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Need to learn to restrain themselves all together. It is amazing how much attacking goes on in this community. Perhaps it is that some people have a "know it all" complex, which inhibits them from offering advise in a friendly and intelligent manner. It is amazing how quickly certain people jump on beginners who are doing something wrong (without knowing much about it) but cant manage to help me with my beardie who wont eat veggies no matter what I do, and no matter how many times I post. Its easy to pick on a novice and come off looking smart (and hostile).

Hi,

Did you see the site that someone posted for you in your earlier post about not eating veggies? I checked it out and it is pretty neat! There are suggestions as well as several people who have related their solution to this problem. I'm new to bd's so still learning. My little guy takes small pieces of greens from my fingers. I find if I mist them first so there are water droplets he takes them even more readily.
here's that link - hope it helps!
BD eating veggies

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1.0 Beardie - Darwin
0.2 felines - Kyndra and Líta
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0.3 Mad. Hissers (2 died ;(
0.1 Chilean Rose Hair Tarantula (no name yet)
0.1 Goliath Bird-Eater Tarantula - Natasha

Hey lele,
Thanks, but I have known about that site for quite some time. I have tried ever single method mentioned on there, and the best I have ever gotten was a few nibbles of squash before my boy figured out they werent meal worms....It is a great site, i just have a very reluctant dragon!

>>Hey lele,
>>Thanks, but I have known about that site for quite some time. I have tried ever single method mentioned on there, and the best I have ever gotten was a few nibbles of squash before my boy figured out they werent meal worms....It is a great site, i just have a very reluctant dragon!

Hey. If you find anything good...let me know, ok? I have a very stubborn baby! I've only had her since last week and she does eat crickets like mad, so I'm not too worried. It took my boy forever to start eating his. But it's still frustrating!
Thanks...and I wish ya luck.
-Nicky
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1.1 Bearded Dragons: Gordo & Chiquita
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Check out the website that lele posted, it really does have some great resources! With babies handfeeding can work really well, or keeping crickets and greens in the same dish...There are a lot of different methods

>>Check out the website that lele posted, it really does have some great resources! With babies handfeeding can work really well, or keeping crickets and greens in the same dish...There are a lot of different methods

Yeah...I've tried hand feeding, I've tried moving them around, I've tried a cricket topper...lots o' stuff! But I'll look at that website more closely. Thanks...and thanks lele for posting that.
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These stand for me
Name your god and bleed the freak
I like to see
How you all would bleed for me
-Alice In Chains-
1.1 Bearded Dragons: Gordo & Chiquita
2.2 Cats: Zeus, Remi, Kiki & Delilah

My suggestion is to try fruit. I know that you're not supposed to feed them all that much fruit but thats how I got my girl to start eating her veggies. She wouldn't touch anything other than fruit for a while so what I started doing was mixing the veggies in with the fruit and now she'll eat her veggies over fruit. If you've tried fruit already the only other thing I can think of is baby food in a syringe and just drip it on your beardies nose to get it used to the taste of veggies.

on top of a salad are what finally got Kiana (2 1/2 y.o.) interested in her salads. Dandelions and pansies are her favorites but she likes rose petals too.

She didn't get interested in salad at all until she was about a year and a half old and that was after I cut her live prey feeding down to 3 days a week.

I've had the same problem getting Hank to eat his veggies. He is about a year and a half old and has only recently begun to eat some veggies and fruit. Two things that he really likes are butternut squash and strawberries. The squash is a good staple veggie that he can eat often, but strawberries are only supposed to be occasional. At least now he's eating SOMETHING besides worms!! He's still not too crazy about greens, but he will eat a few bites. I just keep offering them and I figure if he's hungry he can eat them. Give the butternut squash a try. It seems to work for a lot of non-veggie eating dragons from what I've read. Good luck and don't give up!

I grow lots of herbs and flowers so I can be sure they are "safe" (re: biocides).

Also, I put some squirmy silkworms on top of Darwin's veggies and it attracts him to them. He willtake bits of greens form my hand but usually doesn't go after them in his bowl, so the silkies have helped.
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0.1 Veiled - Luna
1.0 Beardie - Darwin
0.2 felines - Kyndra and Líta
1.0 African Clawed Frog - Skipper
0.3 Mad. Hissers (2 died ;(
0.1 Chilean Rose Hair Tarantula (no name yet)
0.1 Goliath Bird-Eater Tarantula - Natasha

I tried to find your other posts and i could only find 1. It says your bd is 13 inches long nose to tip of tail , how old is he. I have noticed in some of my bd they won't touch greens until there about a year and a half old and sometimes older. Also how big are the pieces of greens your giveing him , i have 1 that won't touch them unless there really small pieces. Something else to try don't give crickets but once a week and have greens in there everyday. Also how much are you putting in there , you might be giveing him so much you don't notice he has eatin any. I'm not sure what you have tried if you have tried these let me know and i'll give you some more tricks or treats lol. Paul

that come on here with questions like "My male bred with my 6 month old 300g female accidentaly, how many eggs will I get?", or "My 22" beardie bit the leg of his 10" tank mate, but I can't afford to take her to the vet, what should I do?"

Some people don't do ANY research, and then they get hurt feelings when someone gets a little short responding to a question that is answered in every beardie book ever written, as well as about 20 times a month in this forum by people that love their beardies and hate to see them abused. These are PETS, not decorations. They are dependant upon us as their caretakers and to get a reptile before really looking into the care requirements is irresponsible.

I researched for a month before we got Kiana...read two books and hung out here, and still had questions the first week.

Granted, sometimes even the vets don't know what's going on when they should, but that doesn't excuse us as caretakers from understanding their basic needs, *especially* those of a 4 week old Petco beardie, well before we stick it into a 10 gallon sand filled tank with a 40 watt incandescent bulb and feed it dark mealies.

Sorry for the rant, but I think occasionally it needs to be pointed out that having a reptile is only cool if you have commited yourself to caring for it properly.

Ikt,
I agree with you about the number of people asking really simple questions that have been covered in every beardy book. Trust me i know this scenario inside and out (I work in dog rescue), 5 times out of 10 it is someone who bought a dog breed that they didnt research and now they are wondering why it is destroying thier house when they are gone for 12 hours straight. However, I also think that it is our responsibilty as educated pet owners to respond to these questions (at least they are asking them, and not just letting their beardie die). The least people can do if they think the question is dumb is not reply. Replying with some cheap shot at their spelling or some know-it-all remark is worthless and harmful. Why bother posting at all? I generally think that this forum is an excellent one, with a few bad seeds thrown in....it just seems like the bad seeds managed to post replies every single day.

been lucky enough to miss the offending posts, except for one above.

It's a shame that so many knowledgeable people have left this forum, but have chosen not to deal with the politics and criticism they took for sharing what others might have decided wasn't TRULY the absolute best way to keep beardies...as if anyone really knows for sure.

I'd like to know if the people doing the criticising are also performing proper statistical analysis of the results of their breeding and husbandry experiments?