What can you feed a bearded dragon besides live crickets?

Answer 1

The bearded dragons are omnivores, with plant foods comprising about 20 percent of their diet. Since these lizards consume a wide variety of invertebrates and small vertebrates in the wild, a variety of protein sources must be offered in captivity. Prey items such as appropriately sized cultured crickets, cockroaches, mealworms, king worms, and wax worms can be fed, along with pink mice.
Plant matter includes a variety of shredded or torn vegetables and fruits such as green beans, orange-fleshed squash, carrots, escarole, parsley, mustard, dandelion and collard greens, raspberries, mango, and cantaloupe.

Answer 2

Baby bearded dragons mostly live on small crickets. When they get older then they can have more greens & veggie and less crickets. But for it's whole life it will need crickets. If you cannot give it any, then you are just going to watch it have a slow lingering death. Take it back to the shop and explain the problem or pass it on to a friend who can care for it as needed. You should have done the research and found out what it needed before buying the poor thing. There are some excellent sites that give you full details on the care and feeding. It will not be interested any food for a couple of days till it get used to it's new home. Leave it quiet and let it settle in. In the mean time get a good book, or find a site and show it to your dad. He may come round (I hope so). The crickets also need water on a sponge, anything else and they will drown. Gut food (do the research) I also always have cucumber and carrot and biscuits and oats in cricket cage, then they must be dusted before giving to the dragon. If the crickets are not looked after, then they will not be full of the goodness your dragon needs.

Answer 3

It looks like everyone has covered greens; for a full list this site has some good info:
http://www.beautifuldragons.503xtreme.com/Nutrition.html

As far as meat; let me start out by saying NO PINKY MICE! i saw that somebody mentioned you could feed a beardie pinkies.... DONT DO IT!! Pinkys are really high in fat; and not much of anything else. They are the equivilent of you or me eating a tub of lard!!! no good!

You can, however feed them superworms (if they are full grown! hatchlings and juveniles cannot digest the hard outer shell) also roaches and silk worms. Meal worms are not very nutritious; so it is not suggested to use them as a main staple feeder. Waxworms are good to have on hand as a treat. They are a good dessert for a beardie; but not to be fed all the time, just a couple, a couple days a week.

Answer 4

Locusts, Cockroaches, Mealworms, Waxworms, Zophobas worms, Silkworms, Butterworms, Red worms, Earthworms and just about any other worm available.All these should be used as treats though with crickets and greens being the stable part of your Dragons diet.Prey items should be dusted once a day with a calcium/vitamin D3 supplement such as Rep-cal makes. All prey items should be dusted once a week with a multivitamin supplement such as Herptivite, also made by Rep-cal. one more thing...DO NOT FEED UR BEARDIE ANYTHING BIGGER THAN THE SPACE BETWEEN ITS EYES, IT WILL SUFFER HORRIBLY

Answer 5

There is a huge selection of 'leafy' greens which are high in calcium to feed your Dragon, some of which are... kale, arugula, collard & mustard greens, parsley, dandelion greens & flowers, endives, radish, carrot & turnip tops, escarole and chicory endive. For more of a variety, mixed into the greens may be many other veggies such as squash, corn, peas, carrots (shredded), sweet potato, cucumber, zucchini, green peppers, chard... also chopped fruit such as cantaloupe, apple, blueberries, peaches, pears, grapes, plums, raspberries... all chopped finely to avoid choking. The main idea in their diet is variety. **Do not feed your dragons iceburg lettuce as is has very little nutritional value and may give the dragon the 'runs' - prompting dehydration. Dragons will also munch on other greens. If you take your dragon outside or allow it to roam about the house - please be sure to check that the possible munchies are not poisonous.

Answer 6

You should be feeding them a mixture of these veggies(no corn, broccoli or cauliflower)

Butternut squash (winter squash)
Yellow squash (summer squash)
Various other squashes including acorn, buttercup, etc.
Green beans
Carrots
Parsnips
Sweet potato

You should also feed him leafy greens like these(no lettuces)

Collard greens
Turnip greens
Dandelion greens
Mustard greens
Escarole
Chicory

Besides crickets you can give them pinkie mice and other insects sold at a pet store.

Answer 7

well they need vegetables like collard greens, kale, dandelion greens, shredded carrots and other vitamin filled greens. you can get them pinky mice or "fuzzies" if the dragon is bigger. they also like meal-worms. there are also artificial foods made specially for bearded dragons. hope i was helpful!

Answer 8

They eat a lot of different things....check out these websites

Answer 9

Meal worms

Answer 10

Eye of a snoozledroggle.