® protocol outcomes

- in on-farm welfare assessment of dairy cattle S.N Andreasen, F. Wemelsfelder, P. Sandøe & B. Forkman (2013) Applied Animal Behaviour Science. Elsevier Abstract The effort to develop methods for assessing animal…

Welfare Assessments Based on Lifetime Health and Production Data in Danish Dairy Cows

By H. Houe, P. Sandøe & P. T. Thomsen. Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science. Taylor & Francis. 2011

Genomic dairy cattle breeding: Risks and opportunities for cow welfare

By T. Mark & P. Sandøe (2010) Animal Welfare. UFAW Abstract The aim of this paper is to discuss the potential consequences of modern dairy cattle breeding for the welfare of dairy cows. The paper focuses on so-called…