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Any kind of animal flesh that is eaten or sold as a marketable product.

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hefting

Meat products; Lamb

The instinct in some breeds of keeping to a certain heft (a small local area) throughout their lives. Allows different farmers in an extensive landscape such as moorland to graze ...

guard llama

Meat products; Lamb

A llama (usually a castrated male) kept with sheep as a guard. The llama will defend the flock from predators such as foxes and dogs.

greasy wool

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The wool as it has been shorn from the sheep and therefore not yet washed or cleaned.

graziers' alert

Meat products; Lamb

A cold-weather warning issued by the weather bureau to sheep graziers.

gimmer

Meat products; Lamb

A young female sheep, usually before her first lamb (especially used in the north of England and Scotland).

foot rot

Meat products; Lamb

The nfectious pododermatitis, a painful hoof disease commonly found in sheep (also goats and cattle), especially when pastured on damp ground.

folding

Meat products; Lamb

The confining sheep (or other livestock) onto a restricted area for feeding, such as a temporarily fenced part of a root crop field, especially when done repeatedly onto a ...

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