Hi Everyone!  Rocky loves raw chicken and egg yolk, and chicken gravy
and would eat it all the time if I gave it to him.  I like the idea of
feeding him chicken, but he's only been getting what I buy for myself,
which is boneless, skinless chicken breast (no antibiotics/hormones and
cage free/humane).  He seems to like it best raw.  What can I give him
that would be more nutritionally complete?  Chicken wings?  Do I have to
chop it up?
 
I don't think I can deal with feeding him mice (definitely not live).
 
I do have kibble out all the time, but given the choice, he'll take raw
chicken over kibble.  Since I started cooking for him, he will not eat
ANY processed food, like canned cat/kitten or baby food, nor will he eat
any cooked chicken from a restaurant or deli.  He never ate raw chicken
until I started buying the good kind, which I did not for myself but for
the sake of the chickens.  One day he tried to climb into the fridge and
I thought he was going after fruit but the only thing on the bottom shelf
was a fresh package of chicken.  I couldn't believe he wanted it because
in the past he only liked it breaded and fried LOL.  When I took the
package out and opened it, he looked up at me (you know that look), so I
cut off a little piece and was amazed that he ate it.  Now he's crazy
about it.  He would never eat turkey at all until I bought some from the
farmer's market.  Also prefers it raw.  Same with eggs, only raw yolks
(or warmed but still liquid).  He loves butter too.
 
I guess all the times he begged for fruit and I kept telling him, "You're
a carnivore and carnivores eat meat" finally sunk in!
 
Rocky just turned 5 yrs. old, and is my first and only ferret.  I can't
believe how fast his time with me is going.
 
Dooks!
Shron & Rocky--"I don't see you eating cereal all the time, so why should
I?"
 
[No comments/flames about salmonella, please; I know the rap and I still
eat runny yolks and rare meat myself.]
[Posted in FML issue 5155]