Hard to get hogget or mutton except from specialist farm shops/butchets. Only ever see "lamb" not nearly as tasty in casseroles and stews 
I was once offered a sheep by a friend but I suspected it had died of old age so not tempted!
Should be nice and tasty 
Although we are are pretty much self sufficient in fruit, vegetables, chicken, eggs and firewood, age and infirmity now prevents us from keeping pigs or sheep. Thanks to the bartering system, we are still able to stock our freezer with meat from our small holding friends. DH does machinery repairs and I do a bit of garden design specialising in hardy perennials.
DD1 has now taken up the baton and has been helping out at a local spa which is also a smallholding. She has been offered a hogget (already butchered) for the freezer so we're going halves with her.
DH is now defrosting the chest freezer to make room for it. Oh, the things we freeze that never get used and fall to the bottom....So far I have thrown away, squashed bags of garlic butter, chicken livers that are probably four years old, left over casserole sauces, the scrapings of cooked chicken carcasses (for the dogs) blocks of parmesan cheese, little balls of pastry (why? 
) bags of filter coffee, odds and sods of bread and other unidentified frozen objects.
I now have enough room for half an Aberdeen Angus!
Looking forward to the hogget though as it's not something I've seen in the local butchers.
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