Editing Shetland (section)

=== Domesticated animals ===

[[File:Chilling Out MG 9137 (34618081391).jpg|thumb|290px|Shetland ponies]]

{{Main|Shetland animal breeds}}

There is a variety of indigenous breeds, of which the diminutive [[Shetland pony]] is probably the best known, as well as being an important part of the Shetland farming tradition. The first written record of the pony was in 1603 in the Court Books of Shetland and, for its size, it is the strongest of all the horse breeds.<ref name="spsbs">[http://www.shetlandponystudbooksociety.co.uk/ "Breed History"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120101094954/http://www.shetlandponystudbooksociety.co.uk/ |date=1 January 2012 }}, Shetland Pony Studbook Society, Retrieved 11 May 2012</ref><ref>[http://www.equine-world.co.uk/about_horses/shetland_pony.htm "Shetland Pony"] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718154046/http://www.equine-world.co.uk/about_horses/shetland_pony.htm|date=18 July 2011}}, Equine World, Retrieved 20 July 2009</ref> Others are the [[Shetland Sheepdog]] or "Sheltie", the endangered [[Shetland cattle]]<ref>[http://shetlandcattle.org.uk/ "Home"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110827042359/http://shetlandcattle.org.uk/ |date=27 August 2011 }}, Shetland Cattle Breeders Association, Retrieved 20 July 2009</ref> and [[Shetland goose]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/Geese/BRKShetland.html|title=Shetland Geese|publisher=feathersite.com|access-date=22 October 2008|archive-date=17 September 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080917075346/http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/Geese/BRKShetland.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>[http://www.albc-usa.org/cpl/waterfowl/shetland.html "Shetland Goose"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110818174452/http://www.albc-usa.org/cpl/waterfowl/shetland.html |date=18 August 2011 }}, American Livestock Breeds Conservancy, Retrieved 20 July 2009</ref> and the [[Shetland sheep]] which is believed to have originated prior to 1000 AD.<ref>[http://www.sheep101.info/breedsS.html#Shetland "Sheep Breeds — S–St"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721232948/http://www.sheep101.info/breedsS.html#Shetland |date=21 July 2011 }}, Sheep101.info, Retrieved 1 May 2009</ref> The [[Grice]] was a breed of semi-domesticated pig that had a habit of attacking lambs. It became extinct sometime between the middle of the nineteenth century and the 1930s.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/6155172.stm|title=Extinct Island Pig Spotted Again|publisher=BBC News Online|date=17 November 2006|access-date=1 January 2007|archive-date=14 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130314163713/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/6155172.stm|url-status=live}}</ref>