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Award Winning, Rare Breed Organic Lamb - Langley Chase Organic Farm: homepage
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The Manx Loghtan is one of the oldest and most striking breeds of sheep in the UK. It is fine boned and late maturing, producing a dark full bodied meat with distinctive taste and flavour. As well as being tastier than commercial lamb it is also healthier. The Scottish Agricultural Colleges found the Manx Loghtan to be lower in both fat and cholesterol than commercial breeds.
The Manx Loghtan is termed a primitive rare breed. (See below for the importance of rare breeds). It is characterised by impressive horns and a dark brown fleece. Four horned rams are particularly striking. It has been around, unchanged, since the Iron Age and is thought to have been introduced into the UK by the Vikings. But, bone records from archeological sites indicate it was already here.
The breed takes its name from the colour of its fleece, derived from two Manx words Lugh (mouse) and Dhoan (brown) or from Lhost dhoan (burnt brown). The lambs are born jet black acquiring the distinctive fleece by the time they are weaned.
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