Grice

The Grice was a primitive breed of domestic pigs, which was limited in its distribution to the Scottish Shetland Islands. It was a wild boar breed related, but physically was very small. The animals were known for their aggressiveness, reported among other small tusks, a high, curved back and a hair brush along the longitudinal stroke on.

The breed of pigs was the climatic conditions of Shettlands well adapted. The animals were kept mostly outdoors and usually grazed on the pastures steinumfassten the tenant farmers. The pigs were known to occasionally they also attacked and devoured lambs. The so-called Grice law stipulated that the owner of such a pig had to pay a fine and had to pay all damages that wreaked such a pig.

From 1800 to keep discouraged landowners increasingly their tenants, pigs in this form. Because, increasingly, other pig breeds were imported from the Scottish mainland, the existence of the Grice - pigs fell sharply. Since at least 1930 it became extinct.