Bazadaise

[4]: 124  A festival, the Fête des Boeufs Gras, is held each year in Bazas to present fattened Bazadaise stock.

The Bazadaise or Grise de Bazas is a traditional draught breed of the Pyrénées and the Gironde, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France.

It is named for the town of Bazas in the Gironde, and is still strongly associated with it: an annual festival, the Fête des Boeufs Gras [fr], is held each year in Bazas to celebrate and present the Bazadaise and its meat, which is heavily marbled and renowned for its tenderness and flavour.

In the years after the Second World War, the mechanisation of agriculture and more extensive cultivation of cereal crops in the region both contributed to a rapid decline in numbers.

[5]: 120 The Bazadaise was traditionally a draught breed, used for tasks such as hauling cut wood from the forest.