[Salamander]

“High quality dairy hay” would actually be not good for goats.
They can get sick from more than a tiny bit of alfalfa.
It’s too rich.
The poorer the hay, the better.
I buy “crap hay” from the local hardware store and apparently, it’s from somebody who mows their wild pasture every so often.
Full of weeds and scrub.
The goats love it.
*Once*, I had to get them “real hay” and they refused to eat it.
Goats like weedy junk nothing else wants to eat.

The saying is “A goat eating grass is a starving goat.”

[goat granny]

We had one acre of alfalfa and they loved it...the best part of it was they would eat it down, we'd lock them out and the alfalfa would continue to grow...could get 2 good feedings and the 3rd one would only be 1/2 as high, had a little timothy with it. But the rest of the pastures were wild grown, It use to be a dairy farm years before we bought it so most of the graze was good....good feed gives good mohair at shearing time. The elevator was given my receipt for grain and they and our one cow got grained once a day. Maybe it depends on the breed of goat.... Weird was when the timothy would get seed, they quit eating it...