Manx sheep

A striking unusual milky coffee coloured-sheep, often with four horns and sometimes as many as six. This primitive breed is originally from the Isle of Man. Their fleece self-sheds but they can also be shorn.

Inquisitive and intelligent with an active disposition, Manx sheep have very few problems with their feet or with fly strike (a nasty illness caused by green bottle flies that can prove fatal to sheep).

Various reports seem to suggest a link between the presence of Manx sheep on their traditional coastal ranges and the numbers of chough which rely on the presence of insects within dung when the ground is otherwise too hard to probe with their bills.