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.
I live in Michigan and it has no selenium in the ground and if Angora's don't get it, they get a wasting disease and will die. Our baby kids got a shot of Bose before a week old,(injectable selenium) it was part of my receipt for their grain and they had it free will in each room in the barn. It is a salt that without it in the earth, plants don't have it...a lot like iodine is put in salt because many area's of the country iodine is absent in the earth....One of our friends had a kid born with wasting disease, couldn't stand on his back legs, not enough muscle. Other parts of the US don't have to have it added to feed...her kid was the only one I knew of that was born with wasting disease. Many years ago and I don't remember the outcome of the kid...
My flock didn't have a steady diet of alfalfa, but when we opened that one field, they all seem to find it quick. We also had to clear the fields of Burdock, that poisoned them. I was told that and took the person at their word. I sure do miss my farm...