Does anyone know where i can buy some edible dandelion flowers?!
Does anyone know where i can buy some edible dandelion flowers?
i have a uromastyx lizard and she is VERY picky and will only eat the bright yellow dandelion flower but they stopped growing here recently so i have nothing to feed her that she likes. any advice?
Answers:
Maybe a Whole Foods Market if you are near one.
Unless you are going to build a green house your lizard will have to learn to eat other stuff.
Go to a local vegitarian/vegan store, they sell them for tea and salads.
You gotta be a first!!!! In all my days, I have never heard of somebody wanting dandelions. I wonder if you could grow em indoors. If you could get the little puffy seeds, then put em in a big flat planter in the house. As far as the lizard being picky, I believe even starving humans will eat vienna sausages. So a little hunger strike probably wont hurt the lizzie. And who knows, maybe it will cultivate a taste for something else. Good luck.
Mate my backyard is full of them, you can actually get a dandeloin syrup from the health food shop that might help your lizard, otherwise just investigate the locals gardens, I'm sure they'd be only too willing to help you, maybe your neighbours have some and would be willing to part with them, just ask, I'm sure they'd only be too happy to help!
I would get some other greens into her diet, have you tried hand feeding her? She is still eating crickets right? Dandelion flowers alone are not nutritionally adequate for a Uromastyx. make sure the basking temp is proper, 105-115 deg. depending on age, and that the light is on for no more than 12 hours a day. heat and light effect eating patterns in reptiles.