Our estate
Our breeding farm
A 70-hectare estate dedicated to quality game breeding
1951
année de fondation
70 ha
dont 15 ha de volières
n° 38001
élevage agréé, Isère
3
générations Guillioud
Le site de production
The estate
Located in the village of Chatte, in the heart of Isère, our farm spans 70 hectares of agricultural and wooded land. This exceptional natural setting provides our animals with an ideal environment close to their wild living conditions. The estate is crossed by natural streams and bordered by country hedgerows that promote biodiversity.
- 70 hectares
- A large area allowing each species the space it needs for natural development.
- Preserved natural setting
- Hedgerows, woodlands, streams and natural meadows form a favourable biotope for game.
- Geographic location
- Located in Isère (38), at the crossroads of road routes enabling rapid delivery across all of France.
Les volières
The aviaries
Our 15 hectares of aviaries are the heart of our breeding activity. Each aviary is designed to reproduce natural conditions as closely as possible: dense plant cover, shade and light zones, shelter from the elements. This approach produces birds with wild behaviour, capable of flying and acting naturally from the moment of release.
15 covered hectares
One of the largest game breeding aviary complexes in France.
Natural vegetation
Each aviary is planted with cover crops (sorghum, maize, sunflower) recreating the natural habitat.
Controlled density
The number of birds per aviary is strictly controlled to guarantee welfare and quality.
Ce que mangent nos oiseaux
Grain production
GIBIS produces a large share of the grain used to feed its animals directly on the farm. This control over the food chain allows us to guarantee healthy, GMO-free feed tailored to the specific needs of each species at every stage of development.
On-site crops
Wheat, maize, sorghum and sunflower grown on our own land.
Controlled nutrition
Formulations adapted by species, age and season, GMO-free and no growth antibiotics.
Full traceability
From seed to game bird, every production step is documented and traceable.
Les étapes de production
Breeding centre
Our breeding centre is equipped with state-of-the-art incubators and hatchers. Eggs are collected daily from the breeding pens and undergo rigorous grading before incubation. Hatch rates and chick vitality are continuously monitored, ensuring the genetic quality of our bloodlines.
Modern incubators
Latest-generation equipment ensuring precise temperature and humidity control.
Genetic selection
Our breeding stock is selected on criteria of hardiness, behaviour and morphology.
Health monitoring
Strict veterinary protocol with regular analyses and an adapted prophylaxis programme.
Contrôle qualité
Quality control
Quality is at the heart of our approach. Every batch of animals intended for sale is inspected by our team and issued a veterinary health certificate by an approved vet. Our facilities are regularly inspected by the departmental veterinary services and we comply with all applicable regulations.
Health certificates
Every delivery is accompanied by a health certificate compliant with regulations.
Veterinary checks
Regular inspections by Isère veterinary services.
Animal welfare standards
Compliance with French and European animal welfare standards for farmed game.
Transport
Transport fleet
GIBIS operates its own fleet of trucks and vans specially equipped for live game transport. Our vehicles are fitted with ventilation systems, species-specific compartments and temperature control devices. This logistics independence allows us to ensure fast deliveries under the best animal welfare conditions.
Specialist vehicles
Trucks and vans with ventilated compartments and temperature control.
Direct delivery
No middlemen: our drivers deliver directly from the farm to your territory.
National coverage
Delivery across all of metropolitan France on a planned schedule.
Le cadre réglementaire
Our approvals and traceability
Breeding game for release falls under a strict regulatory framework. Our authorisations, our inspections and our traceability are all verifiable — this is what allows a hunting ground to justify the origin of its animals to its administration.
Farm no. 38001
An establishment registered and holding the veterinary, health and environmental approvals in force.
Certificate of competence
Our staff hold the certificate of competence for running a breeding farm, together with training in animal welfare and biosecurity.
Full traceability
A health certificate and supporting invoice provided with every delivery; TRACES documents for shipments within the European Union.
Continuity of service
During an avian influenza outbreak, GIBIS was able to keep delivering game under prefectural authorisation.
