The kitten food
In the normal condition of livestock, a kitten is sucking its mother's milk. During the first two days the breast secretes colostrum, rich in gamma globulins (antibodies), giving the kitten an immunity at the beginning of his life.
An all header kitten usually 2 hours. Nursing lasts normally 5 to 6 weeks. If the kittens are orphaned or too many, you will have to resort to replacement milk. Preferably choose an industrial milk for reasons of simplicity and quality.
Indeed, cow's milk is less rich than the milk of the pussy, so one should supplement the minerals, vitamins and taurine.
- The distribution schedule is as follows :
- 7 bottles a 24 hours the first week and
- down gradually 2 6th week, doses to be dispensed being indicated on the milk packet.
Be careful to respect the rhythm of baby bottles : it will give the night at the beginning like a baby.
A 30 days you can offer solid food the kitten.
To monitor the proper growth of the kitten must watch your weight. A kitten should gain weight regularly. It needs between 5 and 10 days depending race to double his birth weight. If 48 h a kitten lost weight or has not taken, we must worry and find the cause.
The withdrawal
At the age of one month kittens start scratching and biting the mother who pushes the increasingly ; this is the time of weaning (passage of liquid feed to solid feed).
For weaning you have to take the mother's relay ; prefer foods like kittens to those of the mother because it will avoid eating disturbances.
Start weaning when the weight of the kitten begins to increase less quickly (about 30- 40 days)
If you gave bottles, one week before weaning let available to the kitten a bowl with the solid food wet milk infant after each feeding. And during withdrawal, proposed the moistened solid food to formula before the bottle.
Gradually, time measurement reduces bottles and moistens it is more solid food. The total duration of weaning is 2 to 3 maximum weeks.