Feeding a Bearded Dragon Vegetables

Vegetables might not be the main food that yourHowever, as suggested, misting green, proper
bearded dragons take, nor what it like. However,placement, mixing vegetables with crickets can help
once you start handing feeding them, they maythese little pet. At the same time, try to pile up the
enjoy and continue to eat the vegetables afterward.green so that it is obvious to be seen. Please be
This will take a little while for your bearded to learnreminded that at this stage, they will not consume a
to consume the vegie. Nonetheless you can trylot of green because they need crickets for protein
several ways to encourage your beardie to eatto grow.
vegetables sooner.Bearded dragon likes to consume things that are in
There are various strategies that you may apply tomovement, such as crickets, mealworms or
help your bearded dragon to eat vegetables. Somewaxworms. You can try to drop the green from the
people will hang the large leaf for them to pull offoverhead of them, and this will encourage them to
into pieces. Another way is to place the green in atry to catch and eat the greens when it is falling
shallow bowl, easily for them to spot it and eat.down from above. Once they find the greens are
When they can't see it they will not eat the green,consumable, they will start eating.
this happens especially for the young.If your bearded dragon is really stubborn and always
When feeding crickets, some have suggested torejects vegetables as food, you can try to gut load
place the green as well with the cricket. When theythe small pieces of green with the crickets before
catch the crickets, they might eat the green as well.feeding them. Feed the cricket with vegetables and
This eventually will encourage the bearded dragonscrickets, then feed the gut-loaded crickets to your
start eating vegetables. This might be a little toughpet. This is one of the good techniques as the reptile
but you can try to withhold crickets for several days,will eat the crickets for protein as well as the nutrient
the beardie will find the greens as their source ofof greens that are just consumed by the crickets. If
food.you have little baby dragons or juvenile, this will
The main point of successful feeding of beardeddefinitely help.
dragon with vegetables is to catch their attentions.Vegetables, greens and fruits are one of the good
This can be done by misting the greens because thissources of nutrients that you may provide to your
will catch their attentions, and they will eat them forbearded dragons. If they like it and start to accept
the moisture.and eat, then this will definitely help to improve their
If you are having baby and juveniles, you may find ithealth. Perhaps you may start trying these
harder to feed them compared to adult dragon.techniques to teach them eating vegetables.