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We recommended that you feed your sugar glider the mix below. The indredients in the mix gives the glider all the nutrition they need.

Leadbeaders Mix for Sugar Gliders

1/2 Cup Honey
1/4 Cup Apple Juice
1 Hard Boiled Egg (Shelled)
BLEND

1 Jar Gerber Baby Juice With Yogurt
2 Teaspoons of Glider Booster
BLEND

2 to 2 1/2 Stage 1 or 2 Baby Chicken
1/4 Cup Wheat Germ
1/4 Cup Baby Cereal
BLEND

Put mixture in a freezer safe container and freeze. It will freeze to the consistency of ice cream. Serve every 3 to 5 days to the Sugar Gliders. Approximately one melon ball sized scoop per glider.

Proper Foods and Treats

Fruits

Apple      (With or Without skin)
Apricots
Banana
Blackberries
Blueberries
Cantaloupe
Cherries      (Sweet)
Coconut
Crab Apples
Cranberries
Custard
AppleDates
Elderberries
Figs
Grapes
Grapefruit   (do not feed everyday)
Honey
Honeydew Melon
Jackfruit
Java Plum
Kiwifruit
Kumquat
Lemon
Lemon Peel
Lime
Mandarins
Mango
Melon
Mulberries
Nectarine   (do not feed every day)
Orange Peel   (do not feed every day)
Orange   (Navel & Valencia)      (do not feed every day)
Papaya
Passion Fuit (Purple)
Peach
Pear
Pineapple
Plum
Prunes
Raisins
Raspberries
Strawberries
Tangerine
Watermelon

Vegetables

Alfalfa
Artichoke
Asparagus
Avocado
Bamboo Shoots
Beets   (Do not feed everyday)
Broccoli    (Spears & Sprouts)
Brussels Sprouts
Cabbage   (Green & Red)
Carrots
Cauliflower
Celery
Collard Greens    (do not feed every day)
Corn    (yellow) (do not feed every day)
Cucumber    (With or Without skin)
Dandelion Greens
Green Beans    (Snap Beans)
Kale    (do not feed every day)
Mushrooms
Mustard Greens
Mustard Spinach
Okra
Parsley   (do not feed every day)
Parsnips
Peas    (Green)   (do not feed every day)
Peppers   (Sweet)
Pumpkin
Radish
Spinach    (do not feed every day)
Squash    (Acorn, Butternut, Hubbard, Spaghetti, Summer, Winter & Zucchini)
Sweet Potato
Tomato   (Green & Red)
Turnip Greens   (do not feed every day)
Watercress
Yams

Other foods they love

Chicken   (make sure it’s boneless & cooked)   boiling it in water is best
Eggs    (scrambled or boiled)    DO NOT use oils when cooking
Insects    (farm raised)   crickets, mealworms, grasshoppers
Yogurt    (do not feed every day)

Toxic foods - Foods to avoid - The NoNo's

Baby foods   (containing onions or garlic for seasoning Most do not but check!)
caffeine    (coffee, tea, soda, chocolate etc.)
canned foods or meat    (most contain added salt and sugar)
canned fruit   (most contain added salt and sugar)
cheese    (could cause intestinal stoppage or "binding" leading to constipation)
chives
chocolate    (It causes a toxic chemical reaction in many animals)
dog food
fat    (any food with high or added fat)
fried foods
garlic
insects that are wild caught
keels
iceberg lettuce   (non nutritional)
milk
millet    (or other very small seeds)
nuts    (possible exception of a uncooked, unsalted penult for very rare extra special treats)
onions
pits    (from fruit)
processed meat
phosphorus (No foods high in phosphorus.Use a calcium that does not contain phosphorous)
raw eggs
raw meat   (except for live insects)
rhubarb    (Stocks can be toxins to mammals if not cooked, Foliage may contain toxins even if cooked)
salt    (any food with added salt)
scallions
seeds    (including fresh fruit seeds, possible exception is an very rare uncooked, unsalted seed as a rare special treat)
sugar   (refined sugar, table sugar)
foods with added sugar

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