RIYADH, Oct 3 (AFP): There is a whiff of sheep dung in the early evening air as the sun drops from sight and Ali Al-Shamrani ponders the market for his animals ahead of Saturday's Eid-Ul-Adha festival.
"This year they are more expensive," he says outside a pen of about 40 Saudi Arabian Naimy-variety sheep, most of them with brown heads and thick dirty-white fleece.
"There aren't too many Naimy this year," says the black-bearded trader, who trucked his animals to the Saudi capital Riyadh early this week from Hafar al-Batin in the country's north, near Iraq.
He and several other traders have set up their animal pens-and tents where they themselves rest-in one of 14 temporary market sites established by authorities in the city of 5.7 million before the Muslim feast of sacrifice.
Fat sheep, fat price for Saudi Eid festivities
FE Team | Published: October 04, 2014 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00
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