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18-Apr-06, 04:01 PM
|  | Osteopath Subscriber | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Sydney Age: 27 | | |
Hi, have heard a few people feed cat food to their beardies. High protien and cheaper than buying crickets or roaches all the time.
Wanting to know what type, brand etc.?
Have tried a couple and my beardies don't eat it. |
18-Apr-06, 04:02 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-06 Location: Vic Gender:  | | | | Use canned food with no fish, I use dogfood.
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18-Apr-06, 04:06 PM
| | Osteopath Subscriber | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Sydney Age: 27 | | | | yeah i've tried that. Used a cat food but was minced beef type dish. Seemed very sloppy. Put it in their enclosure but it just sat there, smelling. |
18-Apr-06, 04:10 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-04 Location: The far and bewildered mountainside of the strange region of Carpathia Age/Gender: 33 | | | | try and get pate/loaf type dog foods, it's easy to work with(not sloppy etc). Little Champions was quite a good dog food, but i think they've stopped making it. Also get dog foods with vegetables in it.
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18-Apr-06, 04:12 PM
| | Osteopath Subscriber | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Sydney Age: 27 | | | | ok thanks. i'll try that. |
18-Apr-06, 04:16 PM
|  | Subscriber | | | | | I add herpti-vite to the dof food when feeding to lizards.
Do ppl think this is a good thing or possibly clog then up aliltle? They seem to be ok, just thought maybe over long term.
I only add a little amount of powder, not drown it.
Interested in ppl's opinions.
Cheers
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19-Apr-06, 09:26 AM
| | Osteopath Subscriber | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Sydney Age: 27 | | | | BUMP |
19-Apr-06, 09:36 AM
|  | FAYSE! Moderator | Join Date: Jun-05 Location: Illawarra Gender:  | | | | We give ours canned food about once a week, but they always have a choice. The plate is half canned food with the other half vegies. When they have their salad the other half is fruit. Another day they get bearded dragon pellets....and once a week they get put in a big tub with as many roaches as they can eat.
The trick is.......give them a lot of variety!! |
19-Apr-06, 09:42 AM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Dec-04 Location: Sunbury, Vic | | | I buy tinned dog food that is in a solid loaf. I then dice it up into small cubes and mix it through all of their veggies. That way I know that they're eating SOME of the tinned food at least lol
Some of them LOVE it and will actually eat large chunks off a teaspoon lol
And in every meal my guyes get endive and tinned food, but each week I alternate which fruits I buy for them so that they get a little bit of everything 
My adults get the above every second day and the bubs get it once a week and insects every day.
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19-Apr-06, 09:43 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: May-05 Location: Adelaide Age/Gender: 25 | | | | My beardy gets a HUGE variety of vegetables and fruit, like carrots, broccoli, lettuce, tomato, strawberry, rockmelon, apple, orange, and a millon others, and also flowers (eg. hibiscus, dandelion etc). I dont buy crix often, maybe twice a month, and I just dump tem all in and watch him chase them around.. And about once a month he gets a weaner mouse. Everything is dusted with calcuium and also Wombaroo insectivore mix (dont know if you can get this ouside of SA).
As fay said, variety is the key, think of what they would eat in the wild.
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19-Apr-06, 09:55 AM
| | Osteopath Subscriber | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Sydney Age: 27 | | | | Excellent, thanks for all your tips. |
19-Apr-06, 10:34 AM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Feb-04 Location: Sydney | | | | Chum beef and vegetables and kitekat beef and vegetables. Usually sereved with other things.
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19-Apr-06, 10:56 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Brisbane Age/Gender: 23 | | | | I just use the ones with a low fat content, most already have vitamins and minerals in them so supplementing shouldnt be needed IMO
Just be sure to check the labels and try afew differant ones, i havnt found any yet they dont like.
I give mine a big meaty meal about once a fortnight(mice, cat food etc)
Also i give him asian gecko tails that have been frozen. IMO small reptiles would make up a fair portion of their natural diet.
I also give him as much lettuce, prickly pear or other veges he can eat aswell as insects.
If using prickly pear be careful to remove all spikes some are very small and cant be easily seen. | |
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