>From: Sukie Crandall <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: KP FHL cross-post, digest 493: eggs > >>Because I keep getting conflicting reports as to weather raw eggs are ok >>for ferrets or not, I would like to know if feeding a small raw egg to >>ferrets once or twice a week will predispose ferrets to this disease. >>Thiamine Deficiency > >My biggest concern feeding raw anything is disease. Salmonella is just >nasty. I prefer to recommend cooked egg, as opposed to raw. A small >amount of hard boiled or scrambled egg weekly should be just fine When I posted my first letter on FHL I didn't realise it was going to be discussed on so many other lists. I have been feeding my ferrets on raw eggs once or twice a week for the past 30 year and have not lost a ferret yet, all of my ferrets are living to 10+ years, my oldest one at the moment is a jill born in the spring of 1990 Tony [Posted in FML issue 3624]