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Somaliland is rich in livestock - its fat-tailed sheep and camels are prized in Gulf states.

Mary Ellen McComb learned this lesson the hard way when she adopted two fat-tailed sheep to keep the weeds down at her Northridge home in 1993.

Mostly, he knows he can’t get his hands on dumba, the cooking fat carved from the lumpy rump of the fat-tailed sheep.

Great herds of camels, and flocks of big fat-tailed sheep, varying in colour from Vandyke brown to golden auburn, camels carrying fodder, and tribesmen building it into great stacks, round which, but seven feet off, they place fences of a reed which is abundant in swampy places, gave life and animation.

A flock of black goats and fat-tailed sheep, mingled together, was scattered over the plain, though where they could find sustenance in such a desert, Heaven alone knew.