Feeding Live Food to Bearded Dragons

"The second source of nutrients for your Bearded Dragon is going to be live prey. Now this can include insects, such as, crickets and meal worms and the older Bearded Dragons, maybe the sub adult, his size, maybe a little bit bigger. They can eat things like a pinkie mice and, which are newborn baby mice up to, up till the point where they gain their fur, depending on the size of your Bearded Dragon. I would go with a fairly small pinkie if you wanted to try something like that but only give this to them once a week or so as adults. Juveniles can eat it a little more often but as adults, as they get older, their main diet should consist of mostly vegetables. I have super worms here that he really enjoys. I like to give him a few. I like to give him quite a variety so that I'm sure that he gets all of the nutrition that he needs. So I have feeding tongs here, I'm just going to pull one of the worms out. As you can see, they're large. These are meal worms. These are different in the sense that they do not need to be refrigerated. If you're having trouble finding someone who supplies, that carries these, try asking for tiny ones. As you can see, he gobbled that right up. He really likes these and again the calcium, the substrate he's on is of calcium base. I am feeding him, I'm throwing them right on the ground and yes he may get a little bit of the substrate when he picks them up but that's not a big deal because again I'm using a calcium based substrate. It is not going to harm him in anyway and he sees that worm. As you can see, live prey, the movement of live prey is very very enticing to Bearded Dragons. I'm going to go ahead and let him have four of these. He is still fairly young, so it is okay if he gets a little bit more than usual in the protein area."