[sugarcatmom]

Hello, and welcome to the board! That's quite the motley crew you got there.

Straight to the point: switch them all over to raw as soon as you're capable, no need to wait. It's much easier when they're young. You might want to do the actual transition very slowly, mixing small amounts of raw with their canned in ever increasing proportions.

As for the number of meals, is it possible to feed them more frequently than twice a day? Cats typically eat many small meals a day in "the wild" and it might cut down on the 'scarf n barf' or indigestion of some of your cats if they were fed similarly. Even if it's just 3 or 4 meals a day (for instance, in the am when you get up, then a snack as you're walking out the door, dinner when you get home from work and more snacks before you go to bed). What happens if you leave a bit canned food out for them? Does someone tend to eat it all? Or alternatively, you could freeze some canned in an ice cube tray and plop a couple cubes on a plate as you head out the door so they have a mid-day snack as it thaws. The same can be done for raw.

Do you have a recipe plan with the raw diet?