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The activities of SUST

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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Laying hen campaigns 2016

A second life for "obsolete" laying hens

The life of a laying hen is short and full of work: after ten to twelve months of intensive egg laying for their producers, the moulding starts. The moulting is a hormonally conditioned rest period in which the laying apparatus of the animals regenerates itself and the plumage is renewed. The moulting takes two to three months, at least three weeks of which a laying break takes place. The hens thus no longer make the desired profit during this time and for this reason they are gassed (or otherwise killed) after this first laying period and replaced against young chickens.

Thousands of laying hens are killed in Switzerland every year after a few months of their lives. However, some of them are lucky enough to be able to live on: the Susy Utzinger Foundation for Animal Welfare has been able to reach an agreement with the owners of various farms that they will be able to take over and place animals for which they find a new, species-appropriate place. Such stables take place several times a year, in 2016 this was on 24 February and 11 July: 411 laying hens could be transferred to good new places by the SUST teams at these stables.

Country:
  • Switzerland
5 Pillars:
  • Emergency Aid
Laying hen campaigns 2016
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