The demand for both lambs and hoggets was very strong and the highest price paid for a pen of lambs was E128.
Most of the hoggets were in lamb, so I'm also at the loss of next year's lambs.
The short-term threat to returns is coming from a continuing strong supply of competitively priced British hoggets, the increasing presence of French Lacune lambs on the market and the arrival shortly of Spanish lamb.
The entry of 1,700 ewes was similar overall to previous years but with more older sheep than hoggets.
I keep most of my lambs for a whole year, and slaughter them in their second spring, when they are traditionally known as hoggets.
The scarcity of Spring lamb has increased demand at the factories for hoggets.
Higher numbers of hoggets in both Britain and Ireland have ensured well supplied markets with this product.
As a result, a lower lamb crop should result in 2004 but extra hoggets should be available in the first quarter arising from the carryover.
They said hoggets were now gone out of the system and the supermarkets have changed over to spring lamb.
The throughput of ewe hoggets at the factories has been much higher than was expected, leading to speculation as to the effect on the breeding flock for future years and a likelihood of strong demand for breeding hoggets this autumn.
Not the obvious choice when thinking about lamb in spring, but hogget has much more flavour than the much-hyped early spring lamb, which, born in winter, may not have had a chance to munch on much grass before taking a trip to the butcher.
He duly purchased 20 hoggets and walked them home with £2 change for his mother.
‘Even taking account of the impact of decoupling and the increase in hogget sales to date, lamb supplies for the remainder of the year will be tighter than last year’.
1.1NZ A lamb between weaning and first shearing.
〈新西兰〉（断奶后未剪过毛的）羊羔
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The three-year research project has found that grazing hoggets on saltbush, supplemented with barley, raised the vitamin E content of meat from 2.5 to 6.5 milligrams per kilogram.
He dropped the ewe count back to 750 and grazed 200 hoggets. 750 ewes at that time was regarded as an economic unit.
Researchers in Cowra are gathering the most comprehensive data ever assembled on growth and meat quality for lambs growing into hoggets.
Origin
Late Middle English (applied also to a young boar): from hog+ -et1.