Australia’s new definition of lamb — what you need to know

19th June 2019

The definition of lamb is changing in Australia – from 1 July 2019.

The old definition of lamb was ‘A female, castrate or entire male that has 0 permanent incisor teeth’.

The new definition from 1st July is ‘an ovine animal that:

is under 12 months of age; or
does not have any permanent incisor teeth in wear.’

This means a lamb is able to cut one or both of its permanent central incisor teeth, as long as they are not in wear.

Full details here.

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