Lamb, hogget, and mutton, generically sheep meat, are the meat of domestic sheep, Ovis aries. A sheep in its first year is a lamb and its meat is also lamb. The meat from sheep in their second year is hogget. Older sheep meat is mutton.
Is lamb considered meat?
Lamb is a type of red meat from domesticated sheep that are less than a year old. Most lamb is brought to market at around 6 to 8 months of age.
What is the difference between meat and lamb?
The Oxford dictionary defines lamb as 'a young sheep', or 'meat from a young sheep', while mutton is defined as 'meat from a fully grown sheep'. Meat from a sheep between the ages of one month and one year is served as lamb, while sheep older that one year is served as mutton.
Is lamb an animal or meat?
lamb, live sheep before the age of one year and the flesh of such an animal. Mutton refers to the flesh of the mature ram or ewe at least one year old; the meat of sheep between 12 and 20 months old may be called yearling mutton.
Is lamb the same as beef?
However, these terms are not interchangeable. Mutton or hogget is the meat of fully grown sheep, usually two and three years of age, respectively, while lamb is the meat of a sheep younger than the age of one. Beef is the meat of older cattle: domesticated cows or bulls. The meat of young cattle is called veal.
