8 Steps on How to Get Your Ferret to Try Raw Foods:

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1. Take boneless, skinless chicken breasts. Cut them up in to kibble sized pieces.  Mix it with their soupy, chicken baby food, ping ford’s porridge, heat the chunks slightly (but don’t cook all the way!) and coat with ferretone, or just coat in ferretone and dust with crushed kibble.  They may try it right off the bat or you might have to use hunger to motivate them to try it.

2. If they are healthy (i.e. non-insulinomic) and they are refusing to try the meat, you can fast them for 6-12 hours. THEN offer the chunks.  Hunger can be a great motivator just think of it as tough love. Remove all kibble from the cage during this time, but DO offer plenty of water.
3. Once they start to eat the chunks gradually phase out the ferretone, soupy, ping fords porridge, chicken baby food, or heating (or whatever it is that you were using to bribe them to try the food) and get them to eat plain, raw boneless skinless chicken breasts.

4. Once they are eating the kibble sized chunks plain, slowly increase the size of the chunks. Eventually just give them the whole boneless, skinless chicken breast tenderloin and let them figure out how to eat it.

5. Once they’ve learned how to eat a whole raw chicken tenderloin or breast, give them some chicken wingettes (small sections of a chicken wing) and let them learn how to eat the meat off the bone AND the bone. 

6. Once they’ve got that down you can add larger RMBs (Raw Meaty Bones) to their diet.  Chicken wings, legs, and thighs work well.

7. When they are eating the larger, bone-in parts of the chicken without a problem, get them to try a meal of organ meat (gizzard, liver, heart).  I would offer this meal once weekly. If they refuse to try the organ meat, you can use the “bribe” or “fast” methods mentioned above.
8. When they are eating bone-in meats, boneless chunks of chicken, and organ meat without any trouble, gradually introduce new meats. 

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