i understand that sugar glider love honey.may i know what type of honey do you guys use? cos there are lots of honey that are not really honey in the market, more like processed version, if u know wat i mean. do u guys use the real pure honey that is bought really expensively in the bee farm or just any bottles that say honey in the market?

I go to a local bee farm about 50 miles away. they sell (about) 1 gallon
of RAW honey for $40. Raw honey is very good, Processed or pasteurized honey is basically sugar with all the good stuff removed. (you can find this information on a LARGE number of website. Critterlove.com is one.

I don't see $40 for a gallon as very expensive. The honey is filtered so its just the raw honey not honey combs.

On Critter love's site, they advocate the use of raw honey. They also say filtered honey may be used. Many other recipes call for filtered honey. Most importantly, the honey must not contain honeycomb. Also, imported honey sometimes contains corn syrup as a substitute.

ok thanks for the info

I hope I can keep this straight, I remember reading here and there about raw honey, and then when I'm at the store, I'll look at the raw honey and think "did it say to use or not use raw honey?" so, I always end up buying the regular. I just got some, so next time, I will get the raw honey, if I remember correctly, lol.

Staple recipes are specific about what kind of honey to use. So what ever staple YOU use you should buy the kind that the recipe your using specifies.

The reason for the different kinds being used, some diets rely on the vitamins and minerals or whatever found in the raw honey, while other diets don't need to rely on raw honey to provide the vitamins and minerals because they are coming from a different source in the recipe. It's about keeping those things balanced to make the diet balanced.

Bml specifies normal grocery store pasteurized honey, it uses rep cal products for the vitamins and minerals so this diet doesn't need extra of those things from the honey.

Other diets use raw honey, and aren't using powders to provide those things...

Most diet recipes will specify what to use for these reasons, if they don't contact the person that created or modified that diet and ask.

Now if were talkin treats and not an ingredient in the staple.... I use honey sticks for treats. However, I'm not sure if honey sticks are raw or pasteurized, I guess I will have to ask my local vendor cause I hadn't given it much thought lol

Raw Honey is fine to use for gliders. Raw honey has been strained to remove most of the comb and bee parts so it is safe for gliders.

I buy from a local store that carries locally produced raw honey in several varieties. The honey is labeled by the type of flowers used by the bees.

I had a long visit with a beekeeper at one of our local green markets and had a chance to taste and compare several different honey varieties. Lighter colored honey is produced is the spring and summer and it is sweeter than the dark honey produced in the fall and very dark honey produced in winter. The differences are the available source flowers which are different each season. Your gliders may have a preference for one "flower" honey over another.

Some store brand honey is ULTRA FILTERED - which means it has has ALL of the bee pollen removed. There is proposed legislation in Florida to have this product be named something other than honey because it is no longer pure honey with out the pollen.

Ultra filtering allows manufactures to use pooled honey varieties and even honey imported from China or other foreign sources. Without pollen the product's origin cannot be identified. Pollen is like a fingerprint for honey allowing identification of the types of flowers used to produce the honey.

thanks for the input