How Do You Breed A Pet Sugar Glider?
Sugar gliders, small nocturnal marsupials found in Australia and Indonesia, are easy to breed. If you carefully monitor your sugar gliders and provide the proper diet, they will breed between seven and 14 months of age. While sugar gliders have short gestation period, they raise their young in a pouch for two months after birth. Turn your sugar glider over. Look for a pouch on the belly, which appears to be a one-half inch slit. This means that your sugar glider is a female. Find out if your sugar glider is a male by looking for a furry scrotum. This will be located in front of the cloaca, which is the opening for the urinary and reproductive tract. Look for a bald spot on top of your sugar glider’s head, which also signifies that your sugar glider is a male. Keep in mind that sugar gliders will begin breeding at the age of seven months. Maintain a cage with 2 well-fed sugar gliders of the opposite sex. Feed them a high-protein diet to them healthy. Their diets should include fresh fru
