Abstract The paper deals with the ethnography of community based indigenous knowledge and methods of caring for, healing and managing livestock by the Konda Reddi, one of the Primitive Tribal Groups (PTG) in the state of Andhra Pradesh. The paper includes Konda Reddi classification of common livestock ailments, their diagnosis and treatment by the local medicine man, the vejju. It also underlines that reasons for the continuation of herbal treatment and chanting (mantra) therapy among the Reddis, despite the availability of modern medical facilities for the livestock in the tribal areas.