Picky eater!!!!!!!

[Pareeeee]

Ok
I'm getting very frustrated with my beardie, Auzzie. I finally discovered what her explosive and vile smelling diarrhea problem was from.

Turns out there was this site that TOLD me that I could feed her carrots, green beans, and peas every day along with her crickets as part of her main diet. Then I found out that too many beans and peas can give them diarrhea.

So, now I've switched over to giving her dark green leafy veggies...but she's so PICKY she won't eat anything that even LOOKS like a leaf . It doesn't matter if it's fresh, refrigerated, or frozen, she won't eat romaine, dandelion, carrot greens, need I go on?!!?!??!!!
So the real problem is that now I'm forced to go back to giving her the carrots, beans and peas because that's all she will eat. I don't want her to keep having this terrible diarrhea, please help! How do I get her to eat her GREENS!?

[Xeikeness]

Try cutting the greens up and rolling them into pea-sized balls. That worked for mine.

[spike06]

only give carrots a couple times a week. try ordering the salad topper from Cricket Food at CricketFood.com™ it works well

[John_E_Dove]

Another trick to entice them to eating their greens is to sprinkle the chopped greens into the dish while she is near it instead of just putting in a bowl of greens. Sometimes the falling/movement will get them to attack/eat the greens/prey, as they see moving objects

[spike06]

try a little bit of finely chopped yellow squash. and use turnip, mustard, or collard greens

[-KB-]

banannas...but only a tiny bit. if she eats the bananna bits, start mushing the banannas on the romaine lettuce....then ween her off of the banannas, or just keep flavoring her lettuce..your choice...but it worked for me. Duchess (beardie) was a bananna feen. she really liked apples and squash too...might try that.

[Pareeeee]

Thanks guys. I'm gonna try some of these ideas! If any of you have more ideas, let me know

[Tux]

1. Try dangling, wiggling, or dragging the greens across the cage floor, anything to convince your beardie that its not a piece of collard green, its actually just an unusually bright oddly shaped cricket! Seriously though, the movement sometimes is enough to stimulate their hunting sense and they will attack the greens.
2. Feed greens first. Don’t try offering greens right after your BD has feasted on crickets, instead offer the greens first. Put them in the cage in the morning and leave them their all day. Don’t be afraid to make your beardie go for a day without food, it wont hurt her. Feed her the greens when she is hungriest.
3. Try throwing some super or silkworms in with a dish of greens. Mix it up real well so your beardie has no choice but to get a few mouthfuls of greens if they want the worms.
4. Make sure you are using a variety of veggies. All beardies have different tastes, and yours may not find the veggies you have been offering palatable. Also try veggies of different colors. You may have to spoil your beardie by offering her the yummier veggies instead of the plain old traditional greens for awhile if she isn’t taking to them. Try colorful ones like shredded carrots, shredded purple cabbage, all sorts of squashes, mixed berries, sweet clover, various bell peppers and edible flowers.
5. Sometimes it really takes dropping the veggies right into their mouths to get them to eat them. If that’s how it is, so be it. Trick your beardie into tasting as many veggies as possible, eventually she will catch on.
6. Try using baby food to get your dragon to eat greens. Butternut squash is often popular flavor – as is chicken. You can start by dabbing a little baby food on your dragons mouth and see if they like it. If so, smear some baby food on the leaves of the greens and try offering them that way
7. Try some Salad topper from cricketfood.com, it really does wonders.
8. The most important tip is to be persistent! Continue offering greens to your beardie no matter how many times she turns her nose up at them. That may the only way to win her over.

	Bearded Dragon Bearded Dragon is the common name for any agamid lizard in the genus Pogona.