In Feusis on the farm, pastures a bit odd sheep. You get used to with time on her appearance, says the breeder, Christian Feusi. Not yet accustomed to the majority of passers-by, passing by the pasture. Therefore a lot of load on the fence a break and photograph the animals. It, in turn, have become accustomed Feusis.

On Easter Monday, stopped but no passers-by, but two police officers in Uniform. Watch the sheep, while the sheep eat straight holder, on the forecourt to have lunch. One of the officials, Martin army, the chief of the Wädenswiler city police. “A Walker has reported to us sheep, what red heads have,” he writes some days later for the incident. “He suspected, because of the continuing glorious weather, a sunburn, and reported it to the police.” So you had advanced hazards to the beautiful mountain high – “extended”. “The police is obliged”, says the army.

A popular photo subject for passers-by: A part of the flock of sheep on the hills in the beautiful mountain. Image: Raisa Durandi

the Meadow is about 25 sheep; ewes and lambs graze. At first glance they are ordinary sheep: bleating, their bells tinkling, their fur is white. However, on closer inspection, the skin is irritated color is actually A bright Red in the face and anywhere where the skin shimmers under the fur. A Red like a sun burn.

“This is totally normal,” says Christian Feusi. The skin color was due to such a lack of protection from solar radiation. The origin of the pigmentation of sun rather in the nature and the genes of the sheep: they belong to the French race “Rouge de l’ouest”. Their name-giving feature is the red skin.

the sheep have something Sinister

Christian Feusi is in the Canton of Zurich is the only breeder of the breed in Switzerland, it is only available in Geneva for more. He drives up to the French Atlantic coast, to buy new sheep. The lohne. Because the “Rouge de l’ouest”-sheep provide a lot of meat, because they are robust and their births easily, because you will hardly need to force feed. “Clearly, they’re not exactly at first sight,” says the breeder. Red head, protruding eyes: The sheep have something Sinister, at least in the older animals.

a veterinarian by profession, a sheep farmer in the heart: Christian Feusi. Image: Raisa Durandi

Feusi was able to calm down the police at their surprise visit on Easter Monday quickly and the fear from the world, the animals would find little protection from the sun. This they sought in the shade of the trees. Nevertheless the history for Christian Feusi is more than a curious anecdote. Him seems to Show against breeders and farmers had become in the last five to ten years, significantly more often. More and more farmers would blacken due to the alleged compliance with animal protection regulations.

More messages from Private

Feusi, speaks from experience: The hobby breeder is a vet in your main job Gross. His customers said that they frequently receive a visit from the police or from the veterinary office. The farmer, whose cattle are allegedly got no water in the trough standing just out of sight of the path. Or the sheep-farmers, was displayed due to lack of weather protection – even though the sheep would find these under the trees at the edge of the forest.

A request from the veterinary office of the Canton of Zurich confirmed Feusis conjecture: The number of messages in Private, what is the objection to the keeping of farm animals, rose in the Canton. It was 2015, 141, increased the number 2018 on 204. Introduced farmers and hobby holders that have only a few chickens are attributed to.

“In the past ten years, have always received more messages from the population in the us.”Regula Vogel, head of the Zurich Veterinary office

“In the past ten years, have always received more messages from the population in the us,” says Regula Vogel, head of the Veterinary office. However, the proportion of hold-up Ads is always about the same. “Estimated at two-thirds of the control that a defect actually exists.”

bird sees the reason for the increase in the Advertisements in the increased sensitivity of the population. If the media reported intensively on animal protection cases, such as in 2017, on the case of yeast, hofen, Canton of Thurgau, in the case of the blatant abuses were detected, there is then a noticeable.

“Clearly, they’re not exactly at first sight,” says a breeder himself, Christian Feusi about his sheep. Image: Raisa Durandi

Christian Feusi is basically that you look at animal welfare issues. What bothers him is the way. “These people make a cell phone image and to show farmers, without more insight, without understanding, what need these animals and what not. And above all: without any prompting.” The sun on the Zeitgeist, he believes: To denounce more and talk less. And many would have a generally negative image of the agriculture .

The sheep are also to be in the house at all

“It may be that a large part of the population has lost touch with agriculture,” says Christine Künzli, Deputy Director of the Foundation animal in the law. You are welcome but that people are more sensitive and sensitized than it was ten, twenty years. The police and the veterinary office can’t be everywhere – you have to rely on reports from the public,” says Künzli. Of course you would have to check exactly, whether the allegations of something was off.

The farm on the hill in beautiful mountain the Feusis have bought ten years ago. The sheep are also in your house anywhere: your fur is used as insulation in the walls, serves as a mattress pad and Duvetfüllung in the bedroom, cushions the office chair.

A photo album for the sheep: images from the beginnings of sheep farming in the Feusis. Image: Raisa Durandi

Karin Feusi sitting at the dining room table and leafing through the books in which the development of the sheep flock since the beginning of the end of the 1980s, has documented. Each sheep is marked with the name, its properties are listed. Earlier, the Feusis even led a photo album, almost like the own three boys.

“The animals have most of the farmers family connection,” says Christian Feusi. They loved their animals and are concerned for you. “That’s why each display is a personal insult and insinuation,” he says. “As if a mother is attacked, they do not look right on your child.”

(Tages-Anzeiger)

Created: 26.04.2019, 20:01 PM