The grice was a type of swine found in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and in Ireland. It became extinct, surviving longest in the Shetland Isles, where it disappeared in the late nineteenth century. It was also known as the Highland, Hebridean or Irish pig. Accounts from the early 19th century suggest the grice was an aggressive animal with small tusks, an arched back, and a coat of stiff dark bristles over a fleece of wool.

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  • Das Grice war eine primitive Rasse von Hausschweinen, die in ihrer Verbreitung auf die schottischen Shetlandinseln begrenzt war. Es handelte sich um eine dem Wildschwein nahe stehende Rasse, die aber körperlich sehr klein war. Die Tiere waren für ihre Aggressivität bekannt, wiesen unter anderem kleine Hauer, einen hohen, gebogenen Rücken sowie eine Haarbürste entlang des Längsstrichs auf. Die Schweinerasse war den klimatischen Bedingungen der Shettlands gut angepasst. Die Tiere wurden überwiegend im Freien gehalten und weideten gewöhnlich auf den steinumfassten Weiden der Landpächter. Die Schweine waren bekannt dafür, dass sie gelegentlich auch Lämmer angriffen und fraßen. Das sogenannte Grice law legte fest, dass der Besitzer eines solchen Schweines eine Geldstrafe zu entrichten hatte sowie für alle Schäden aufzukommen hatte, die ein solches Schwein anrichtete. Ab 1800 entmutigten Landbesitzer zunehmend ihre Pächter, Schweine in dieser Form zu halten. Da zunehmend auch andere Schweinerassen vom schottischen Festland importiert wurden, nahm der Bestand der Grice-Schweine stark ab. Seit spätestens 1930 ist sie ausgestorben.
  • The grice was a type of swine found in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and in Ireland. It became extinct, surviving longest in the Shetland Isles, where it disappeared in the late nineteenth century. It was also known as the Highland, Hebridean or Irish pig. Accounts from the early 19th century suggest the grice was an aggressive animal with small tusks, an arched back, and a coat of stiff dark bristles over a fleece of wool. Highland examples were described as "a small, thin-formed animal, with bristles standing up from nose to tail...". Like other livestock in these areas, the grice was small and hardy, able to survive the harsh environmental conditions. Highland grice foraged for berries on moorland. "Grice" is a Scots and northern English dialect word originally meaning "young pig" (compare the Scandinavian gris, meaning "pig"). Most Shetland crofts would have at least one grice kept on grazing lands, but they would often roam across adjacent farmland, rooting up crops and occasionally killing and eating newborn lambs. According to geologist Samuel Hibbert, who wrote an account of the islands in 1822, although the grice was "small and scrawny", its meat made "excellent hams" when cured. Islanders also made footballs from the grice's bladders, and even windowpanes from their intestines, by stretching the membrane over a wooden frame until they were sufficiently thin to allow light to pass through. The animal's bristles were used as thread for sewing leather and for making ropes. However, useful as the animals no doubt were, neighbours were constantly grumbling about the behaviour of their neighbour's grice, and the courts were empowered to confiscate particularly troublesome pigs, and to impose "hefty fines" on their owners. In the nineteenth century, landowners discouraged the keeping of these swine . This, combined with the increasing import of other breeds from the Scottish mainland, resulted in a dwindling grice population, and by the 1930s the breed was extinct. The legacy of grice remains, however. The wild bulb squill is known locally as "grice's onions" because it was a favourite food of the swine. In 2006 curators at the Shetland Museum and Archives commissioned a taxidermist to recreate a grice from the stuffed body of an immature wild boar. As no-one alive had seen a grice, the accuracy of the model relied on descriptions in "published sources ... investigated artefact and archaeological findings". The model grice went on public display in spring 2007.
  • Le grice est une race de cochon domestique originaire des Shetland et aujourd'hui disparues. C'était un cochon de petite taille, très agressif avec ses petits défenses. Il disparait au cours du Modèle:S, lorsque ce cochon particulièrement vorace commence à connaître la concurrence d'autres races étrangères.
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  • Das Grice war eine primitive Rasse von Hausschweinen, die in ihrer Verbreitung auf die schottischen Shetlandinseln begrenzt war. Es handelte sich um eine dem Wildschwein nahe stehende Rasse, die aber körperlich sehr klein war. Die Tiere waren für ihre Aggressivität bekannt, wiesen unter anderem kleine Hauer, einen hohen, gebogenen Rücken sowie eine Haarbürste entlang des Längsstrichs auf. Die Schweinerasse war den klimatischen Bedingungen der Shettlands gut angepasst.
  • The grice was a type of swine found in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and in Ireland. It became extinct, surviving longest in the Shetland Isles, where it disappeared in the late nineteenth century. It was also known as the Highland, Hebridean or Irish pig. Accounts from the early 19th century suggest the grice was an aggressive animal with small tusks, an arched back, and a coat of stiff dark bristles over a fleece of wool.
  • Le grice est une race de cochon domestique originaire des Shetland et aujourd'hui disparues. C'était un cochon de petite taille, très agressif avec ses petits défenses. Il disparait au cours du Modèle:S, lorsque ce cochon particulièrement vorace commence à connaître la concurrence d'autres races étrangères.
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