(Original BML Diet):
Original BML Diet - Bourbon's Modified
Leadbeater's Recipe for Sugar Gliders
This Original Recipe for the BML Diet (Bourbon's Modified
Leadbeater's Diet) is an alteration of the Leadbeater's
Diet.
Original BML Diet Recipe
Put in blender:- 1/2 cup honey
- 1 egg (boiled or microwaved, no shell)
- 1/4 cup apple juice
Blend well, turn off blender, add the following:
- One 4oz bottle premixed Gerber juice with mixed fruit
yogurt (mixed fruit) - 1 TEAspoon Rep-Cal Herpivite Vitamin Supplement (blue
label)
Blend until smooth, turn off blender, add the following:
- 2 TEAspoons Rep-Cal Calcium Supplement Non-Phosphorous
with Vitamin D3 in it (pink label) - Two 2 1/2 oz. jars of Chicken baby food.
- 1/4 cup Wheat Germ
- 1/2 cup dry baby cereal (mixed or oatmeal)
BML Diet mixture into Tupperware bowl or ice cube trays, cover,
and FREEZE.
Feeding Instructions
For one glider, feed 1 TABLEspoon Original BML mix, 1
TABLEspoon fruits, and 1 TABLEspoon vegetables nightly.
Use a frozen bag of mixed vegetables and a frozen bag of
mixed fruits.
Extra Advice
- If freezing Original BML Diet mixture into ice
cube trays, one cube should equal around 2 Tablespoons. You
may want to test it out to make sure. - You should be able to find the Gerber yogurt
juice in the baby food aisle. If you can not find it,
you can substitute it with 1/4 cup plain yogurt and 1/4 cup
mixed fruit juice. - The baby food chicken does not have the most pleasant
smell. The chicken will say either Chicken with Chicken
Gravy or Chicken with Chicken Broth. Either one is fine.
You can also substitute the chicken with the turkey baby
food. - DO NOT substitute the Rep-Cal Herpivite Vitamin
Supplement with any other supplement. - DO NOT feed the pits or seeds of apples, cherries,
peaches, etc. - Use fresh or frozen fruits and vegetables - NOT
canned. - Young joeys may eat more BML and less fruits &
veggies. This is ok. You should continue to offer them
every night. - Do NOT offer Briskys with the BML. It is a diet plan
within itself and could throw the balance off of both
plans. - Gliders are messy with their food. Try putting their
food dish inside of a "glider kitchen". This can be a
plastic (ferret) igloo on top of a plate or an upside-down
plastic container with a hole in the side. This will help
keep the mess and the cage smell down and make cleaning the
cage MUCH easier. - If you need to feed your gliders a few hours early,
prepare the diet without thawing the fruits and
vegetables. It should be thawed out by the time they
wake up. - A dry
staple food is not required to supplement this diet,
but can be used during the day in case your sugar gliders
wake up and need a snack. - Original BML Diet is one of the approved
sugar glider diets designed to be fed as a main course.
If Your Sugar Gliders Do Not Eat Their BML
Have you heard of Judie's BML Recipe? It is a
modified BML diet created by Judie Hausmann. Judie has been
breeding healthy sugar gliders for a long time and is very
well respected in the sugar glider community. If you
are feeding your gliders the Original BML Diet and they are
not eating it very well, you may want to consider switching
to Judie's BML. This would be a small diet change and
require minimal or no adjustment period for your
gliders.