agneau de boucherie

/AHN-yoh duh boo-sheh-REE/
[French] plural agneaux de boucherie

A lamb from around 80 to 130 days, weighing 16 to 25 kg (35 – 55 lbs). During the early phase the animal has a diet of milk, then grass in summer and autumn through to hay and fodder in the winter. The flesh is a little more coloured than that of the agneau de lait, and with a little more flavour.

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