Mystery-Virus/Rickettsial Infection/Deficiencies?

[Nanno]

I recently read about alfalfa causing a secondary deficiency, did switching to grass primarily resolve the deficiencies? I feel like it's important to provide adequate calcium to young bucks and wethers but after all this mineral research I have fear regardless of what I do.

You might have read about secondary deficiencies in the post I made a couple of months ago which I've linked below. I have the same problem where the more I research something, the more I fear doing it wrong. The fact is, we may all be overthinking and overcomplicating things. A healthy diet should be balanced, and a pure alfalfa diet is not balanced. Calcium is good, but just because something is good doesn't necessarily mean more is better. Cuzco ate plain grass hay his whole life and always looked healthy with good weight, a lustrous coat, and strong hooves. He had access to a trace mineral horse block. I never knew there was such a thing as loose minerals until we'd had Cuzco for ten years. I never wormed him because I didn't know what to use for goats and he didn't look like he had parasites. That goat never got sick, and there were many times when he probably should have! While it's possible we may have simply been lucky, it's a good reminder that goats can thrive on care that is often considered less-than-optimal.  

Here's my thread about alfalfa and molybdenum poisoning: 
http://www.packgoatcentral.com/forums/sh...p?tid=2156

There are links in that thread to two articles about the topic in regards to cattle on alfalfa diets. I don't want to derail this thread too much, especially since I think a discussion about this would be more beneficial to others if kept in the health section where it can more easily be found in the future, so I'll make my reply to Dave there.