It is said that when seeing a very beautiful girl, the question always arises: “Natural beauty or beautification?” It seems that this is what should be applied in Syria when going to buy a “sheep” or “cow”, especially if it is thick with hair and heavy in meat and weight. Beautification in Syria It's not just limited to humans.

In this regard, the markets of Raqqa Governorate in northern Syria invented a new trick for commercial fraud ahead of the Eid al-Adha season, by performing cosmetic surgeries on sheep with the aim of falsifying their breeds, which led to an unprecedented increase in their prices, while sometimes reaching nearly 300 million liras. Syria per head.

According to the head of the Veterinarians Syndicate in Damascus, Dr. Louay Al-Muhammad, operations are performed to inflate, increase weight, and modify features on sheep to sell them at a higher price, by injecting them with antibiotics to increase their growth, and these practices are usually resorted to by sellers, to become similar to the desirable “Shami” goats, which are considered among the most expensive. Breeds in the world.

According to statements made by one of the livestock traders in Raqqa Governorate to the website, last week witnessed the sale of a ram for more than 222 million Syrian pounds in the village of Suwaydiyah in the Raqqa countryside, and the price of another ram reached 300 million Syrian pounds, but its breeder did not agree to the sale.

Prices vary according to the breeds from which the sheep come. In an attempt to obtain a “sheep” that matches the standards and demand, merchants choose a sheep that resembles the “forester” in appearance, then wash its wool and dye it using one of the types of women’s hair dyes close to the colors of that breed, and then they inject the sheep with "Botox" under the skin of the nose to make it conform to the desired breed, which guarantees huge profits for these traders.