I am highlighting one breed just to back up my original point that there are many different breeds of sheep, and even within a breed there is an element of nature versus nurture in terms of taste. Some of the local breed mentioned live in open pasture, some live on craggy heather laden hillside affecting not only diet but exercise. Fortunately given I live on a small island the distance from pasture to plate is very small, even transporting live animals hundreds of miles can be stress inducing and affect flavour so there are many variables.
Then to put it in to context there are between 60 and 90 different breeds of sheep in the UK alone notwithstanding only a handful predominate, that's a heck of a lot of legs of lamb to try!
Manx Loaghtan’s are a primitive breed of sheep originating on the Isle of Man off the North West coast of England and were numerous across the island historically, but had fallen dramatically by the 1950s.The breed is from the same Northern short-tailed primitive group of breeds as the Shetland and Soay breeds and is ‘
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