Wish your BD would eat greens?Careful what u wish 4!LOL

[Sherri]

LOL

For those who think their beardie will never eat their greens, have hope! :mrgreen:

Razz had always ignored his greens. Well, when we first got him as a 7wk old baby he took a few bites but then quit that :roll:

Long story short, one day he went to his dish and started chowing down on his greens! Big time. :mrgreen:

For 5 days in a row, he ate his greens.

But then...I noticed he was getting full on greens and ignoring his dubia! *sigh*.

So, although I could not believe I actually had to deny him his greens as the first thing offered in the morning; that is exactly what I had to do LOL. It took 3 days of putting his dubia in first....the first day he ignored them for hours until *I* broke down and gave him his salad :roll:

Now, I do give him his salad and dubia at the same time, but he *always* eats salad first. (btw, he is 19 weeks now, still a juvie) It might be an hour or a few hours before he eats any dubia. I keep the dubia in his viv all day and he does eventually eat them enough.

So, don't give up hope, some dragons will catch on suddenly! I once posted how Razzle SPIT a green out that I had tricked into him...and I mean a spit...evil eye of course followed and then the *turned his back*, one more turn of the head with evil eye again to me LOL Quite the expression of his distaste! :mrgreen:

~Sherri

 

[SoleSky]

My beardie is a year old. I sure hope this happens to him soon!

 

[Sherri]

Hi SoleSky

I think you have already tried the tough love, yes? Only giving BeeGee salad for a few days, no bugs?

What other things have you tried in the salad?

Shredded carrots? Razz was eating carrots long before he tried salad. I would shred it and put it on my finger for him to lick off.

*IF* BeeGee (oh, I have been meaning to post on your thread how I LOVE that name! Excellent choice!) will eat something shredded from your finger, then do that and start putting a little bit of finely shredded collard in it. Of course I am not sure if he will eat from your hand yet :roll:

Be sure to feed your feeders collard greens...a lot, they will have the tase of them somewhat which may help.

What I was about to try with Razz was to shred some collard greens up very very fine, even blend them a bit and put them ON a few feeder bugs so when he ate them he would get the taste of greens. Maybe you could try that.

There must be a dozen or more ways to try and I was about to start going down the list! LOL :mrgreen:

~Sherri

 

[SoleSky]

My beardie's name is BeeGee, but I know somebody on here was Mufasa's owner . Yeah Bee eats squash sometimes so that's a start but he won't touch his collards. I've tried a dozen things, will try tough love soon once his weight evens out

 

[Sherri]

Eee gads! Know what? I knew that! LOL

Don't know why I wrote Mufasa??? But I did post on BeeGees thread I believe lol. I changed my post to give name credit where it is due LOL :mrgreen:

Glad he likes squash! That should do it then...

~Sherri

 

[SoleSky]

HAHA :lol: That's alright and yeah you have posted . It's funny, you actually made my day