A baby bearded dragon's feeding history is the difference between a youngster that eats on its first evening home and one that hides and refuses food while its new keeper guesses. A responsible breeder holds that history in detail and shares it without being chased. Your job before money changes hands is to ask questions specific enough that 'eating well' cannot hide behind them.
Which insects, which greens, in what amounts
Ask for the actual menu. Which live insects does this baby eat — roaches, crickets, black soldier fly larvae, or a rotation — and in what rough quantity across a day? Young bearded dragons eat multiple insect sessions daily, and a breeder should be able to describe a typical day for this individual baby: how many sessions, how keenly it hunts at each, and whether its appetite is steady or fades after the first sitting.
Greens matter just as much, even though babies are heavily insect-focused. Ask which leafy greens and vegetables are offered, how they are prepared, and whether this baby actually eats them or mostly ignores the dish for now. A breeder who admits a particular youngster has not yet taken to greens is giving you useful honesty; one who claims every baby eats everything is selling, not informing.
Prey size and hunting confidence
Ask what size prey the baby currently manages and how it hunts. A confident baby that chases prey across the enclosure is ready for a different home setup from a shy one that only eats from tongs or from a dish placed beside its basking spot. Find out where it is usually fed, at what times, and whether feeding happens in the enclosure or a separate tub, because changing the venue, the hour and the menu all in one move is how relocation stress turns into a hunger strike.
The supplement routine, stated precisely
Supplements are where vague answers do real harm, because a baby growing this fast depends on them daily. Ask which calcium powder is used, whether it is dusted at every insect feed or on a schedule, and when a multivitamin is given. Ask whether a dish of calcium is available in the enclosure, and note the answers word for word rather than assuming your routine at home will roughly match.
Then ask about light, because feeding history is meaningless without it. What UVB setup has the baby been raised under, and how are its basking temperatures arranged? A baby that ate beautifully under strong, correct lighting may falter in a dimmer home setup, and the breeder's answers let you reproduce the conditions its appetite was built on.
Records, weight and the last feed
Ask when the baby last ate, what it ate, and get its current weight and hatch information if the breeder tracks them. Many careful breeders keep simple logs — hatch date, shed dates, weight checks, any vet visit — and will share them or copy them for you. A baby that has been weighed regularly and has a short written history is a baby whose growth someone has actually been watching.
Bringing the history home intact
On the first day, replicate rather than improve: same insects, same sizes, same session times, same dusting. Novelty is for later, once the baby has eaten confidently for a week in its new enclosure. Write everything the breeder told you down that same day, while the conversation is fresh, rather than trusting memory once the excitement fades. With KinsLe Transferrable Profiles, the breeder's feeding history, supplement routine and growth notes can pass to you with the dragon's profile, so the menu and rhythm it grew up on travel with it instead of being reconstructed from fragments.