Table 8 Livestock ailments recorded in the study area (Soro District)
No | Identified livestock aliments | Vernacular name (Hadiyissa/Had.)/Few in Amharic (Amh.) | Affected Livestock Type | Ailment Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Foot and Mouth Disease/Ailment, FMD/FMA (it removes hooves from cattle) | Anjichcho/nidifa | Infects bovines (cattle) | Dermatological inflammation |
2 | Lumpy Skin Disease/Ailment (LSD/A) | Loophphi jabbo, ye qoda gurubiribita (Amh.) | Infects bovines | |
3 | Blackleg (inflammation of skeletal and cardiac muscles, severe toxemia and high mortality) | Moggolle’i/hafachchi jabbo | Infects bovines | |
4 | PPR (Peste des petits ruminants- ailment of goats which creates wound infection around the mouth).; shoat pox | Fanxaaxa/kurkusso’o | Mostly attacks both sheep and goats | |
5 | Epizootic lymphangitis | Gammaam tusha | Equines (large numbers of livestock of horses, donkeys and mules) | |
6 | Bat urine ailment (cause skin ulceration) | Cii’i xisso, yewof beshita (Amh.) | Attacks all livestock | |
7 | Mastitis (breast-dermatologicao) | Anuu’n jabbo, ye desta bashita (Amh.) | Bovines | |
8 | Actinomycosis | Korossa/gergeeda | Bovines | |
9 | Skin wound (freshly skin cutting) | Xiige’oo mada/omara | Attacks all livestock | |
10 | Sore-with pus | Maraam omara | Attacks all livestock | |
11 | Skin ailment | Omachchi jabbo | Attacks all livestock | |
12 | Back sore | Afa’l gambaxa | Attacks equines: horses, donkeys and mules | |
13 | Livestock tumour (venign tumour/external tumour) | La’l xeenxira | Infects bovines, equines | |
14 | Swelling body | Orachchi dashshimma | Bovines | |
15 | Anthrax | Xiinxichcho, abassanga (Amh.) | Infects bovines, equines, sheep | Gastro-intestinal |
16 | Livestock trypanomiasis (due to bite of tsetse fly) | Sute’e, gandi (Amh.) | Infects both bovines and equines | |
17 | Coccidiosis | Xiiga edaakkoo aadora | Infects poultry | |
18 | Fowl typhoid | Cii’i soko’i gaayyo’o | Infects poultry/cholera | |
19 | Livestock hepatitis/jaundice (liver ailment cause yellow skin (Ectruse) | Afa’l jabo | Attacks all livestock | |
20 | Diarrhoea | Alooyya te’im godaphphi aadite | Attacks all livestock | |
21 | NCD/A (New Castle Disease/Ailment) | Kembesha, feangil (Amh.) | Poultry ailment | |
22 | Acidiosis (bloat) | Godabduubimma/quruuro’o | Attacks all livestock | |
23 | Faciolosis | Mure’e, loomme/ wocwoca | Bovines, sheep and goats | |
24 | Actinobacillosis (wooden tongue) | Soorgassa/allabo mooradisoo jabbo | Bovines | |
25 | Telleriosis/Anaplasmiosis (spleen enlargement)-tick-borne ailment) | Hilleeffi jabbo/suruulli-jabbo | Bovines and sheep | |
26 | Toxicity (poisonous) | Marzi yoo mutaano itimmi jabbo | Poisonous bovines, sheep and goats | |
27 | Abdominal pain/abdominal ache | Bashsha’na | Bovines and sheep | |
28 | Constipation | Shilli gokka | Bovines, sheep, goats | |
29 | Nasal bote (parasitic leech) | Urulla | Attacks all livestock | Respiratory |
30 | Asthma (stenosis of respiratory organ) | Saallaaqa/shiinqa | Equines | |
31 | Pasteurellosis (livestock TB) | Suqqo’i/qadafa’l jabbo | Attacks bovines | |
32 | Aspiration pneumonia | Siniqa | Bovines, sheep and goats | |
33 | Insects’ infection | Sa’n kochcha’na | Bovines, sheep, goats | |
34 | Livestock mites, flea and lices (mange mite/otitis) | Baalqaanca, ibiiba, cibe’e | Attacks all livestock | Ecto-parasitic |
35 | Babesiosis (liver ailment) | Waadamuuncho | Attacks all livestock | Endo-parasitic) (protozoan) |
36 | Cysticercus (bovis, ovis/livestock ascariasis) | Hensheeshsha | Bovines, goat, sheep | Endo-parasitic |
37 | Rabies (dogs, cats, foxes, wolves, insectivorous and fruit-eating bats) | Machchaaru wish jabbo | Attacks all livestock | Neurologic |
38 | Snake bite | Hamash qasimma | Attacks all livestock | |
39 | Listeriosis | Horoore jawwaa’aa do’isimma, azurit (Amh.) | Attacks all livestock | |
40 | Tetanus | Teetaanoosa | Attacks all livestock | |
41 | Conjunctivitis (eye pain) | Illi xisso | Attacks all livestock | Orbital |
42 | African horse sickness (para-orbital eye lob enlargement/inflammation (AHS) | Ille fugoo jabbo | Infects equines | |
43 | Trauma (injury, fracture, broken bones, muscles deformities, blood accumulation in the body) | Aphphixximma/madimma | All forcefully heated livestock that cause blood accumulation | Orthopaedics |
44 | Arthritis (gouge or mondy-morning ailment) | Luquc/hoong jabbo | Mostly attacks equines/horses, donkeys and mules | Musculo skeletal |
45 | Reproduction problem | ____ | Bovines | Infertility, fertility or unable to fertility |
46 | Retained placenta (foetal placenta membrane remain) | Maqqeer gatimmi jabbo | Bovines, sheep, goats, horses and donkeys | Placental |
47 | Michi | Michcha | Attacks all livestock | Fibril illness |
48 | Dingetegn | Xokka/qasimmi jabbo | Attacks all livestock | Any aliment |
49 | Evil eye | Manni ille | Attacks all livestock | Other |
50 | Evil spirit | Goromota | Attacks all livestock | Other |