Judie's BML Recipe - A Sugar Glider Modified BML Diet
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. Her recipe is a modification to Bourbon's
Modified Leadbeater's Mix (BML). She modified it to mask
the bitter taste of the vitamin supplement. She says her
gliders are eating better and are staying healthy after feeding
this diet for over 6 years. We fed this recipe to our gliders
for several months before switching to HPW. Our gliders ate it well and stayed
very healthy. This is Judie's BML recipe:
Judie's Modified BML Recipe
Items in red are items that are
different from the Original BML recipe.
Put in blender:
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1 egg (boiled or microwaved, no shell)
- 1/4 cup mixed fruit blend of juice
(ex. apple-white grape)
Blend well, turn off blender, add the following:
- One 4oz bottle premixed Gerber juice with mixed fruit
yogurt (mixed fruit) - 1/2 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)
Tupperware bowl or ice cube trays, cover, and FREEZE.
Feeding Instructions
For one glider, feed 1 TABLEspoon Judie's BML mix, 1
TABLEspoon fruits, and 1 TABLEspoon vegetables nightly.
Use a frozen bag of mixed vegetables (corn, peas, &
green beans) for the veggies. For the fruits, use a mixture of
frozen blueberries, frozen cherries, fresh red grapes, and
assorted melons.
Extra Advice
- If freezing Judie's BML 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. - Judie's BML Diet is one of the approved sugar
glider diets designed to be fed as a main course. - Judie's website can be found at http://www.mylittlegremlin.com.