Congratulations Mary! I am so pleased to see another ferret mom offering the best health to their ferrets by offering raw meaty items! Glad to see you worked meat into their menu. There is a way to completely removing kibble from their diet and still not having to deal with flies. You can offer dehydrated meats and freeze dried meaty items in addition to their raw offerings. I dry and freeze dry my own but there are lots of commercially available products. Offering a wide variety of meaty items is the key to offering complete nutrition. You are also offering them bones in appropriate sizes? Cornish game hen bones, chicken rib bones, chicken wing tip bones, sardines with bones, canned salmon with bones are all good sources and usually well received by the ferrets. Another option is to pulverize egg shells and mix this into their ground meats or coat their meaty item. Cheers, Kim please visit : for ferret help and info: http://holisticferret.proboards80.com/index.cgi http://ferretopia.proboards51.com/index.cgi yahoo groups Natural Ferrets for fun: www.vanityferret.com [Posted in FML 6060]