Lori's Gliders Diet Plan
To make this diet you will need the following ingredients: egg, unsweetened apple juice, chicken breast, frozen concentrated orange juice, wheat germ, rice baby cereal, plain yogurt, frozen or fresh fruits, frozen or fresh vegetables, and The Pet Glider vitamin. It is helpful if you have one or 2 of the following appliances, a blender, food processor, mini chopper or mixer.

Blend the following:

½ cup of Applesauce

1 scrambled Egg and the shell is OPTIONAL. Use a mini chopper to get the egg chopped finely.

½ cup of all-natural unsweetened Apple Juice, not frozen or concentrate. I use the Mott’s unsweetened Apple Juice.

¾ of a whole boneless, skinless chicken breast broil or microwave the chicken breast until done. I cut it into chunks and then use the mini chopper to get a pureed baby food consistency.

OR

You can use** 2 jars of the 2 ½ oz chicken with gravy baby food.

**Due to the baby food being mainly made up of gravy, I recommend using ¾ of a whole, boneless, skinless chicken breast.

1 12 oz. can frozen concentrated orange juice with calcium, do not add water

¼ cup of wheat germ

½ cup of dry rice baby cereal with bananas or apples

Blend all of these ingredients until it is able to be or spooned into ice cube trays and FREEZE, 1 cube in ice cube tray is approximately 2 tablespoons. It will freeze to the consistency of ice cream. This recipe will feed 1 sugar glider for approximately one month.

Take 1 Tablespoon of frozen mixed vegetables, per sugar glider with water added and microwave until thawed; drain. Add the thawed mixed vegetables to the mini chopper with your choice of 1 Tablespoon frozen or fresh fruits, not canned fruits, and chop into smaller portions. Place beside or on top of frozen cube. Do not freeze the fruits or vegetables in the mixture.

Spoon 1 teaspoon of Dannon plain yogurt (not fat free) on top of the frozen cube each night, do not freeze yogurt in the mixture. Freezing yogurt kills live bacteria which the sugar gliders need.

Lastly, sprinkle 1/8 teaspoon of The Pet Glider vitamins per sugar glider on top of the food. That way they will eat them first.
Insects –I use live or freeze dried mealworms or crickets and put in a small separate dish. Sugar gliders do not eat a lot of insects until around 6 months old, so try a few live or freeze dried worms or crickets and then increase when you notice they have desired a taste for them.
The recipe should look like this each night:
1 Tablespoon of the Frozen cube (1/2 of the cube)
1 Tablespoon of Fruits
1 Tablespoon of Vegetables
1 Tablespoon of Yogurt
1/8 teaspoon of The Pet Glider vitamin

If they eat all the frozen cube the first night, add a little more the next night until they leave only a small portion.
If they do not eat a whole frozen cube, you may cut it in half with a knife and increase when they start leaving their plate empty in the morning.
You should be consistent. Feed this diet with fruits, vegetables, The Pet Glider vitamin, and insects daily.
I use Happy Glider Pellets or Zupreem Monkey Biscuits. I keep mine in a separate dish or sometimes I will soak in apple juice. Feed 1 Tablespoon of the pellet and one monkey biscuit per sugar glider. These can be fed as a staple, not to be used as a complete diet.
Discard what is not eaten every morning except for the dry staple.
If you have any questions or suggestions call or email me. lori@lorisgliders.com www.lorisgliders.com (618) 395-2657

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The Pet Gliders Basic Exotic Sugar Glider Diet
By Priscilla Price

Instructions on the diet developed by Priscilla Price, approved by her resident vet, and, more importantly, multiple generations of happy, healthy gliders!

1. Apple Sauce, unsweetened: 1 Tablespoon per glider, per day.

2. Dannon nonfat plain yogurt (not fat free) – 1 teaspoon per glider, a good source of calcium.

3. Oats: (5 minute regular oats, not 1 minute quick) 1 teaspoon per glider daily.

4. Fruits: 2-4 different kinds each day. Oranges, papayas, tangerines, pineapples, mangos, cantaloupes, red grapes, bananas (pealed), kiwi (pealed), peaches, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and cherries – remove the pits!

5. Vegetables: Use fresh or frozen, not canned because of the preservatives.

If frozen, get the regular mixed vegetables with peas, green beans, corn, lima beans and carrots, don’t get the stir fry or processed veggies. For fresh vegetable: 2-4 different kinds each day: sweet potatoes, kale, collards, green beans, corn – (corn in small amounts –it’s too high in phosphorus and it’s fattening – they love corn so be careful), broccoli, cauliflower, beets, peas, lima beans, carrots, jicama, bok choy, squash, red bell pepper, and snow peas.

