Lamb and mutton

Lamb and mutton, collectively sheep meat (or sheepmeat), is meat from the domestic sheep, Ovis aries. It is generally divided into three types: lamb, from sheep in their first year; hogget, from sheep in their second; and mutton, from older sheep. The name "mutton" comes from French languagemouton, sheep. Lamb is the most expensive of the three types, and in recent decades, sheep meat has increasingly only been retailed as "lamb", sometimes stretching the accepted distinctions given above.