Mineral deficiency? Or is it toxicity?

[Nanno]

Dave, you stated in another thread that you wanted to look into the link between alfalfa and mineral deficiencies. You might take a look at the two articles I linked in the first post. Since your goats are dry lotted, you have the perfect set-up to do an experiment. You could feed your normal alfalfa diet to one group of goats and try giving half or two-thirds high quality grass hay with alfalfa to another group and see what difference it makes. I love what alfalfa does for our milk production, but I think I need to balance it out with more grass to keep from having another copper/selenium crisis next spring, especially since my goats have free access to our molybdenum-rich pasture.