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All over the world, countless animals in overcrowded shelters live sadly or struggle for their survival in wild colonies. Day after day, even today, animals that have become inconvenient are still abandoned, deported or mistakenly kept for lack of better knowledge. The Susy Utzinger Animal Welfare Foundation contributes with effective means to the fact that animal suffering can be reduced or even prevented sustainably.

This animal welfare work is based on four pillars:

1. Competence Centre Animal Shelter: Animal shelters become high-quality transition stations for homeless animals, where animals are kept and promoted in a way that is appropriate for their species and finally transferred to good new places.

2. Neutering campaigns: Braking the animal misery

3. Education and training of specialists: Specialists are given the opportunity to optimise their knowledge and improve animal welfare.

4. Education of the population: love of animals with heart and mind

These four elements form the important basis for sustainable animal welfare projects.

Those animals that are not yet able to benefit from the effects of this reconstruction work and have been born into a world where they are not wanted need the emergency aid of SUST.

Emergency aid as a basis for sustainable animal welfare projects: saving lives of animals

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430 laying hens are looking for a new home

Over two million young laying hens are taken out of service in Switzerland every year because they no longer lay enough eggs.

Such animals find new places through the laying hen campaigns of the Susy Utzinger Foundation. The next one will take place in January in the canton of Aargau.

The life of a laying hen is short and intense: after ten to twelve months, it is no longer in demand as an egg supplier. The hens then enter the so-called moulting period: a hormonally induced resting period during which the laying apparatus of the animals regenerates and the plumage is renewed. During moulting, the hens lay fewer eggs - with the result that the hens are no longer economically viable and become disposable. Healthy, young hens are killed and replaced by new, more productive ones.

The Susy Utzinger Animal Welfare Foundation SUST takes care of such hens: With its regular laying hen campaigns it contributes to the fact that as many laying hens as possible are allowed to live a longer life. The next action will take place in January in Zuzgen (AG). There about 430 brown laying hens are waiting for animal-loving people who can offer them a new, species-appropriate home. These laying hens still live up to their name, by the way. They still lay eggs, only not as many as at their "peak times".

Interested parties have to prove in a form that the animals get a good place to live: https://www.susyutzinger.ch/Metamenu/Formulare/Soforthilfe/Legehennen

In addition, a SUST team is on hand to contact the new owners before and after admission, answer any questions and in some cases visit them.

Questions may be sent by e-mail to legehennen@susyutzinger.ch.

430 laying hens are looking for a new home
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