How do I get my beardie to eat veggies?

Question

All my beardie has ever eaten is crickets. He (or she) goes through about 6 dozen a week. The beardie is about 3 months old and still refuses to eat any veggies. I do not want to starve him so I always keep crickets in there. Do I need to start leaving them out and make him eat veggies? Thanks

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Thats way more crickets than he should be eating a week! You're going to make him fat.

Instead of leaving a bunch of crickets in there, just feed him 5 or 8 crickets once a day (when he's bigger, every other day). On the days you don't have crickets, offer veggies. You have to try playing around with different veggies and prepare them different ways. Some like whole leaves of greens, some like shredded, some like chopped and some even like food processed food.

Leaving crickets in the cage constantly can stress your lizard out.

Answer 3

Just keep trying and offer your beardie a variety to choose from.No one says he will like everything so give him a choice hope the following info is of help.
Bearded Dragons are omnivorous, meaning that they eat both animal and plant matter. Any and all food items that your Bearded Dragons eat should be no bigger than the space between their eyes. If the food items are bigger than the space between their eyes it can cause impaction and/or hind leg paralysis. Either way your Beardie will suffer horribly.

Baby and juvenile Beardies should be offered appropriately sized crickets two-three times a day. Offer as many as your Beardie will eat in a 5-10 minute time frame. When your Beardie stops eating, stop offering. Young Bearded Dragons can eat anywhere from 20-60 small crickets a day. Your Beardie should also be given fresh greens daily. Spraying the greens with water will help them last longer and will also help keep your Beardie hydrated.

Sub-adult to adult Beardies only need to eat prey items once a day along with fresh greens. Once they are this age you can also offer them 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. DO NOT feed your Beardie insects that you have caught in your backyard. These bugs could have parasites that could be passed on to your Beardie or they could have been exposed to poisons that could kill your Beardie. Lightning bugs can also kill your Beardie so it is much safer to stay away from wild caught insects.

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.

Any uneaten prey itmes should be removed from your Dragons enclosure.

There is a wide variety of greens that are available that are good for your Beardie. Dandelion greens, Collard greens, Mustard greens, Bok choy, Kale, Turnip greens, Escarole and Chicory are among the easiest to find and the best to use. If the greens you are wondering about say Lettuce anywhere in the name avoid them. Most types of lettuce are composed mostly of water and hold little or no nutritional value. With the wide variety of other greens out there it is better and easier to just avoid any type of lettuce. Spinach should also be avoided as calcium binds to it and will not be digested by your animal.

A wide variety of vegetables can also be offered to your Beardie. Butternut squash, Yellow squash, Spaghetti squash, Acorn squash, all other varieties of squash, Green beans, Parsnips, Sweet potato, Snow peas and Carrots. Carrots should only be used as a treat though due to the high amounts of vitamin A. Any food with high amounts of vitamin A should be avoided as reptiles do not absorb alot of vitamin A. Feeding your Beardie alot foods such as Carrots will end up in a condition called Vitamin A toxicity wich is deadly. Squashes will either have to be cooked or microwaved before feeding them to your Beardie. This will soften them up and they can then be minced and eaten easier.

Fruits can also be used, just avoid any citrus fruit such as oranges and grape fruit.

Answer 4

Beardies do no longer favor and maximum do unlike nor look after vege's or culmination ... they're ' Insectivore's ' no longer vegetarian !!! also if each little thing else isn't top like suitable habitat ( no longer tanks , aquariums, electric powered warmth mats, tape or rocks ... no loose substrate or decorations ) they favor suitable warmth & UVA/UVB lights fixtures, insects gently dusted with calcium + D3 ideally of the trojan horse kin no longer crickets ... ) it truly isn't any longer going to count what you feed him , your Beardie gained't do nicely both < only for further data , no longer something personal :) ! Take Care

Answer 5

keep trying. we started with arugula and romaine lettuce and then went on to mandarin oranges and bananas, and other veggies. hatchlings to juveniles a lot of time won't eat veggies. try offering small amounts daily (or hand feeding them to him), if he starts eating them start offering more veg. less crickets. after he's 8 months, if he still wont eat them you may want to go see a proffesional to make sure he's okay. ours is 1 1/2 and just switched to meal worms also.

Answer 6

wait... you are trying to feed your small bearded man (or woman)?

I hope a "beardie" is an animal of some sorts.

Anyway, if your pet munchkin likes crickets, I would just let it eat crickets. I would prefer crickets to vegetables too.

Answer 7

Just leave them in the cage they will eat the ones they want and don't forget fruit go online to see what your bird should eat just type in the search like " What fruits can my parrot eat" or what everkind of birdie you have and something will come out.

Answer 8

you need to cut them up( realy fine) most bearded dragons like lettice & carrots....i no that mine likes bananas (but again you have to cut ...or squish them)! umm... all i can say is that there are some veg. that are poisionus soo be careful! lol sooo

Answer 9

Buy a tweetie outfit dress yourself with it and eat veggies in front of your berdie. That'll teach her. ;)