 A reconstruction of a grice | |
| Conservation status | Extinct |
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| Country of origin | Scotland |
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The grice was a breed of swine found in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and in Ireland.[1][2] It became extinct, surviving the longest in the Shetland Isles, where it disappeared sometime between the middle of the 19th century and the 1930s. It was also known as the Highland, Hebridean or Irish pig.[2][3]
- ^ Hall, Stephen J. G.; Clutton-Brock, Juliet (1989), Two Hundred Years of British Farm Livestock, British Museum (Natural History), p. 203, ISBN 0-565-01077-8
- ^ a b Culley, George, (1807), Observations on Livestock, pub Wilkie, Robinson et al, p 176
- ^ Macdonald, J (1810), General view of the agriculture of the Hebrides, or Western Isles of Scotland, pub Richard Phillips et al, Edinburgh, p 486