One of the most precious meats is lambHowever, there are many doubts among buyers about their different denominations. To start talking about the mutton, we must clarify something prior. What is called carnero is adult male and adult female is the sheep.
Sheep usually give birth once or twice a year, her pregnancy lasts five months and most deliveries are simple. Depending on the breeds or crosses they can be double and even triples.
When the lambs, if they are not bred for sheep or rams, their fate will be for meat. Among the different types of lamb we highlight the following four.
Lamb meat typology
Suckling lamb
El suckling lamb It is a lamb that is not more than six weeks old. She has not stopped breastfeeding yet and her weight is not more than eight kilos. It's a meat very tender and juicy, almost fat-free and pale pink in color.
Recental Lamb
This type of lamb it is sacrificed around three months. The lamb has not gone out to graze, its diet has been based on milk and some cereals or starter feed. His weight is around twelve kilos. With some age and lower weight is the lamb, which is usually raised in Aragon.
Paschal lamb
It is a lamb older than four months but less than a year. This is slaughtered when the lamb weighs around 25 kg. His mutton it is redder and with a more intense flavor. It has some more fat which provides it with greater flavor and appeal according to which dishes. It is an animal that has had a diet of grass, forage and feed or cereals.
Lambs with weights higher than those mentioned above are also usually slaughtered in countries with Halal tradition or simply very rich in grasses. They prefer redder meats and carcasses of greater weight. All this leads to types of cut of mutton different that in following articles we will comment.
Finally, it is important to mention the kid, that has nothing to do with him lamb. Faced with possible confusion, the kid is the baby of the goat. It is usually sacrificed before going out to graze with a weight around eight kilos. Is a very tender meat, since their diet has basically been milk.
