Mara Mobile Veterinary Unit

Category: Livestock | Date: Mar 24 2007 | By: admin

Maasai are serious believer of veterinary drugs. They are very much into tetracycline and truly believe that Adamycine and Teramycine are solution to everything. If the cattle are coughing, adamycine must be the answer. If the cattle are not eating well, adamycine would take care of the appetite problem. If the cattle are limping a little, adamycine would definitely stop the limping. Yes, in the Maasai land, adamycine is the answer to everything. People here inject adamycine to cattle as if animal is suffering from tetracycline deficiency… My vet friends call this syndrome ‘adamosis’ or ‘teramosis’. This belief is the major contributing factor to development of tetracycline resistance in this area. ‘Please do not inject adamycine just because the cattle is limping!’, I exclaim. Then I spend the next one hour trying to explain why adamycine no longer working like it used to do in the past.