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Lamb and mutton, collectively sheep meat (or sheepmeat) is one of the most common meats around the world, taken from the domestic sheep, Ovis aries, and generally divided into lamb, 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 consumers ...
The Yearling is a novel by American writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, published in March 1938. [1] It was the main selection of the Book of the Month Club in April 1938. It won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. It was the best-selling novel in the United States in 1938, when it sold more than 250,000 copies.
Hogget, hogg or hog – a young sheep of either sex from about 9 to 18 months of age (until it cuts two permanent teeth); a yearling sheep, as yet unshorn. [6] [7] Also the meat of a hogget. Also teg, old-season lamb, shearling. Hoof-shears – implement similar to secateurs, used to trim the hoofs of sheep.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953) [1] was an American writer who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling—about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn—won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1939 [2] and was later made into a movie of the same name.
Yearling may refer to: Yearling (horse), a horse between one and two years old; The Yearling, a 1938 novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings; The Yearling, 1946 film ...
An "intact" (i.e., not castrated) adult male is called a bull.; A father bull is called a sire with reference to his offspring, such as in the herd book or purebred records.
Weaner is more commonly used for a weaned lamb, calf or pig. [2] A super weaner is an exceptionally large elephant seal which has been nursing from more than one lactating female and weighs considerably more than its peers at weaning age. [3] A weanling horse is a foal that has been weaned, usually between four and six months old.
Rather than being calculated on a precise live mass basis, some estimates of this type have been generalized in tabulations (by species) according to age or sex classes, e.g. mature sheep, 0.2; lamb (weaned to yearling), 0.12; lamb (yearling), 0.15; ram, 0.25. [4] Linear estimation based on body mass or weight.