Oie de Touraine
.jpg) Goose | |
.jpg) Gander | |
| Conservation status | |
|---|---|
| Distribution | Touraine |
| Use | |
| Traits | |
| Weight |
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| Colour | white |
| Classification | |
| APA | no[3] |
| EE | no[4] |
| PCGB | not recognised[5] |
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The Oie de Touraine is a French breed of goose originating in the historical province of Touraine in west-central France. It is always white, and may have common origins with other white regional breeds of west and central France.[6]: 62 [7]: 25 Like most other domestic geese, it derives from the wild species Anser anser.[8]
History
The Oie de Touraine was bred in the historical province of Touraine – the area surrounding the city of Tours – in west-central France, now mostly in the département of Indre-et-Loire but also partly within those of Indre, Loir-et-Cher and Vienne. It may share its origins with other white regional breeds of west and central France including the Oie Blanche du Poitou of Poitou to the west and the Oie Blanche du Bourbonnais of the Bourbonnais to the east.[6]: 62 [7]: 25
By the 1940s there was a breed society – the Club agricole de Touraine – and a regional breed standard.[9]: 45 A breed standard was submitted for approval to the national Fédération Française des Volailles in 1998, but was rejected; it was approved in the following year.[7]: 25 It is not among the breeds listed by the Entente Européenne d'Aviculture et de Cuniculture.[4]
It was not among the French breeds of goose listed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations as part of its report on the The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture in 2007.[1]: 48 No population data has ever been reported to DAD-IS, and in 2026 the conservation status of the breed was unknown.[2]
Characteristics
It is of medium size, with a weight of some 5 to 6.5 kg for geese and 6 to 7 kg for ganders.[7]: 25 It is pure white, with orange-yellow bill and legs.[7]: 25 [10]
Use
The Oie de Touraine is reared both for its white down and feathers and as a roasting bird. It is fast-growing, hardy and rustic, and is suitable as a farm-yard bird.[7]: 25 [11]: 70 The eggs weigh about 140 g.[7]: 25
References
- 1 2 Barbara Rischkowsky, Dafydd Pilling (editors) (2007). List of breeds documented in the Global Databank for Animal Genetic Resources, annex to The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Rome: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 9789251057629. Archived 23 June 2020.
- 1 2 Breed Data Sheet: Oie de Touraine / France (Goose (domestic)). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed August 2026.
- ↑ APA Recognized Breeds and Varieties: As of January 1, 2012. American Poultry Association. Archived 4 November 2017.
- 1 2 Liste des races et variétés homologuée dans les pays EE (28.04.2013). Entente Européenne d’Aviculture et de Cuniculture. Archived 16 June 2013.
- ↑ Geese. Poultry Club of Great Britain. Archived 9 November 2018.
- 1 2 Chris Ashton (2012). Keeping Geese. Ramsbury, Marlborough: The Crowood Press. ISBN 9781847973368.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Alain Fournier (2005). L'élevage des oies et des canards (in French). Paris: Artémis. ISBN 9782844163486.
- ↑ Gérard Guy, Roger Buckland (editors) (2002). Annexe 1. Souches d'oies (in French); in: Production des oies, FAO Animal Production and Health Paper 154. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISSN 0254-6019, ISBN 9251048622. Archived 27 May 2025.
- ↑ Gabriel Lissot (1946). Oies et canards (in French). Paris: Flammarion.
- ↑ Liste des variétés canards, oies, dindons, pintades reconnues en France, Janvier 2025 (in French). Fédération Française des Volailles. Archived 15 August 2025.
- ↑ Jean-Baptiste de Panafieu (2008). Des oies et des canards (in French). Gulf Stream Éditeur. ISBN 9782354880149.