What to feed a 4 5 week old kitten
Teaching a 4 week to 5 week old kitten to eat solid food - found a kitten - stabilizing them
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to do with little about four week old
kittens so this kittens has teeth but
they're just eighty bitty and part way
through so I'd say he's just almost four
weeks old he's very like he can move
around really fast but he was found by
someone and he didn't hiss and run away
you know he's young enough to still be
scooped up so I'd say he's probably
about four weeks maybe almost four weeks
so I'm going to show how to what I call
hand feed but basically it's for those
four to five week old
they have never eaten canned food just
mama's milk so what I do with them when
I get any little kitten like this they
may not know how to drink from a bowl so
I like to give them this a little bit of
water too to make sure that they have
some hydration oh yes he's very ready to
eat and then out I'll either take a
little chunk of a canned food and hold
it up and look at him go he's already
starting to eat it so a lot of times
with these kittens especially with
little feral ones that are scared that
are maybe a little bit older they won't
just go after it at first some in the
litter will some won't so I take like a
little kind of maybe about this size
about pea-sized amount and just kind of
open there he doesn't need any help they
just open their little mouths and put a
little bit in and then I hold up chunks
and then I get them to kind of get used
to it and if they won't because some
won't then you just syringe in some
formula
sometimes when people get little four to
five achill kittens they want to get a
bottle and start bottle feeding but if
they have teeth they're gonna bite down
on the bottle probably so if they need
that extra formula for that in between
before they understand how to eat solid
food then I'll get a syringe and I'll
syringe in the formula because we do
want to make sure they're eating if
they're not getting the hair
of Candida we want to make sure that
they have the formula and we want to
make sure they still have enough water
to because they really are probably not
going to know how to drink and he like
he got some in but he didn't get a whole
lot so this would be a good age to feed
a little bit of formula a little bit of
this you could try mixing some of this
with formula every kitten is gonna be
different every litter they're all going
to be just a kind of a couple days apart
in development so you'll just kind of
have to go at their pace I'm gonna give
him a little bit of dewormer so I'm
gonna squirt that in and then I like to
give some water after so he doesn't just
have sticky dewormer mouth make sure you
have enough water yeah and he's very
excited to eat so that's great but I
think he's gonna be at the age since
he's not maybe quite four weeks maybe
he's liked it two or three days off of
four weeks he's probably gonna need a
little bit of formula in there too and
just to kind of have to have food
offered often so I like to leave the dry
kibble out for them to kind of learn at
their own pace to have it if they want
it and then just offer the other stuff
really often and you can leave some of
us with them too and see if they'll eat
it when you're not here
really great leader and really often how
like every couple hours or I'd see every
four hours but during the night I would
just leave the wet food with them and
then go longer
I still probably at this age maybe
letting go six hours or seven at night
unless you can tell they're reading on
their own with what they have in the
cage so if they're closer to five weeks
they're totally fine overnight because
you can just leave stuff in with them
unless you get the hang of it in a day
or two he's just a little bit younger
than that so and he is a boy he's got a
little boy stuff down there he's so
adorable
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