Hogget
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Hogget is a farming term that can refer to porcine or ovine young adult animals and may refer to:
- A hogHog-Animals:Other than the Domestic pig, Sus scrofa or Sus scrofa domestica, there are other species commonly called hogs, including:*The Red river hog*The Giant forest hog-Other:* The Hogs, the offensive line of the NFL's Washington Redskins....
. - A live domestic sheepDomestic sheepSheep are quadrupedal, ruminant mammals typically kept as livestock. Like all ruminants, sheep are members of the order Artiodactyla, the even-toed ungulates. Although the name "sheep" applies to many species in the genus Ovis, in everyday usage it almost always refers to Ovis aries...
older than a lamb but younger that one year of age. - The meat from such an animal.
- The woolWoolWool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and certain other animals, including cashmere from goats, mohair from goats, qiviut from muskoxen, vicuña, alpaca, camel from animals in the camel family, and angora from rabbits....
of such an animal. Hogget is the name of the first shearing of a sheep older than 7 months, and is the best wool that animal will ever give. It still has the unsheared lamb's wool, yet it is longer. This is the fleece hand spinners want to use.