please help, most helpful answer gets 10 points. please tell me if this is okay to feed to my bearded dragon??

Question

she is anorexic, and has been for some time now. she appears to be otherwise pretty healthy, with the occasional couple of days that she gets constipated. i have to feed her supplements that i get online, with an eyedropper or a syringe that i slide ino her mouth. and she will eat lettuce and carrots if i slide them into her mouth. every other day or so i offer her bugs, but rarely does she eat them. she does much better with syringe feeding. she is 3 years old.
today i decided to make her a "smoothie". please tell me if she can drink/eat this. i cooked up some carrots, green beans, peas, corn, and broccoli. and i put it into a blender and added water, lettuce, apples, this supplement/apetite booster for reptiles called jumpstart, and a little bit of calcium powder. and i pureed it all together. can she eat all the things listed above??

PLEASE DON'T TELL ME TO FEED HER BUGS!!!! I FREAKIN KNOW THAT!!!!! READ WHERE I SAID "I OFFER HER BUGS BUT RARELY DOES SHE EAT THEM!"

Answer 1

Vegetation will be the second part of your bearded dragons diet. You can find most of these in the produce aisle of a grocery store. The majority of vegetables you feed will be leafy greens. Greens provide moisture as well as nutrients.

Some good choices are:
Collard Greens
Mustard Greens
Leafy Greens
Turnip Tops
Dandelion Greens
Parsley
Coriander
I have read that spinach and Swiss chard contain chemicals that combine with calcium and prevent its absorption, and should be fed sparingly.

Besides leafy greens other fruits and vegetables can be included. Vegetables can include:
Carrots
Green Beans
Celery
Bell Peppers
Squash
Thawed Frozen Mixed Vegetables
Broccoli

Some fruits can include:
Bananas
Grapes
Kiwi
Berries
Apples
Pears
Mango
Stay away from acidic fruits like oranges, and lemons.

These are just a few greens, vegetables, and fruits that you can add into your dragons diet.

All vegetables and fruits should be cut or shred into bite-sized pieces. Leafy greens can either be shred or left in bigger pieces. You can also use frozen vegetables, just make sure they are thoroughly thawed out before using them.

Diet: Insects should be no larger than 1/3 of the size of the head. Supplement with vitamins (once a week) and calcium (the rest of the week). Crickets, mealworms, waxworm and superworms. Also will eat red-tip lettuce, green leafy vegetables such as collard greens and kale, Chinese cabbage, green beans, carrots, corn, peas, broccoli sprouts, sunflower seeds, beans. Also, they love an occasional mouse or rat pinkie for extra protein.

Answer 2

The smoothie if it will work should be fine for her. As I'm sure you know, the lettuce should be dark green leafy lettuces, no iceberg lettuce. Have you tried to see if you can get ahold of any type of already dead insects? You can always put those into the 'smoothie' too, this should help get the bugs into her diet. Have you taken her to the vet to rule out any type of illness. Bearded Dragons are supposed to be really greedy eaters especially when they are young. Also double check for any other issues such as mites, mouth sores, and living conditions (lighting, heat and humidity levels, natural setting,ect. ) Hopefully this will help and if you can get her to eat a smoothie with all of the needed stuff, it certainly is bettter that nothing. Also you dont need to cook it, raw puree would be better for her.

Answer 3

The fact that your bearded dragon is refusing food makes me think that there is something wrong with the care you're giving it. There is no such thing as an anorexic lizard or any other animal except people. Reptiles need special care and everything in the enclosure has to be perfect for them to survive. Instead of forcing your pet to eat and stressing it out even more look at your set up and try to find any mistakes you might have made. The most obvious one being temperature. They need heat to digest their food and get their metabolism going. If the temperature is wrong they wont eat. Here are some good care sheets that you can look at to help you.

http://www.kingsnake.com/gladescs/bearded/
http://www.anapsid.org/bearded.html

If after looking at them you feel that you're set up is correct than there may be something physically wrong with your bearded dragon. That's when you go to a good reptile vet. Good luck.

Answer 4

First of all, what kind of substrate do you have her on? If its sand, it could be that she is compacted. And if that is the case then you need to soak her in warm water. She also could have worms. Look to see if her belly is black.
Secondly, you don't want to cook anything. It IS alright to feed her a smoothie, but when you cook it, all the nutrients that she needs are taken out. Just try to blend it up. Try grapes instead of corn to get it a sweeter smell, and corn also compacts some beardies.
Lastly, what kind of lettuce are you using? Iceburg is deadly to them, no nutrients, and again, compacting. They can't digest it. Use romane or leaf greens. And always use calcium/supplements in any food you use.
Try to make a variety of bugs when you get them. One day get wax worms (they're high in fat), then the next time get superworms, then crickets.
See how that works for you. :)

Answer 5

broccoli is not exceptionally good for them... and if she's not eating it'd be best to get more protien in her first... You can get "bearded dragon dust:insect cricket balancer" or whatever, that touts being a "complete food in itself." I've had some luck mixing the leopard gecko dust with water and electrolyte formula and dropper feeding leopard geckos... You could try adding some of that... I would recommend puree-ing that, a little of the jumpstart, collard greens, and maybe even some pureed crickets.

Answer 6

the only ting in your shake that i wouldnt use is the broccoli but everything else is good i would definitly add some meat in your shake like superworms and waxworms and butterworms these are all fatty as all get out and will help beef your dragon back up. i rescued a dragon that did this a while back the lady that had him kept him on play sand and had no uvb lighting. i put a very strong uvb light on him misted him every day and gave him a bath every other day and hand fed him every day now hes fat as hell and a spoiled brat he wont eat anything unless its out of my hand and eats like a hog will eat 30 superworms a day if i let him. but i usually only let him eat 15 and a good size salad. after your dragon starts to get better from you syringe feeding he should start to eat on its own. superworms by the way are addictive do dragons, they can develop the habbit to only eat them and refuse everything else

Answer 7

Sorry to hear about you dragon....I think your problem is, you been force feeding it for so long , it exoects it....you have to try and reprogram it to feed on its own....Smooties are ok, in the event it goes off feeding for along period of time....Rember though, you can damage the esophgus by doing this too often....Make sure the temperatuer is between 84 and 92 degrees freinhiet..and keep plenty of water in the cage...I hate to say this but contiue with the bugs, you mat also want to try cooked chinken.....They will eat it...Good luck

Answer 8

at that age insects make up a tiny bit of her diet. your doing the best thing you can but substitute kale for lettuce. lettuce has no nutritional value whatsoever. try raising cage temp to around 90 degrees, this may help stimulate feeding naturally. leave a little kale or diced sweet potato to see if she feeds on her own. good luck

Answer 9

Yes, a smoothie is actually good for them, but also most bearded dragons also have to eat live food as well just call your local vet they will tell you exactly what to feed her and what is good for her O.k..I hope she gets better..take care.

Answer 10

1-Do not cook the veggies, and use Kale
2-Use Zoophobas in the smoothie with the veggies
3-Use RepCal Brand Herptivite and Calcium