[1][2] It is included on the Slow Food Foundation Ark of Taste.

Although preferring to be kept free-range, the breed can be raised in a chicken coop without a problem.

[1] Well-nourished young grow quickly and reach adulthood by six months.

[1] This hen is from the province of the Bourbonnais, where white poultry, like the original Gâtinaise breed, have been raised for a very long time.

Crosses between these and Brahmas made it possible to obtain a race called the Bourbonnaise herminée, the white ones kept the name of Gâtinaises.