How many crickets/greens should my beardie eat?

[blacklotus]

My bearded dragon is 14 inches long. Should he be eating 80% greens 20% live or the other way around? For example how many crickets per day/week?

 

[Chair76]

mine is the same as yours, and i feed her around 35 or more most of the time of the adult crickets and her greens(a hand full) everyday. maybe until shes around 18 months you can switch off crickets one day and greens the next.

 

[kevinbob]

thats what i did fed him crickets every other day now he just eats the crickets and not the greens how do i get him back on the greens i've tried everything even moving it hand feeding him he just won't take it he as about 2 years old

 

[Chair76]

idk, mine just ate greens ever since he was a baby. Maye you could try other greens?

 

[Carnivorouszoo]

My Mojo attacked her greens once I put some reptiworms in the bowl with them, perhaps try that?

 

[FBradshaw]

My bearded dragon is 14 inches long. Should he be eating 80% greens 20% live or the other way around? For example how many crickets per day/week?

It's not so much the length that determines that as the age. But at 14" long your beardie should still be a juvenile and need around 70% to 80% live feeders and 20% to 30% vegetable matter. I feed mine live feeders twice a day as much as they will eat in about a 10 minute period until they are around a year old, at this time they start adjusting their live feeder intake on their own so I cut feedings to once a day. Fresh greens and veggies are available almost all day long as are Rep-Cal Bearded Dragon Food, which is pellets. My adults get fed the same, as much as they will eat in a about a 10 minute period, but only once every 2 or 3 days while still having greens, veggies, and pellets available all day.

 

[Chair76]

Yeah that could be it with adding some worms to ur veggis. I forgot before i new mealworms where bad i feed them to her in her salad when she was very young so i guess you could try that? Like what Carnivorouszoo did.

 

[Carnivorouszoo]

Don't use mealworms though, use reptiworms, or phoenix worms, or wax worms. They are all way better for your beardie than mealies.

 

[Chair76]

i know