Cattle branding: animal curative or skin destructive? case study around Bako
1998
Gebre-egziabher Gebreyohanes (Ethiopian Agricultural Research Organization, Addis Abeba (Ethiopia))Mulugeta Kebede (Ethiopian Agricultural Research Organization, Addis Abeba (Ethiopia))Gemeda Duguma (Ethiopian Agricultural Research Organization, Addis Abeba (Ethiopia))
A survey was conducted in the Sheboka, Ejaji, Anno, Sire and Jere areas, all within a radius of 35 km from Bako, to see the situation of cattle branding. A total of 12 peasant associations were identified and surveyed. Of a total of 2135 (837 male and 1298 female) cattle observed 16.2% were branded. There was significant difference among the areas surveyed, reasons of branding and site of branding. The highest proportion of branding was around Ejaji (31.1%) while the lowest was around Sire (2.3%). Reasons for branding were black leg (76.5%), eye-related problem (13.0%), swelling and injury (8.1%)and animal identification and others (2.3%). The sites of branding were around eye, shoulder, jaw, thigh, rump, sides of the body and neck. Branding was practiced in all age groups and both sexes, and most of the branding (57.1%) involved more than one part of the body. Branding was preferred to animal clinics by most of the interviewed farmers because the disease they call black leg (Bushoftu) is fatal and does not give time to take animals to clinics which are far from their vicinity, inability of the sick animal to walk a long distance to clinics and financial problems.
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