Fattening up Time!

[DAB1489]

Hey-
I have a female Bearded Dragon, about 6 months old, who is just a tiny bit underweight. She eats fine and I'm sure she has just enough to eat. I feed her assorted veggies and fruits everyday and about a dozen crickets every other day. She's very healty though, but I just want her to grow up to be nice and big and fat. Any suggestions on what to do? Last time when I tried to give her more crickets I fed her too much and she got sick and had to go to the vet and she stops eating veggies when she is full so...Any suggestions would help. Thanks a bunch!
-Casey
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[telefrag]

I would seriously cut down on the crickets, as they get older, plant material is more important to their health.

Increasing the food intake may do nothing short of speed up the animals metabolism, and not allow the animal to gain more than the normal amount of body mass.

Since your animal is still young, I would keep it on its normal feeding schedule, and start to decrease the amount of animal matter its getting and start offering many types of greens.

Spinach,Romaine,Bok choy, Kale, etc.

Good luck!
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[DAB1489]

Thanks a bunch! I will take your advice and cut down on the Animal intake.
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[kogoz]

mine was very under weight and she fattened right up look this is before this is after [img] <a href=[/img] BBCode End --> i did this by feeding a lage variety of veggies fruits and animal matter like wax worms mealies crickets and other insects (Dont catch them buy them)

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[kogoz]

oh yeah don't feed it a ewhole lot of the crickets and worms oh and heres the pic
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[joerissa]

We have worked the bugs out of our beardie. [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_cool.gif[/img] We feed mainly the Rep-Cal Bearded Dragon food with fresh fruit,greens, veggies on the weekends. Our dragons really perked up and breeding like crazy. Our German Giant female has laid 3 clutches this season 2 of which have hatched with 100% hatch rate. [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_cool.gif[/img] Check out the link below for more info on the Rep-Cal diet.

The Vandivers
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