We tried it

[sherik]

So far so good. I made a raw soup for my kids to try tonight. 3 out of my 6 tried it. I want to get atleast 4 out of 6 to be raw eaters. My 4 young ones. I'm not really going to stress my old Zool out, as I don't know how much time he has left, so he will stay on his own soup. I will try my Zoey, but I'm not going to push my old girl, she has enough going on inside her.
I can't say that they liked the soup though, although Lily may have, she ate the most. I have a picture of her eating it, I will have to get that up really soon as she is so darn cute making funny faces while she was eating. My sweet Huck, he was the first to try it. I couldn't believe my eyes as he is my picky eater. And Sid my little one year old tried it, but did not really like it, yet. I will try again tomorrow.
The funny thing is, even though you all said that they are not going to get sick from the raw, I am still freaked out about it.

[Heather]

Congratulations on your first steps. It does get easier honestly...when your little ones cut into the raw food and really enjoy it. I can remember still the fear and misgivings when I fed my first raw meal to my dog. I was sure that I was going to kill him, that was over 12 yrs ago. Not as long as many but long enough That original dog has since passed on after living a very long life for a giant breed dog (1 month shy of 13 yrs), his friend didn't live as long (lots of horrible things went into his breeding to make him a pretty show dog he was 11). Kitties (there have been 4), my oldest brat just passed on, he was 22 yrs. The other 3 are 13 yrs old. There have been over 30 ferrets come through here over the years. None, stayed on kibbles. Even my oldest rescue who was turned in because the owner didn't want to watch her die. She was 9 yrs old. I honestly believe that the raw diet that she was eventually switched to gave her a chance to wander around and swear at her cagemate for another 18 months before her organs finally failed and she passed on.
You will become more comfortable , as will your little ones as your journey into the whole raw diet scene continues.
Good luck and congratulations.
ciao

[sherrylynne]

Congratulations on those first steps As some of them get more into it, the others will likely wonder what's so good, and start attempting some themselves! I love how excited mine get now when meal time rolls around

[sherik]

Yay 2 days in a row. I wan't going to officially start the raw until the weekend, but I decided, meh, and I made a little more soup. This time the same 3 polished off a plate of raw soup. I have yet to try Indy, he's my baby, it only took him one try with the cooked soup, so I am sure he will be really easy, well as easy as a ferret can be to try something new.

[rarnold18]

Congrats on the soups! That's great!! I switched to feeding my dogs raw about 3 or so years ago, and when I got ferrets last year and learned that they were indeed not rodents but carnivors I switched them too! My cats are a different story... The age range of my ferrets are about 1 1/2 to about 6 or 7 years. Everyone loves it and I just threw in a few more wings and drumsticks because they polished off their food about an hour ago and two of them were fighting over some rib bone scraps...

[sherrylynne]

That's great If they are finishing it all off in one sitting, try adding a bit more for them. When ferrets are first switched to a raw diet, it seems like they'll eat you out of house and home for about 2 months or more. It does settle down to more reasonable amounts after that time.
It's almost like their bodies are trying to get as much of the nutrition they'd been missing in as short a time as possible