Highland
Sugar Gliders
Sugar Gliders
%About Us% 
Highland Sugar Gliders is a small hobby breeder located in eastern Maryland.
We specializing in several of the rare sugar glider color variations. We also produce sweet hand tame baby sugar gliders.
Our main objective in choosing to breed these very special animals is to produce healthy sugar gliders with terrific body type, stunning color variations, and sweet and healthy joeys ready to go home with you to become your wonderful family pets.
Eventually, through rigorously controlled breeding, we also hope to be able to begin the steps needed to create high quality fancy breed sugar gliders for show.
Our personal philosophy on breeding:
The most important thing to strive for in breeding is strong, healthy, big animals that are docile, social, and pleasing to the eye.
Colors are secondary to healthy body type. No one should breed based purely on color alone, because doing so can lead very quickly to a very poor body type, reduced fertility, and sickly animals.
First, we are focusing our main energies on producing the most docile and the most 'typey' animals that we are able to create, and to improve on strong body type over time and continued controlled breeding, including setting our own internal standards for multiple animal characteristics.
These characteristics include:
Body type - strong and lean.
A strong and lean body type points to a multitude of extremely healthy genes.
Both twiggy and obese body types point to the possibility of extensive poor genetic background that can lead to poor litter outcomes, reduced fertility, and shorter life spans.
Body type is the most important selection criteria for breeding.
This is more important than COI. Here is why:
Two totally unrelated animals with terrible body type will give offspring with:
- terrible body type
- reproductive problems
- health issues
- shorter lifespans
- a zero COI.
Poor body type is the biggest problem facing sugar gliders breeders today and the hardest to breed out of our lines. Multiple genes contribute to body type and depending on the severity of poor body type, it can take many generations of controlled selective breeding to recover, and all the while making it harder to select for other desirable characteristics.
Size - large and free from obesity.
Large, lean size means healthy, healthy, healthy genes. This is also more important than COI.
Skeletal structure - balanced and free from all defects.
Skeletal defects indicate genetic problems early in fetal development that have global detrimental effects on the sugar glider involving multiple body systems. This is also more important than COI.
Tail length and shape - longer, thick and straight is better, always.
Tail length and conformation are indications of nerve pathway and skeletal genetic health. Animals with longer, thicker, straight tails are far less likely to produce offspring with neural tube or other skeletal defects.
Head shape and balance - curved, Romanesque profile, somewhat wide and balanced nose bridge.
Besides being extremely pleasing to the eye, this face and head shape ensures healthy background genes.
Pug noses and pinched bridges can lead to malocclusion, breathing and vision difficulties being established in the lines.
Eye shape and size - large and balanced
Large, balanaced, and well placed eyes indicates early fetal skeletal and overall developmental health. Any small eyes, misshappen eyes, unbalanced eyes, or other eye defects indicate early fetal developmental errors. Breeding gliders with small eyes can lead to blind or eyeless joeys.
Ear shape and size - large and balanced
Small, misplaced, mismatched, or misshapen ears are an indicator of poor genetic background. And large, balanced ears indicate genetic health.
Coat - tight, shiny, smooth, Soft, clean looking, and fluffy with large fluffy tail in longer hair versions
Missing, patchy, or poor coat condition are indicators of poor to terrible genetic background or poor diet, or poor health.
Overall health - execellent
An animal with excellent overall health who is resistant to diseases is a genetically healthier animal.
All of these areas point to the degree of the background genetic health of the animal and are the reason we are using them for our breeding selection criteria.
In addition to these characteristics we will be selecting simultaneously for docility, because a big healthy animal that is aggressive or flighty is not what we want or are striving for.
Second, we are amplifying some of the color and pattern recessives and dominant alleles into the stronger, more typey lines as these are being established.
Third, we are recreating some of the rare color combinations in these strong, more typey color lines as they are established.
All of these breeding projects take an incredible amount of time and focused energy, and we are very dedicated to the work.
These projects are expected to take years to develop in such a way as to also create the most genetic diversity in our population of sugar gliders.
If you are a sugar glider breeder especially interested in strong body type and in rare color variations we would like to hear from and collaborate with you.
All of our sugar gliders are our beloved family pets. Each one is given as much interaction, bonding and play time with their humans as possible on a daily basis. This ensures that they remain sweet and that they and their joeys will not be stressed when the joeys are removed from the cage or pouch for weighing and play time. We will always strive to maintain this level of interaction and care to produce the sweetest sugar gliders available.
Our joeys are handled daily from their first day out of their momma's pouch (OOP) and they are completely hand tame and very sweet tempered.
All joeys are weaned between approximately 8 and 12 weeks OOP, and are ready for their new home any time after weaning.
We will sometimes have very beautiful classic gray sugar gliders for a very reasonable price that may not be listed on the nursery page. Please contact us if you are interested in any of these Joeys as cage mates for pets only. Or if you are interested in purchasing normal gray sugar gliders from imported stock for out-breeding your colors, we are planning on establishing several breeding lines for this purpose within the next year.
Because sugar gliders must be kept in pairs or more we offer a substantial discount on the purchase of a second joey when available.
(A minimum deposit equal to 25% of the price of the sugar glider(s) for color variations will hold him or her for you while you go through the placement process. If we decide our glider isn't right for you we will refund the deposit and any other moneys you have put down on the joey. If you change your mind, your deposit and other moneys at our discretion will be non-refundable.)
We specializing in several of the rare sugar glider color variations. We also produce sweet hand tame baby sugar gliders.
