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Can you over fed a baby beardie?

pepe15 Mar 07, 2004 02:06 AM

I know that you give them around two ten min peiods to eat as many crix as they can...but during the day do you leave the rest of the crix in there? I know not to do that overnight when the BD is sleeping so the crix don't nibble on the BD. Also, when you give wax worms as a treat...how often do you treat. My husband likes to feed our BD something once a day...usually a wax worm and then I put one on his salad to introduce him to it and let him know where the green stuff is. I know the worry is that they are high in fat, but isn't a little extra fat on a baby good if the main food source is crix? Thanks for reading through my rambling questions!
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Jamie
0.0.1 corn (Rio)
0.0.1 beardie (Koda)

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Tracey Mar 07, 2004 10:38 AM

Sounds like you're doing fine with him....I would put the crickets in small groups, when he eats them all ad a few more in the 10-15 minute period, then you won't have so many spares running around all day. A waxworm is ok but they do get spoiled on them and don't want anything else often, so caution there. Otherwise, keep up the good work.
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Tracey
Tracey's Beardies
www.beardiecrazy.com

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