The study was carried out in Atiba Local Government Area of Oyo State,
and it involved the villages of Oya tutu, Agbakin, Oba – Kayeja, Ikolaba and Eleegbo.
A survey was conducted to establish an inventory of medicinal plants and the common
poultry management practices used in the management of diseases and parasites. Fifty
structured questionnaires were distributed to randomly selected poultry rearers across the
five villages revealed that the ingredients used in this indigenous practices include seeds,
leaves, fruit juice etc. The results of this study showed that the major causes of losses
were diseases, predation and a combination of diseases, parasites and predation. In this
study, 68% of the rearers used local treatment, 2% used veterinary medicine while 26%
used both local and veterinary medicine for treatment of poultry diseases.