Does a raw diet, make your ferret grow bigger? I got my New ferret at 6-8 weeks, and have been feeding him a raw diet consisting of mealworms, thawed frozen mice, raw eggs, ground beef/pork/turkey/chicken, cuts of meat. He is ridiculously big (biggest ferret I have ever had) at only 4 months old. This will be the first ferret I am raising on an exclusively raw diet. ( I am trying to convert my older ones as well) I will see how big he gets after a year, I am really excited for this one!

Does a raw diet, make your ferret grow bigger?

No.  It all has to do with genetics.


6-8 week old kit is going to eat a lot, usually the first year....they are growing....they need that protein.  Plus they are little crazy with playing....burn lots of energy....need to re-fuel.

I've read that feeding a carnivore raw from baby to adult will help them grow more gradually over a longer period of time. I know I read about it in dogs from raw feeding breeders and I believe Bob Church mentioned it in reference to raw fed ferrets. I don't know if this is abnormal or not because I have only raised 1 from baby to adult, but my oldest has been raw fed for most of her life and she has grown very noticeably in the last 6 months, but she will be 4 in August. I thought she was done growing about a year ago then... boom, longer from nose to tail and her first significant weight gain. 

Yes feeding a raw diet does actually lead to ferrets being a larger size. Ferret kibble only has a fraction of the nutrients that a raw diet does. Ferrets can't break down the starches in kibble whereas all the fat and muscle consumed with a raw diet can be perfectly turned into energy and muscle leading to a healthier ferret. A kibble ferret is almost malnourished compared to one on a raw diet. Kibble is like eating cherrios with multivitamins every day. You will survive but it isn't as healthy as a good meaty diet. I rescue ferrets and convert all of them to raw and the difference is breath taking.

Yes the first year of a ferrets life is when they are biggest but still raw feeding helps them get a healthier weight. You don't need the worms, and I'd head over to the holistic forum because you can very easily get a nutrient deficiency on an improper raw diet like just feeding muscle meat without bones, skin, liver, heart, and other organ meats.