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...
Apparently Pygmies and Nigerian Dwarves can’t take it.
It’ll founder them, same as too much grain.
They’re built to live on nearly nothing, I reckon.
The only time I’ve bought them alfalfa was when one was very sick and rundown.
He got one tiny slab of it, every other day, to build him up fast.
He was really old.
He just passed away on the 20th.
:-\
Had to hustle and get Spike a new little friend before she grieved to death.