From Ellis Peters's The Rose Rent page 91 (the sheriff, Hugh Beringar, is speaking):
'He's off back to the hills before night. It seems he has some hoggets up there with a rot of the feet, he and his man came back only to get a supply of the wash to treat them.'
Apparently a hogget is a yearling sheep, and hog can mean a young sheep before its first shearing.
Bingley
I think there's another term, too, for this 'hogget'...but I can't recall it right now.
and also the name of the sheep farmer in "Babe". excepting with two T's... Bah-ram-ewe...
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0112431
psstt.....eta, wasn't that the password? I love Babe. Yes.
Apparently a hogget is a yearling sheep, and hog can mean a young sheep before its first shearing.I jus' knowed them Kiwis wuz involved in the inception of all this hogwashery somehow!
psstt.....eta, wasn't that the password?yeah, but notice I didn't give the whole thing...
Hate to tell you this, Juan, but Babe was pure Australian, through and through. Try Chicken Run, too.
A lamb is a lamb until its first birthday (which 60% of lambs in Zild don't get to celebrate - awwwwwwww!), it's a hogget for its second year (and is at its best eating then, but the consumers of the world are impatient beggars), is also called a two-tooth during that period too, is a four-tooth, six-tooth and eight-tooth roughly annually up to about four years old and is then mutton ....
Hate to tell you this, Juan, but Babe was pure Australian, through and through. Try Chicken Run, too.Ackshually®, Cap, I was alluding to the sheep.
Jaun, don'tcha just love it when a Kiwi displays an intimate knowledge of young sheep, and then claims you don't know what you're talking about?!
love ya, Cap!
It's not the young sheep we go for, Helen, it's their mothers!
