Beardy question for Steve Grenard or ?

[pipelineaudio]

Didnt realize you wrote a beardie book!

We got one from a breeder who was getting rid of "defects". One of her legs dont work, so she was in the defect pile.

We got her as a tiny frail little thing, but now she's big and fat. She likes baby mice, superworms, earthworms and crickets. She will eat kale from time to time, but no other vegetables and fruit except the grass in my lawn.

How do you get them to eat other veggies or fruit?

[andyandy]

so this isn't a question about beards? :)

what's a beardie??

[pipelineaudio]

http://www.groundswell.fi/sarita/wp-content/epsilonrakastaporkkanaa.jpg

[andyandy]

he looks like Jabba the hut :)

[SteveGrenard]

Beardies like kale but also colorful scent laden fruits and veggies: oranges, carrots, strawberries, dandelions - the flowers and leaves -- they love all aromatic flowers (so long as they are not toxic). Try yellows like yellow (summer) squash chopped up, fresh peas and chopped up mustard leaf.

Also sprinkle your fruits and veggies with water as rain dripping down their head and into their mouth and their food is their only source of fluids. It is difficult to get them to drink from a water bowl but I had one which would do it if I crushed up some strawberries in it.

Beardies are best kept in solitary as they attack each other which is probably what happened to this one's leg. Not an uncommon injury when a bunch of youngsters are kept together in one enclosure. Separating them as babies is necessary and is what makes them more expensive to rear on a wholesale basis.

[SteveGrenard]

And don't forget to welcome our bearded dragon overlords:

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