No advice on home made food but i just had to respond to the idea that ferrets are more susceptible than cats/dogs to salmonella because they have been domesticated so long. Ferrets, so far as we know, have only been domesticated for 2000 years, dogs and cats have been domesticated far longer than that. For most of the time that ferrets have been domesticated they have been working animals, being fed on raw whole rabbit, if they were lucky, and very little at all at times,so I hardly think that domestication has had time in their development to give them a more delicate digestive system than dogs/cats. Mary http://bristolferretclub.btik.com [Posted in FML 6246]