Breed really matters, as is said in the article. My wife and I raise Katahdins, a meat breed (one of the few sheep that shed instead of having a fleece that nee

Breed really matters, as is said in the article. My wife and I raise Katahdins, a meat breed (one of the few sheep that shed instead of having a fleece that needs to be sheared off). We've eaten three year old ewes, which is pretty solidly mutton. They taste, to my palate, exactly like lamb does. It's my understanding that the taste comes from lanolin, which is of course the thing that makes wool so awesome. If you have a wool breed on your hands, lanolin will be higher.