How to 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.
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Instructions
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Sex Your Sugar Gliders
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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.
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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.
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Look for a bald spot on top of your sugar glider's head, which also signifies that your sugar glider is a male.
Breed Your Sugar Gliders
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Keep in mind that sugar gliders will begin breeding at the age of seven months.
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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 fruit and protein rich foods, such as eggs.
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Expect your sugar glider to gestate for 16 days. Because sugar gliders are marsupials, their young will climb into the pouch and remain there for around two months.
Learn About Sugar Glider Young
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Expect that your sugar glider young won't emerge right away from its mother's pouch.
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Try to handle your sugar glider babies for 10 minutes every day. They will become accustomed to human touch and scent. This will help tame them.
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Expect your sugar glider young to open their eyes after ten days.
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Tips & Warnings
It is relatively easy to sex a sugar glider once they reach maturity.
You will need a license to breed and sell your sugar glider babies.
Be careful when you handle your sugar glider baby for the first time. Make sure that it is not attached to the mother's nipple; wait until it has fully emerged from the mother's pouch.