Notre histoire
Three generations in Chatte
GIBIS is a family business founded in 1951 and based in Chatte, in the Isère, from the very beginning. Three generations of the Guillioud family have succeeded one another here, and the farm is today one of the few in France to cover feathered game, small ground game and large game alike, with an export business reaching across Europe. It is this continuity that makes it possible to select strains over the long term: our exclusive FAISAN PUR CHASSE® strain is the product of several decades of selective breeding.
- Since 1951
- More than 75 years of continuous breeding on the same site, in the Isère.
- Family business
- Three generations of the Guillioud family, an SARL with a share capital of €271,300.
- Exclusive strain
- FAISAN PUR CHASSE®, a registered trademark: a strain that we alone produce.
- International references
- Deliveries and projects carried out across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
- A farm visited by the federations
- In July 2026, the Fédération des Chasseurs de l'Isère chose our farm to present its young-pheasant scheme to some forty hunters from Haute-Loire. The account of the visit is on our young-pheasant page.
Our production
The species produced on our game farm
Our game farm produces feathered game and small ground game — poults and young partridges for summer restocking, and adult birds for the shooting season. The prices below are our 2026 catalogue prices per bird, falling with quantity; they exclude transport, which is quoted according to the delivery round. We do not produce quail — releasing them is prohibited in France — and we stopped breeding Reeves’s pheasant more than twenty years ago: we would rather tell you straight away than waste your phone call.
| Species produced | Restocking / summer release | Shooting season (adults) |
|---|---|---|
| Common pheasant and US cross | Poult, 14 weeks — 11,60 € | 14,90 € each; cock only 16,50 € |
| FAISAN PUR CHASSE® | Poult, 14 weeks — 13,50 € | 19,00 € each |
| Red-legged partridge | 10,30 € each; covey of 10 (9 + 1 leader) 102,00 € | 11,40 € each |
| Grey partridge (pure French strain) | 10,60 € each; covey of 10 (9 + 1 leader) 105,00 € | 11,70 € each |
| Mallard duck | Vaccinated young, 8-10 weeks — 13,00 € | 16,50 € each |
| Wild rabbit | 16,30 € each; pair 49,50 €; trio 75,00 € | Same — restocking all year round |
| Hare | French leveret, 3-4 months — 95,00 € | Quotation subject to availability |
Four pheasant strains
Common, FAISAN PUR CHASSE®, Chinese and melanistic: the strain selection guide tells you which one suits your ground.
Red-legged, grey and chukar partridges
In reconstituted coveys of 10 birds or singly, and as fertile partridge eggs.
Small ground game
Wild rabbits singly, in pairs or in trios, and French leverets for restocking programmes.
Mallard reared on the pond
Breeding stock living free on open water: powerful fliers that settle quickly on a new pond.
Telling the difference
Breeder or dealer: five questions to ask before you order
The release-game market is full of middlemen: dealers who buy consignments abroad, hold them for a few days and resell them under their own name. Nothing illegal about it, but it is not the same thing as a breeding farm — and the difference shows on release day, not on the quotation. Here are the five questions that settle it in a single phone call. A genuine breeder answers them without hesitating, and invites you to come and see for yourself. We welcome group visits — federations, hunting associations, shooting clubs — by appointment; that is how some forty hunters from the Haute-Loire came to see our aviaries in July 2026, as our federation references page recounts.
1. “What is your holding number?”
A breeder has an establishment number and approvals in his own name — ours is no. 38001. A dealer will talk to you about his “supplier”.
2. “Where were the birds hatched?”
Hatched and reared on site, or bought in abroad as a consignment two weeks before delivery? The stress of a double journey is paid for in mortality after release.
3. “How long have you had this strain?”
Selecting a strain takes decades. If nobody can tell you where the blood of their breeding stock comes from, there is no selection going on.
4. “May I come and see the aviaries?”
A farm that refuses visits has something to hide: stocking density, plumage, the cocks’ tails. With us, a visit is booked by telephone.
5. “What comes with the delivery?”
A veterinary health certificate, a proof-of-origin invoice, and TRACES documents for the European Union. That is what covers you in an inspection.
