The more an animal eats, the faster it will grow, the amount it can eat will depends on how fast the feed it has already eaten can pass through the digestive system, this depends on how the microbes in the true stomach (rumen) of the animal can quickly digest the feeds.

When animals are fed with old fibrous material like mature grasses materials digestion is low, the animal eat little new feed each day and its growth and production becomes poor as little protein is stored in the body.

Also, the stems of grasses have more of indigestible lignin than the leaves, the proportion of stem increases with age so as the level of indigestible lignin. Elephant grass cut 4 weeks after the previous harvest is almost all leaf but green materials harvested after 10 weeks is 50% stems which contains high proportion of indigestible lignin that reduces digestibility and feed intake which leads to poorer animal performance.

For high performance in the growth and production of livestock it is advisable for the farmers to feed their livestock with nutritive diet that includes young green, leafy grasses that is free of mould which should be supplemented with 1 capful of *livestock-zyme* in a 40litres of water.

Benefits Of Livestock-Zyme For Cattle, Sheep and Goat.

Increases growth
Increases milk production
Increases immune system and enhances disease resistance.
Increases animal carcass meat.
Increases farm profit