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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.
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.
It is a large donkey breed with a very long shaggy coat and no dorsal stripe: Benderi: Iran: Biyang: China: Bourik: Haiti: Brasil: Venezuela: Bulgaro: Venezuela: Bulgarian donkey: Bulgaria: Burro: Mexico, Nicaragua, United States: small donkey of Mexico and the U.S. seen in both domesticated and feral states; some feral burros in the western U ...
Poitevin mule with pack-saddle at the Salon International de l'Agriculture in Paris in 2013. 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 ...
The term mammoth donkey or mammoth jack is both an informal term for a large male donkey and a term sometimes applied generically to some specific large donkey breeds or landraces. The American mammoth donkey or mammoth jack; The baudet de Poitou or Poitevin donkey
The American Mammoth Jackstock is a breed of North American donkey, descended from large donkeys imported to the United States from about 1785. George Washington, with Henry Clay and others, bred for an ass that could be used to produce strong work mules. Washington was offering his jacks for stud service by 1788.
Donkeys in the province of Zamora date back to at least the fifteenth century. The Zamorano donkey was exported to the New World, and was the first Spanish donkey to contribute to the evolution of the North American donkey. From the eighteenth century it appears also to have influenced the development of the French Baudet du Poitou breed. [5]
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