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Agriculture · Q67

Animal Husbandry

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 67

Q67

Meat of sheep is known as

A.
Mutton
Answer
B.
Chicken
C.
Pork
D.
Beef

Answer: Option A

Solution

Answer: Option A
Solution:
Meat of sheep is known as Mutton.
Lamb is 'a young sheep', or 'meat from a young sheep', while mutton is defined as 'meat from a fully grown sheep'.
Lamb, hogget, and mutton, generically sheep meat, are the meat of domestic sheep. A sheep in its first year is a lamb and its meat is also lamb. The meat from sheep in their second year is hogget. Older sheep meat is mutton. Mutton is meat from a sheep over two years old, and has less tender flesh. In general, the darker the colour, the older the animal.