What is a Hogget?

Mt Benger Mail, 1 April 1914, Page 1

What is a Hogget?

in reply to a question a-- to tke age ai which iambs should be called "hoggets," a practical authority says : "it is not so much a matter of aye as of circumstances, but as a rule the name koggets should be given to iambs when they are from ten to tuelvo months old. They are called hoggets to distinguish them from the next year's lambs. For instance, when lambs drop in July, then the previous iambs must bo called hoggets, or else be railed ' last year lambs.' As soon as hoggets are shorn they are called ' two-tooths/ so that the word hogget is only used for a few months, the imquirer says he linds great dihis district even among sheep-owners versity of opinion upon this matter hi of experience. In his part they often shear their- lambs before they are weaned, mkl he states that some sheep fanners maintain that shorn lamlbp are hoggets evQn while sucking their mothers. Others, again, maintain that if lambs are not shorn in the autumn l hey should be called lambs until after the spring shearing. They will be then about fourteen months' old, and are really two-tooths. If they call them lambs until that age they have no use for the name ' hogget 'at til, but in that case they will for some lime have two lots of lambs on the place, the new crop and the previous crop, and how do they distinguish between them ? For our part wo begin to call lambs hoggets about the beginning of winter, and use that name until the#» are shorn."