I live in Sydney Australia and have been breeding ferrets for seven years for pets. Some of these pets are also used for flushing rabbits out of their holes (quite legal in Australia, they are an incredible exotic pest) but I don't myself. Minced rabbit, (containing liver and kidneys) is readily available fresh, and is one of the cheapest pet foods. Kangaroo meat is available but I refuse to feed my ferrets on native fauna even though I have seen ferrets raised on it very successfully. It is fat free and full of protein. Salmonella can be a problem so I give them at least one meal a week of cooked chicken wings, and as Australian soils are also deficient in zinc, I add a supplement of zinc and fatty acids called EFA-Zed, which does marvelous things to their skin and fur. They also have dry food available and their bedding material is lucerne hay. (Alfalfa I think?) Lots of mosquitoes too, so they are also given monthly doses of Ivermectin as a heartworm preventative. (Kills mites too) It is only in the last few years that publicity about lactose intolerance has reached some breeder/owners, sadly for ferrets they have been fed (?) on bread and milk for ages (YUK) David (Walrus) Miller :)= Caringbah Sydney DownUnder [Posted in FML issue 2138]