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The Baudet du Poitou, also called the Poitevin or Poitou donkey, is a French breed of donkey. It is one of the largest breeds, and jacks (donkey stallions) were bred to mares of the Poitevin horse breed to produce Poitevin mules, which were formerly in worldwide demand for agricultural and other work.
Baudet du Poitou: Poitevin; Poitou; France: the Poitou donkey was developed for the sole purpose of the jacks being mated with mares to produce mules. It is a large ...
Poitevin mares were put to jacks of the large Baudet du Poitou breed of donkey; the resulting Poitevin mules were in demand for agricultural and other work in many parts of the world, including Russia and the United States. [4]: 271 In the early twentieth century there were some 50,000 brood mares producing between 18,000 and 20,000 mules per year.
The Poitevin mule or French: mule Poitevine is a type of large mule from the former province of Poitou in western central France. It is the product of mating between a Baudet du Poitou jack or donkey stallion with a mare of the Poitevin Mulassier breed of draught horse. Mule production was an important industry in Poitou for three hundred years ...
The Balearic shares common origins with the Catalan and the Baudet du Poitou. [7] The donkey was in the past the most highly valued animal in Mallorca, and could be sold for very high prices. [4] In the early twentieth century it was prized outside the islands too, and many were exported to England, and later to the United States. [7]
Breeds that influenced the Mammoth Jack include the Maltese, the Baudet du Poitou, the Andalusian, the Majorcan and the Catalan. [ 2 ] Measured from the ground to the withers , Jacks (entire males) must stand at least 14 hands (56 inches, 142 cm), and jennies or jennets (females) at least 13.2 hands (54 inches, 137 cm) in order to be classified ...
The Pyrenean, French: Âne des Pyrénées, is a French breed of domestic donkey.It is distributed in a large area of south-western France, covering the whole of the regions of Aquitaine, Midi Pyrénées and Languedoc Roussillon.
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