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How many crickets should I feed my bearded dragon, I've searched EVERYWHERE and I can't seam to find an amount. Thank you for your time.

Oh and I forgot to say that they're about 4 months old.

It is very difficult to say how many crickets to feed any given dragon. Some will eat more than others and it also depends on the size of crickets used (though it is never good to feed crickets larger than the space between the dragon's eyes).

A general rule of thumb when it comes to feeding crickets to young dragons is offer as any crickets the dragon will eat in a 5-10 minute sitting. Some dragons may eat 15 small crickets (for a 4 month old, a quarter to half inch cricket is probably about the correct size) others can eat as many as 50. Let your dragon indicate roughly how much crickets it will eat. After a couple days feeding him crickets twice a day (4 month olds should still get two insect feedings a day with greens being available to them all day long to snack on) you will get an ideal how many crickets he will eat. Then you can offer that amount with maybe a couple more to see if he will eat a bit more.

As the dragon gets older, and is able to eat larger crickets, the amount will start to decrease till he is old enough to only need a small percentage of crickets daily with greens making up the bulk of his daily intake of food.
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PHLdyPayne

Thank you I will keep that in mind.

How to check for correct size of the crickets...'

no larger than the space between their eyes

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Great picture Cheri and deffinitely a clear way to show how to measure crickets for bearded dragons.
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PHLdyPayne

>>How to check for correct size of the crickets...'
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>>no larger than the space between their eyes
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Cheri, This is a excellent way to show someone the correct size! I wanted to ask you what morph your dragon is. I just picked up a Hypo Red x Sandfire Yellow that looks just like yours. Deb
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Jazz- Snow x Patternless Pastel x Hypo Orange female
Jet- Snow x Patternless Pastel x Hypo Orange male
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That little guy is a Hypo Pastel with 20 beautiful clear nails, that was donated by Randy of AlphaDragonZ.com to help support our rescue and test studies on bearded dragons.

He was sold to a lovely couple in Florida (where we live) as a valentine present for the wife and he is named Valentino
That was a year and half ago, so he is a big boy now. He was the only little one we had in the house at the time I needed to get a photo of the crickets/size estimates

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