Disbudding

Seeking Greener Pastures: Gene Editing and Animal Welfare

Picture a dairy cow with the black and white spots we all know and love, mooing happily in a grassy field. Does this dairy cow have horns? In your mind's eye, it shouldn't. But that's only because the horns are removed when the cows are young, around four weeks old, with a procedure called disbudding.

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