The support
What we bring beyond the birds: release advice
A game farm that simply delivers crates misses the point: the success of a release depends as much on the ground as on the aviary. We have more than seventy years of field feedback — shooting clubs, hunting associations, departmental federations, large estates — and we make it available before you order, not afterwards. In practice: which strain for your habitat, what age of bird for your opening date, how many birds per 100 hectares, where to site the pre-release pens, which feeders and cover crops to establish, and what paperwork to anticipate. That twenty-minute phone call is often what changes the season’s recovery rate — and we sometimes recommend ordering fewer birds and managing the ground better instead.
A successful release
Timing, densities, pre-release pens, acclimatisation: the full method is on achieving a successful release.
Managing the ground
Feeding, game cover crops, water points and winter cover: see feeding and habitat management.
Choosing the right strain
Plain, hedgerow country, woodland or hills: the pheasant strain guide decides according to your ground.
Getting the rules right
Declarations, permitted species, release periods: see small game regulations.
Our references
Federations, hunting associations, estates and export: who buys our game
Our customers are first and foremost the organisations that manage game populations over the long term: departmental hunters’ federations, ACCA and AICA hunting associations, village shooting clubs and game management groups, but also private estates, shooting grounds and organisers of shooting days. In the summer of 2026, 2 312 FAISAN PUR CHASSE® poults were delivered to 59 shooting-rights holders in the Isère under the poult scheme of the Isère departmental hunters’ federation, and in July 2026 our aviaries welcomed 24 hunting associations from the Haute-Loire who came to see how the birds they release are produced. The sourced details of these operations are on our they trust us page. Internationally, we have carried out deliveries and game-farm establishment projects in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
- Departmental federations
- Collective restocking operations, with specifications covering strain, age and release densities.
- Hunting associations and shooting clubs
- From a batch of 50 poults for a small commune to multi-year programmes: no minimum order for collection at the farm.
- Estates and shooting grounds
- Staggered quality releases for organised days, where the flight of the birds carries your reputation.
- Export
- Intra-EU consignments with TRACES documents; game-farm projects supported in the Middle East and North Africa.
When to call us
Ordering: how a game farm plans its year
A breeding farm works a year ahead: next summer’s numbers are decided when the breeding pens are made up, in winter. In practice, that means the best ordering dates are far earlier than most hunters imagine. From January to April, summer poults and young partridges are booked, along with hatching eggs; from May to July, summer restocking deliveries are scheduled and final volumes adjusted; from August to December come the season’s adult birds and staggered shooting releases. August and September are our two tightest months: at that point, what has not been booked is not necessarily available. Orders are taken by telephone on 04 76 38 31 01 or by e-mail — we have no online ordering, because every quotation starts with a conversation about your ground.
January – April
Booking of the coming season’s poults, young partridges and hatching eggs. The window in which you get the strains you want.
May – July
Delivery of summer restocking poults and young partridges, between 15 June and 15 August depending on the specifications.
August – December
Shooting-season adults and staggered releases, to be ordered at least three to four weeks before the date you want.
Quotation by telephone
04 76 38 31 01: prices fall with quantity, transport quoted according to the regional delivery round.
Frequently Asked Questions
Qu'est-ce qu'un élevage de gibier de chasse ?
Où se trouve votre élevage de gibier de chasse ?
Quelles espèces de gibier élevez-vous, et à quel prix ?
Quels agréments faut-il pour un élevage de gibier, et lesquels avez-vous ?
Comment reconnaître un vrai éleveur d'un simple revendeur de gibier ?
Peut-on visiter l'élevage ou venir chercher ses oiseaux sur place ?
Quand faut-il commander pour être livré à temps ?
Livrez-vous partout en France et à l'étranger ?
See also
Parlons de votre territoire avant de parler de quantités
Surface, milieu, date d'ouverture, objectif : décrivez-nous votre territoire au 04 76 38 31 01 ou par e-mail, et nous vous dirons quelle espèce, quelle souche et quel âge d'oiseau donneront le meilleur résultat chez vous — devis sous 48 h. Élevage GIBIS, Chatte, Isère, depuis 1951. La chasse, au naturel !