Our main objective in choosing to breed these very special animals is to produce healthy sugar gliders with terrific body type, stunning color variations, and sweet and healthy joeys ready to go home with you to become your wonderful family pets.
Eventually, through rigorously controlled breeding, we also hope to be able to begin the steps needed to create high quality fancy breed sugar gliders for show.
Our personal philosophy on breeding:
The most important thing to strive for in breeding is strong, healthy, big animals that are docile, social, and pleasing to the eye.
Colors are secondary to healthy body type. No one should breed based purely on color alone, because doing so can lead very quickly to a very poor body type, reduced fertility, and sickly animals.
First, we are focusing our main energies on producing the most docile and the most 'typey' animals that we are able to create, and to improve on strong body type over time and continued controlled breeding, including setting our own internal standards for multiple animal characteristics.
These characteristics include:
Body type - strong and lean.
A strong and lean body type points to a multitude of extremely healthy genes.
Both twiggy and obese body types point to the possibility of extensive poor genetic background that can lead to poor litter outcomes, reduced fertility, and shorter life spans.
Body type is the most important selection criteria for breeding.
This is more important than COI. Here is why:
Two totally unrelated animals with terrible body type will give offspring with:
- terrible body type
- reproductive problems
- health issues
- shorter lifespans
- a zero COI.
Poor body type is the biggest problem facing sugar gliders breeders today and the hardest to breed out of our lines. Multiple genes contribute to body type and depending on the severity of poor body type, it can take many generations of controlled selective breeding to recover, and all the while making it harder to select for other desirable characteristics.
Size - large and free from obesity.
Large, lean size means healthy, healthy, healthy genes. This is also more important than COI.
Skeletal structure - balanced and free from all defects.
Skeletal defects indicate genetic problems early in fetal development that have global detrimental effects on the sugar glider involving multiple body systems. This is also more important than COI.
Tail length and shape - longer, thick and straight is better, always.
Tail length and conformation are indications of nerve pathway and skeletal genetic health. Animals with longer, thicker, straight tails are far less likely to produce offspring with neural tube or other skeletal defects.
Head shape and balance - curved, Romanesque profile, somewhat wide and balanced nose bridge.
Besides being extremely pleasing to the eye, this face and head shape ensures healthy background genes.
Pug noses and pinched bridges can lead to malocclusion, breathing and vision difficulties being established in the lines.
Eye shape and size - large and balanced
Large, balanaced, and well placed eyes indicates early fetal skeletal and overall developmental health. Any small eyes, misshappen eyes, unbalanced eyes, or other eye defects indicate early fetal developmental errors. Breeding gliders with small eyes can lead to blind or eyeless joeys.
Ear shape and size - large and balanced
Small, misplaced, mismatched, or misshapen ears are an indicator of poor genetic background. And large, balanced ears indicate genetic health.
Coat - tight, shiny, smooth, Soft, clean looking, and fluffy with large fluffy tail in longer hair versions
Missing, patchy, or poor coat condition are indicators of poor to terrible genetic background or poor diet, or poor health.
Overall health - execellent
An animal with excellent overall health who is resistant to diseases is a genetically healthier animal.
All of these areas point to the degree of the background genetic health of the animal and are the reason we are using them for our breeding selection criteria.
In addition to these characteristics we will be selecting simultaneously for docility, because a big healthy animal that is aggressive or flighty is not what we want or are striving for.
Second, we are amplifying some of the color and pattern recessives and dominant alleles into the stronger, more typey lines as these are being established.
Third, we are recreating some of the rare color combinations in these strong, more typey color lines as they are established.
All of these breeding projects take an incredible amount of time and focused energy, and we are very dedicated to the work.
These projects are expected to take years to develop in such a way as to also create the most genetic diversity in our population of sugar gliders.
If you are a sugar glider breeder especially interested in strong body type and in rare color variations we would like to hear from and collaborate with you.
All of our sugar gliders are our beloved family pets. Each one is given as much interaction, bonding and play time with their humans as possible on a daily basis. This ensures that they remain sweet and that they and their joeys will not be stressed when the joeys are removed from the cage or pouch for weighing and play time. We will always strive to maintain this level of interaction and care to produce the sweetest sugar gliders available.
Our joeys are handled daily from their first day out of their momma's pouch (OOP) and they are completely hand tame and very sweet tempered.
All joeys are weaned between approximately 8 and 12 weeks OOP, and are ready for their new home any time after weaning.
We will sometimes have very beautiful classic gray sugar gliders for a very reasonable price that may not be listed on the nursery page. Please contact us if you are interested in any of these Joeys as cage mates for pets only. Or if you are interested in purchasing normal gray sugar gliders from imported stock for out-breeding your colors, we are planning on establishing several breeding lines for this purpose within the next year.
Because sugar gliders must be kept in pairs or more we offer a substantial discount on the purchase of a second joey when available.
(A minimum deposit equal to 25% of the price of the sugar glider(s) for color variations will hold him or her for you while you go through the placement process. If we decide our glider isn't right for you we will refund the deposit and any other moneys you have put down on the joey. If you change your mind, your deposit and other moneys at our discretion will be non-refundable.)
The Robertson
seal and motto
seal and motto
Virtutis Gloria Merces
meaning
Valor
is rewarded with
Glory.
The Robertson
war cry
garg’n uair dhuisgear
meaning
fierce when roused
Link:
Official site of the
Clan Donnachaidh
(Clan Robertson)
meaning
Valor
is rewarded with
Glory.
The Robertson
war cry
garg’n uair dhuisgear
meaning
fierce when roused
Link:
Official site of the
Clan Donnachaidh
(Clan Robertson)
Society
