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Definition of Hoggets

Hogget
Hogget Hog"get, n. [See Hog, and Hoggerel.] 1. A young boar of the second year. 2. A sheep or colt alter it has passed its first year.

Meaning of Hoggets from wikipedia

- Hogget may refer to: A domestic sheep between one and two years of age The meat from such an animal — see lamb and mutton The wool of such an animal Hoggett...
- from sheep in their first year, hogget, from sheep in their second, and mutton, from older sheep. Generally, "hogget" and "sheep meat" are not used by...
- domesticated for agricultural purposes, sheep are raised for fleeces, meat (lamb, hogget or mutton), and milk. A sheep's wool is the most widely used animal fiber...
- "overnutrition" in management of pregnant ewe hoggets. In a study of Romney and Coopworth ewe hoggets bred to Perendale rams, feeding to approximate...
- young livestock piglet, won at a fair by a local sheep farmer named Farmer Hogget. He has no use for pigs, so his wife intends to fatten up the "little porker"...
- is also called lamb. The meat of a juvenile sheep older than one year is hogget; outside North America this is also a term for the living animal. The meat...
- Merino hoggets being drenched near Walcha, New South Wales...
- James William Mitc**** (12 March 1926, in South Shields – 15 September 2002, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne) was a British writer, prin****lly of crime fiction...
- eastern countries there is a looser use of the term which may include hoggets. Also the meat of younger sheep. Lambing – the process of giving birth...
- Drenching Merino hoggets, Walcha, NSW...