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Loaghtan is farmed for its meat on the Isle of Man, with only two principal farms on the island producing it. There are now many holdings on the UK mainland that also breed Loaghtans, including some farms with over 100 ewes: for example the Fowlescombe Flock in Devon. This gourmet meat is highly
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Loaghtan is a small sheep, with no wool on their dark brown faces and legs. The sheep have short tails and are fine-boned. In the past century the sheep's colour has stabilised as "moorit", that is shades between fawn and dark reddish brown, though the colour bleaches in the sun. Manx
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Loaghtans graze, they crop and trample the grass. This enables the birds to reach surface-active and soil insects. Also, the dung the sheep leave draws beetles and fly larvae. These insects in turn are a resource for the birds when the ground is hard or other insects are scarce.
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1660:Norfolk Grey
1537:Anglo-Nubian
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886:Irish Moiled
864:Dual purpose
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1685:Scots Dumpy
1645:Modern Game
1635:Indian Game
1494:Small White
1489:Small Black
1416:Large White
1411:Large Black
1391:British Lop
1340:South Devon
1251:Wensleydale
1186:Oxford Down
1136:Hill Radnor
1111:Exmoor Horn
1101:Dorset Horn
1096:Dorset Down
1066:Clun Forest
970:Blue Albion
937:Tory Island
817:Welsh Black
807:South Devon
792:Lincoln Red
734:Beef cattle
518:2 September
412:Jacob sheep
271:Calf of Man
161:Isle of Man
76:Horn status
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1799:Categories
1690:Scots Grey
1459:Cumberland
1221:Shropshire
1201:Rough Fell
1141:Kerry Hill
947:White Park
472:required.)
451:"loaghtan"
424:References
344:the jersey
221:Appearance
196:lugh dhoan
157:Ovis aries
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66:Meat, wool
1728:Orpington
1723:Aylesbury
1675:Orpington
1381:Berkshire
1292:Hebridean
1275:Primitive
1241:Teeswater
1236:Swaledale
1226:Southdown
1156:Llanwenog
1076:Dalesbred
1056:Cambridge
925:Primitive
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705:Livestock
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1743:Shetland
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1680:Rosecomb
1607:Chickens
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1431:Tamworth
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1106:Easycare
1071:Cotswold
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906:Red Poll
901:Pembroke
845:Guernsey
835:Ayrshire
787:Highland
782:Hereford
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582:Archived
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492:21 April
390:See also
352:pullover
302:spinners
286:heritage
241:Products
184:Hebrides
180:Scotland
165:Loaghtyn
1630:Ixworth
1625:Dorking
1595:Poultry
1451:Extinct
1322:Extinct
1282:Boreray
1231:Suffolk
1206:Ryeland
1151:Lincoln
1061:Cheviot
957:Extinct
631:28 July
366:Ecology
348:knitted
317:viscous
313:lanolin
306:weavers
169:Loghtan
1738:Magpie
1700:Sussex
1640:Legbar
1374:Extant
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722:Cattle
372:chough
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333:Jersey
323:Jersey
300:Craft
215:Jersey
194:words
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1763:Geese
1710:Ducks
1572:Pygmy
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1469:Grice
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