RARE Manx sheep with four horns will be a common sight on Jersey’s north coast from the autumn, when a herd is being brought over to graze in Mourier Valley.
The initiative to bring in 20 pregnant ewes and a ram of the rare Manx Loaghtan breed of sheep has come from the National Trust for Jersey, who want to reintroduce the practice of coastal grazing.
The trust have chosen the Manx Loaghtan – a breed which has many ewes with four horns and some rams with six or seven – because they are able to thrive on poor vegetation and in harsh conditions.
The brown sheep are also the closest surviving breed to that of the now extinct Jersey sheep which thrived on the Island’s coastal areas until the 18th century.
