Curious about feeding.

[tf2185]

This will be a long post but i feel as if i should elaborate a little. I'm a bit curious about how everybody does with feeding. I've always heard and have always went by the whole let them eat as much as they can in five minutes. My first two dragons weren't that bad with feeding even though they still ate a great deal. My third bearded dragon Buddy, eats like he has never eaten before. We got him when he was approximately 4 weeks old so he's a little over a year now. When he was a baby we fed him crickets but we had to change that because they were such a pain in the butt. In five minutes time, he would eat about 100 crickets plus all of his various greens that we put in there. That's almost 200 crickets a day because we feed him twice a day. We switched to dubia and he ate about 150 small/medium ones a day and when he got big enough for the large ones, he ate about 100 a day all going by the eat as much as they want within five minutes. Luckily we have our own dubia colony. He ate all that plus his greens. Now our fourth dragon is the same way but eats way more. Small/ baby dubia he or she can eat about 200 within five minutes. He just keeps eating and eating. I wake up in the am and feed him around 11 because his lights come one about 7 and I want to give him time to warm up again. He'll eat all those dubias and when I put her salad in at 12, she takes the whole bowl and eats it as soon as it is in there. Then she will start acting hungry again at around 5 so we feed her again at 6 and she will eat almost 100 more dubia within five minutes. I know it is within five minutes because I use a timer. We recently bought super worms for my Itty Bitty(our forth little monster) They are the micro worms and are almost out of them already and we just bought 1000 of them two days ago and she is the only one who eats them since the rest have their own food. I'm curious to know if anyone else has this issue or are my dragons just hungry little monsters. Should I cut them back from the whole five minutes thing? I don't want them to be unhealthy or anything and I know when they are young they need more protein. They eat pretty much anything we give them and aren't picky at all and no matter what we try it is always large amounts that they can consume.

 

[ClydesGirl]

I only had Clyde from when he was a baby and I got a new beardie yesterday who is 7 months old. All I can tell you is that in my limited experience, growing beardies eat A LOT. Clyde was easily eating 200 crickets a day back when he was a growing boy. This new beardie (who I think I'm going to name Bert) was shipped to me via FedEx (ReptileExpress) and I figured he'd be way too stressed to eat right away. But he gobbled up tons of collards the second I put them in his viv and then ate 50 crickets like they were nothing. I had to scramble to get more feeders by the weekend. I have worms arriving today and an order of 1000 crickets arriving Friday. Hopefully that will be enough to get me through into next week!

 

[tf2185]

I know growing beardies eat a lot but holy crao mine seem to eat nonstop. Lol. I've been on this site for almost a year now and I get on here just about everyday and I don't know how many people I've seen that they say their dragons only eat maybe 50-80 a day. Sometime I wish mine would only eat that many then maybe we wouldn't have to spend that much on food all the time. Lol. We have four dragons and they all eat constantly although our first two don't eat nearly as much as our younger ones. They never did either. I was just curious to see how much other people feed their dragons.
That's good your new dragon(possibly Bert) is already liking greens. It's easier in my opinion when they start eating their greens when they are young then it isn't so much of a hassle getting them to eat them when they are older.