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Hope this isn't a daft question, but can you tell the difference between mutton and hogget visually? Does the meat darken with age? I'm planning to send two 16month old shetland hoggs away with 2 of my ewes (3 and 4 yo), and wondered whether I need to ask the slaughterhouse to process them separately.
milliebecks, I would ask the slaughterhouse to ensure that their numbers are kept, and that the butcher cut them and bag them in accordance with those numbers. You very probably wont be able to tell the hoggets from the muttons (grammar???) unless their identified separately by their numbers.
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