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My dragons should be come proud parents soon. The eggs look good and are 62 days old.
Is there any thing that the books leave out. Like food, my book just says feed them, it does not say what and what size of what.
Also how cold can there cage get at night?
Any other info would be grand.

Congrats on the babies soon to come.

As for food. They are eating machines!!!! I would say most people raise hatchling bearded dragons on commercial ordered crickets. A good size to order is 1/4". I order them the day the first one hatches. For the first couple days they might not eat, or they might only eat a little. After that they increase their intake pretty quickly. The recent clutch that I just hatched, were eaters from day one! They are only 7-10 days old now and already I have gone through almost 5,000 crickets. Plus they nibble on greens and I feed them zupreem baby bird formula every other day or so as a way to water them and handle them individually (to check them out). I offer juvenile rep cal but they dont even bother with it and when they do, they spit it back out!

You will also want to feed them 3-4 times a day to minimize the chances of toe and tail nips. This can be a big problem with baby beardies. Also housing only 3-4 per ten gallon enclosure helps as well.

I believe others have raised their dragons on silkworms as well, some use newly hatched roaches, others grasshoppers (hard to find commercially in the USA).

Well goodluck! Keep us updated. LindsayMarie
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