Vegetables might not be the main food that your bearded dragons take, nor what it like. However, once you start handing feeding them, they may enjoy and continue to eat the vegetables afterward. This will take a little while for your bearded to learn to consume the vegie. Nonetheless you can try several ways to encourage your beardie to eat vegetables sooner.
There are various strategies that you may apply to help your bearded dragon to eat vegetables. Some people will hang the large leaf for them to pull off into pieces. Another way is to place the green in a shallow bowl, easily for them to spot it and eat. When they can't see it they will not eat the green, this happens especially for the young.
When feeding crickets, some have suggested to place the green as well with the cricket. When they catch the crickets, they might eat the green as well. This eventually will encourage the bearded dragons start eating vegetables. This might be a little tough but you can try to withhold crickets for several days, the beardie will find the greens as their source of food.
The main point of successful feeding of bearded dragon with vegetables is to catch their attentions. This can be done by misting the greens because this will catch their attentions, and they will eat them for the moisture.
If you are having baby and juveniles, you may find it harder to feed them compared to adult dragon. However, as suggested, misting green, proper placement, mixing vegetables with crickets can help these little pet. At the same time, try to pile up the green so that it is obvious to be seen. Please be reminded that at this stage, they will not consume a lot of green because they need crickets for protein to grow.
Bearded dragon likes to consume things that are in movement, such as crickets, mealworms or waxworms. You can try to drop the green from the overhead of them, and this will encourage them to try to catch and eat the greens when it is falling down from above. Once they find the greens are consumable, they will start eating.
If your bearded dragon is really stubborn and always rejects vegetables as food, you can try to gut load the small pieces of green with the crickets before feeding them. Feed the cricket with vegetables and crickets, then feed the gut-loaded crickets to your pet. This is one of the good techniques as the reptile will eat the crickets for protein as well as the nutrient of greens that are just consumed by the crickets. If you have little baby dragons or juvenile, this will definitely help.
Vegetables, greens and fruits are one of the good sources of nutrients that you may provide to your bearded dragons. If they like it and start to accept and eat, then this will definitely help to improve their health. Perhaps you may start trying these techniques to teach them eating vegetables.
