I had a big surprise from one of my gliders. I have 5 gliders total in 2 separate cages. My first cage is my 3 girls Lily, Lola, and Laila. Lily and Lola are my first gliders they are half sisters I got as joeys.
Laila is a young female I was given because she was taken out of breeding for cannibalizing her previous joeys.
So Laila came to live with me and the girls. I also have 2 boys Jake and Twitch who live in the cage across the room from the girls.
My Laila is a shy girl, so she never lets me see her tummy. On Tuesday Oct. 3rd, I got Laila out of her sleeping pouch and was absolutely shocked to see a joey(baby glider) hanging out of her pouch! I think my jaw hit the floor. Laila had come to me preggo. I was excited and scared at the same time. I called my breeder friend and Laila's previous owner to come over and take a look at my surprise. I hadn't done a lot of research on joeys, so I was nervous about messing with the little ones too much. My friend checked out Laila and found not 1 but 2 joeys in the pouch. 2 little boys.
Laila has never let her joeys come out of pouch before, so we decided to cross our fingers and let nature take its course. I have been hoping that these little boys would make it, but with Laila's past history, I wasn't getting my hopes up.
I am very happy to say that Friday October 13 these little boys officially came out of pouch.
We are naming them Lucky and Chance. I will attempt to get pictures of these little cuties up this week to share. They are the size of my pinkie finger.
