Danish Red
- Dairy cattle
- High fat and protein content
- Excellent health and fertility
The Red Danish breed is especially known for the high fat and protein content in the milk produced, making it perfectly suitable for the production of fatty dairy products. Together with the high fat and protein content, the breed is famous for its health, fertility and ease of calving. Allthough being a dairy breed, the breed is also known for its high carcass yield at slaughter.
Instead of using the purebreed Red Danish, the breed is commonly used to increase the quality of other dairy breeds to inherit the strong traits of the Red Danish cattle into other dairy breeds. A well-known example of this is the crossbreeding of Ayrshire breed with the Red Danish breed, resulting in cattle of manageable size, higher production, good fat and protein content and a strong health.
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The Danish Red breed originates from isles of Danmark by crossbreeding local red cattle with Angels from the Schleswig-Holstein area from Germany. The breed Danish Red was officially recognized in the 19th century. As a result of the traits such strong health, strong hooves, ease of calving and high fat and protein content, the breed was widely exported to different areas in Europe where it was used to develop new local red breeds. Red breeds such as Estonian Red, Latvian Red, Lithuanian Red, Polish Red, Bulgarian Red, Tambov Red, Belarussian Red and Russian Red all originated from the Danish Red breed.
Until the middle of the 20th century, the breed was used in over 60% of the dairy farms in Denmark. However, after the wide spread of the Holstein-Friesian breed, which has a higher production in terms of quantity of milk produced, the popularity of the Danish Red breed dropped and by the end of the 20th century it was only used in about 20% of the dairy farms in Denmark.