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There are two types of domesticated goose raised in Italy. The first, the smaller of the two and with grey plumage, is only kept for its meat and comes mainly from Piedmont, Emilia-Romagna and Padua. The second is the Toulouse type, which can reach a weight of 10 kg (22 lb) and is especially raised for the production of foie gras (fegato grasso). In Italy, the goose used to have a similar status to the pig because, like the pig, the whole bird had a use, whether it was the meat and fat or the fattened liver and feathers.