"We participate in the market because we think it is important for consumers to know that laying hens are replaced with young hens after about a year. And you can't sell the meat as chicken afterwards, because these hens were only bred for egg production and don't prepare enough meat," the project managers Sabina Flammer and Simone Maurer report. "At our stand eggs from rescued laying hens, various chicken decoration articles and bowl hangers with chicken motifs will be sold.

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The life of a laying hen is short and full of work: After ten to twelve months of intensive egg laying for their producer, they come to the so-called Mauser. The moult is a hormonally induced rest during which the laying apparatus of the animals regenerates and the plumage is renewed. The moult lasts two to three months, at least three weeks of which are used for laying. The hens therefore no longer make the desired profit during this period and are therefore gassed (or killed differently) after this first laying period and replaced by young hens. In Switzerland, 2 million laying hens are killed every year after only a few months of their lives.
However, some of them are lucky and are allowed to live on: The Susy Utzinger Animal Welfare Foundation was able to agree with the owners of various laying farms that they could take over and place animals for which they found a new, species-appropriate place. Such stables take place several times a year.