Assessment of Plant and Chemical Poisoning In Livestock in Central Ethiopia

Livestock are facing various life threatening hazards notably infectious (parasitic, bacterial, viral, protozoal, fungal) and noninfectious like metabolic diseases, poisoning and other miscellaneous origin. Ethiopian people especially farmers and traditional animal healers have been using traditional methods to treat both human and their livestock diseases for generations. Traditional medicine is still widely practiced in areas where modern health care services are limited [1]. Traditional animal healers can use plant parts like seeds to treat cattle with abdominal distension, leaves for different treatment of diseases and other parts of the plants [1,2]. Though Ethiopia is rich in its flora of about many species of vascular plants, only few of the families of flowering plants are clemency used are known to have medicinal properties. Ethiopia also possesses three traditionally recognized agro climatic zones. These are Kola (a hot zone of 500-1500 m above sea level), Weina Dega (intermediate Zone of 1500 m and 2500 m), and Dega (a cold zone usually cited as being 250 m above sea level). These ecological zones have favorable to various species of plants and animals. Apart from the globally listed ones, therefore, some factors are inherent in Ethiopia to contribute to phytotoxicity [3].