SUGGIE DIET

hi ppl,

Sugar Gliders eat a varied diet in the wild and feed through out their own teritory. In Australia although common along the eastern coast they are rarely seen. Their natural diet consists of insects, native fruit, flowers, and sap.

Diets will often include protein from meat, vegetables, fruit, other foraging foods, and the occasional nut for a treat. Their nightly diet should consist of around 50% protein, 25% fruit and 25% veggies.

I feed my baby every night just after they wake up and just before I go to bed. This allows me to spend a little time with them and hand feed them a few treats such as pecans or yogurt. I suggest removing all food in the morning after they go to sleep, it is bad for them to nibble on wet foods after they are a day old, and gliders are notorious for littering in the the areas with half-eaten food. I make sure to remove all the bits and pieces every morning so they do not rot and smell and so they wont end up eating something rotten.

The following list contains foods that my animals eat. There is also some suggestions on what not to feed them. I try to vary the nightly feeding with random items that happen to be in the fridge as well as any leftovers from dinner.

MEAT / PROTEIN

• shrimp
• worm
  
• brisket
• beef / hamburger (drain all fat)
• chicken
• ham (use as a treat, high in salt)
• cooked egg (any form w/out butter)
• tofu chunks (information on soy and soy products

FRUITS AND VEGGIES

• grapes halved
• tomatoes halved
• raw corn kernels, sliced loose (small amounts)
• cooked potato chunks
• green bean
• carrot
• cantaloupe / melon
• apple
• Kale
• Blueberries
• Strawberries (they are ok for them, however, be careful with cleaning them. They have a very hard surface to clean. Any fruit or veggies with a rough surface need to be cleaned very well before feeding them to prevent the suggies from getting sick.)
• and so forth, whatever your pet likes and whatever is in the fridge

OTHER

• Yogurt (vanilla or sweetened with honey)
• Soy Yogurt with cultures added after pasturizing
• Clean Water!
• Various flowers such as baby's breath, bamboo, blue spruce, butterfly bush, cacti(with the thorns removed since they could harm your glider), dandelions, forget-me-nots, forsythia, hibiscus, lavender, lilac, money plants, petunias, protea, quince, roses(with the thorns removed), snap dragons, sycamore, willows, and yucca.

Suggestions on what NOT to feed Sugar Gliders

• Chocolate (could kill them like it does to canines)
• Eggs with butter (use a non-stick pan or cook in microwave to make eggs)
• butter (to hard on their digestive systems to digest)
• processed sugar (ie: marshmallows)
• Anything high in Salt (ie:nuts with salt, best to serve non-salted ones)
• Baby food with spices or onion powder (the best is the plain meat or plain vegies)
• Bread (it is a filler, may cause them not to eat the good stuff. Some people say it causes problems for them in the digestive tract also)

Mummy mia