6. Protein: Chicken – feed 1 teaspoon per glider, 4-5 days per week. Chicken must be cooked – no salt or seasonings of any kind! Chicken may be broiled or roasted. (No beef!) Eggs – are also a good source of protein. Live Mealworms – are a great source of protein!!

Once they figure out how to eat mealworms, you’ll be their best friend for life…. it’s a great bonding tool!!!!!!!! You can feed 3-6 giant mealworms as a treat; your glider will start looking for you every time you pass by his cage! Mealworms are fattening, so only feed these 3 times per week, you can feed 10-12 as a main protein source for that day. (30-36 per week)

Monkey Biscuits –Mazuri growth and reproduction biscuits or a good quality monkey biscuit. Keep fresh biscuits in your glider’s cage at all times.

Sugar Glider dry pellets cereal - made especially for the sugar gliders diet, don’t use anything else! Exotic Nutrition’s Premium Sugar Glider Cereal is excellent. It has fruits and vegetables, bee pollen, more calcium, 40% protein, and a lower fat content than other cereals. Keep fresh sugar glider dry cereal in your gliders cage at all times for them to snack on! Only put out a small amount daily, so it stays fresh.

*Australian and United States zoos recommend 50% protein, 50% fruits, and vegetables for your sugar gliders diet every day.

7. Fresh water daily - your glider will die without water!!! Gatorade, apple juice, or a nectar drink may be nightly or given 3-4 times per week: change these liquids daily and use filtered water for the fresh water and to mix half water with the fruit beverage. The flavored fruit mix encourages your glider to drink more liquid. (Glider-aide should not be used because its number one ingredient is sucrose, which you are already using, and it contains an unspecified amount of vitamins, which could be too much when combined with a good mammal multivitamin & mineral).

8. Vitamins: (THE PET GLIDER MULTIVITAMIN 1/8 tsp per glider) Sprinkle a good multivitamin & mineral, (made for sugar gliders specifically), with a calcium to phosphorous ratio of at least 2:1, on your gliders food everyday. DO NOT USE REPTILE VITAMINS FOR YOUR SMALL MAMMAL! The sugar gliders high diet of fruits and vegetables contains inverse amounts of phosphorous to calcium. High phosphorus and low calcium leaches calcium from their bones making the bones brittle and easily broken or fractured. Calcium deficiency will make your glider sick, then will cause hind leg or total paralysis, and will kill him. If you notice any trembling or shaking (on a consistent basis, not just when scared), or any trouble climbing in the cage or hanging on to the perch, contact your exotic animal vet immediately. Neocalglucon or Calciquid (calcium glubionate in a sweet syrup), is an excellent product to rebuild calcium quickly, your vet (only one who is very knowledgeable in sugar gliders) can instruct you on how much and how often to give this calcium supplement. Do not feed these high phosphorous foods: beef, seeds and nuts and cottage cheese – eliminate these foods from your gliders diet. Prevention is your safest bet, use vitamins daily.

9. Feed your glider a varied diet, not the same foods everyday. This prevents food boredom and helps to assure he is getting a well balanced diet. Feed at least 4 to 6 fresh fruits and vegetables each day; don’t feed the same combination three days in a row. Avoid feeding anything with preservatives, sugar or color additives. Gliders in the wild eat very low fat diets; in captivity they can become fat and develop health problems. Feed your glider mid afternoon to early evening, as they are nocturnal animals. However a glider will adapt to your schedule. “A good diet for exotic animals is a diet of variety” per Dan Jordan, DVM, exotic and avian veterinarian, Houston, Texas.

10. Daily exercise is very important. Exercise helps the bones absorb calcium and promotes bone thickening. A sizable cage, a running wheel and toys will promote good exercise and a stimulating atmosphere. In addition to these essentials, the best exercise is daily out of cage playtime. Sugar gliders are naturally very healthy and curious little animals; you can help keep them this way!

Diet is everything to your little gliders health, happiness and life.
The Pet Glider nutrition plan has produced the healthiest gliders many exotic veterinarians have ever seen.

The Pet Glider Complete Multivitamin™, together with the Sugar Glider Exotic Diet has helped to reverse unexplained hair loss, lethargy, and has helped in the healing process of many rehabilitating and ill sugar gliders.

This nutrition plan has also been a major factor in two zoo colonies of gliders--one sugar glider and one squirrel glider (another gliding species)--thought to be unable to breed--to produce many offspring.

Caution:
1. Close toilet seats, gliders can drown and have drowned in open toilets.
2. Dogs or other pets could kill your glider if not properly socialized to them.
3. Don’t let your glider go outside unless he is in a travel bag, if he runs up a tree or gets lost he cannot live outside.

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