Inge Nespolon <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Okay, I have read the pros and cons of raw feeding. > >My question is, is there anybody out there that had serious health >problems, confirmed by a veterinarian, with their ferrets because >of it? I have been raw feeding about 30 ferrets, 3 cats, 2 dogs and 2 skunks in the last 5 1/2 years and not once have I encountered problems like food poisoning. Not even sick ferrets with a compromised immune system got sick from raw meat. I feed chicken, turkey, beef and rabbit and sometimes lamb. But mainly chicken and beef. And raw egg yolks (which I eat raw myself, too). When I started feeding raw, I did a lot of research, joined numerous raw feeding lists, read raw feeding web pages and bought books, and all I could find was amazing health benefits. I read so many stories from raw feeders, with actual experience and not hypothetical theories, about how raw feeding benefited their animals. As long as you feed fresh meat which is good enough for human consumption. I think a lot of the problems associated with raw feeding stems from the old days when people would put a carcass in with their ferrets without knowing how fresh it was and then leaving it in with the ferrets for days. Ulrike [Posted in FML issue 5159]