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Hey

I'm new on this forum and I have 2 collared lizards for 6 months now.
They are for some days out the hibernation.
My question is, Can you feed them vegetables and fruit somethimes?
They eat now only crickets and locusts.

Greetz

Maurice

My Collared Lizards occasionally eat greens,
but they should be given a cricket locust diet.
I read in a book that there is a higher density in Collared
Lizard population where there is a high density
of grasshoppers(locusts) in wild conditions.
Back to the greens, my Collared lizards generally
like blossoms. So far I've seen them eat the flowers of
Dandelion, Portulaca, Desert Willow,
and Globe Mallow. They would occasionally eat the lettuce
I offer my Chuck, DI's and Desert Tortoises. I wonder if they really liked the food, or if they were jealous that the others were getting fed first. I don't know. Hope this helps.

Yours,
Phil Clevinger

Feed the vegetables to your crickets and other insects: That is about the only way to get veggies into collareds. Collareds are almost never interested in anything that doesn't run, hop, or fly LOL.

DC
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I've got the blues...LOL...them screamin' yellow-head blues...

My collared lizard also eat dead locusts, so I don't think that that is a problem.

I'm going to bred my own crickets and then I give them vegetables en fruits ,
Then the collared lizards have a little variety in there diet

Thnx for the posts

Greetz

Maurice

I give all my guys a small amount of collards, kale, shredded carrot, squash, and shredded apple or banana twice a week.

Most like the carrots, the baja'a will nibble the greens, and in the spring I offer dandilion greens and flowers and rose petals.

Some like them some pick, and some don't bother. But I do offer.

Eve