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I'm interested in taking a little poll here. Basically, what is your feeding schedule for your ADULT beardies? What do you feed them, and how often?

Here is what I feed my adult male:

- Crickets twice a week
- On other days, mixed greens and veggies
- Every few weeks, replace crickets with waxworms for variety and fat

When I feed crickets, I feed 15-25 large at a time, with a calcium supplement once a week and a vitamin supplement every week or two. When I feed salad, I use either escarole, endive, collard greens, mustard greens, or dandelions as a base, then add shredded carrots, squash, or green beans on top.

He seems to be faring well off this diet, he is large, active, but not overweight or underweight.

What about you?
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-Andy

Mine get greens and veggies every day.......mustard, collard, turnip and dandelion greens as a base, then small amounts of endive, escarole, parsley, kale, spinach along with carrots, yellow squash, green beans and pea pods. Most eat a good cup a day of the greens/veggies.

They get protein in some form 3 times per week.....usually crickets, with a few superworms or silkworms and superworms, occassional roaches and grasshoppers for treats. I let them eat all the want in 10 mins......which averages 25-35 bugs per dragon.

I also give the ones who like them repcal pellets 3-4 times per week, all they want.

Adults- Greens daily givin to them in the morning. Collard, dandalion, endive, escarole, chicory. Once and a while I add arugala, or kale. Squash, sweet potatos, apple, carrots on top of greens. Once and a while I use frozen mixed veggies.

Live food in the afternoon I give them all live food. Super worms 6 times a week. wax worms 2 times a week, crickets 2 times a week. once and a while butter worms.

Rep cal calcium 4 days. 1 time with multi vitamins

Babies and juvinile- They get the same greens as adults. Chopped up.

Babies/juviniles get calcium dusted crickets twice daily. when they are around 10 inches I give wax and meal worms on occasion.

I forgot to add they get absolute calcium with every bug feeding. Add my clutching females get all the bugs they want everyday, with calcium supplement every day also.

i feed my Ralph salad everyday consisting of endive, radichirio (aah cant spell), collards, romaine, yellow squash, green beans, carrots, peas, apples, raspberries. 5 times a week i feed crickets...all he can eat in 7 minutess...along with the roaches and silks and hornworms and waxies and supers and mealies and grasshoppers, yeah lol...and sometimes the occasional pinky (once a month)
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~David - KDRKreatures
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I have three adult bearded dragons - one female and two males.

Every day - they get a salad in the morning. I make sure not to include items with high oxalates and phosphorus. I put things in like collard/mustard/dandelion greens, papaya, mango, squash, green beans, etc... I make sure that their salads are constantly changing so they don't get tired of the same old thing. Sometimes I throw in strawberries, raspberries, dandelion flowers.

Every other day - I add a liquid calcium carbonate supplement to their salads.

Twice a week - they get a treat of either superworms (2 or 3 each), wax worms (7 - 8 each), crickets (5 or 6 each), or a pinkie (maybe once a month). I always dust my live prey with calcium dust because all of these prey items are higher in phosphorus than calcium. I just try to balance things out a little.

Well, that's about it. I have three very healthy dragons with great appetites. What else could I ask for?

Veronica
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