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Lamb
Lamb and mutton is the meat attained from the killing of domestic sheep. The meat of a sheep in its first year is lamb, the meat of juvenile sheep older than a year is called hogget, the meat of an adult sheep is called mutton.
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shearing
Meat products; Lamb
Cutting of the fleece of a sheep, normally done in two pieces by skilled shearers. A sheep may be said to have been either sheared or shorn, depending on dialect.
scrapie
Meat products; Lamb
A wasting disease of sheep and goats, a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE, like BSE of cattle) and believed to be caused by a prion. Efforts have been made in some countries to breed for ...
rouseabout
Meat products; Lamb
The shedhands who pick up fleeces after they have been removed during shearing.
sheep scab
Meat products; Lamb
A type of mange in sheep, a skin disease caused by attack by the sheep scab mite Psoroptes ovis, a psoroptid mite.
rooing
Meat products; Lamb
The removing the fleece by hand-plucking. Done once a year in late spring, when the fleece begins to moult naturally, especially in some breeds, such as Shetlands.
