What is the best thing to feed 6 week old kittens when they are ready to start eating food?

Answer 1

I have three 8 weeks old kittens. I started them on soft food and moistened purina kitten chow . Then along side of it I offered hard Kitten chow. As they grew they liked chewing on the harder stuff and slowly switched themselves over. I like to offer soft food still every other day but keep the hard food out at all times. GL with your kitties!

Answer 2

Six weeks of age is the perfect time to begin weaning your kitten. I am not sure if you have been using milk replacer or if your baby kitty has a mother, but my vet has recommended mixing warm milk replacement with the dry food to create a mash before jumping to dry food.

However, kittens tend to play and get messy in the mash, so you will want to supervise them when eating and take the food away when you are done.

I have had many kittens that made the transition from milk to dry food very well when I left the dry food out. Purina One Kitten food is the best on the market, in my opinion. The formulation is gentle on the kittens' digestive systems and they seem to like the flavor much more than other brands I have used in the past.

Also, Purina One kitten food is designed to be fed to nursing mothers, so if you have the mother and the kittens together, then all of them can eat this brand together and the little ones learn to eat the solid food by watching their mother.

Additionally, moist kitten food is difficult to find and can be too rich for their systems.

Answer 3

You should get kitten food. Soak it in water so that it is soft and mushy. The moma cat will eat it, and the kittens will copy. Also, you can hold a piece of soggy food up to its mouth the very first time it has it. The important thing is to make sure that the kittens get kitten food.

Answer 4

AT 8 WEEKS ween them to small amounts of kitten food. Before this they can get constipated and that is harmful. If you have a 6 week kitten ask the vet for advanced kitten replacement meal to add in to his diet

Answer 5

Baby cereal prepared with goats milk and mix in Iams kitten chow to soften in the cereal. Goats milk won't cause the runs, the baby cereal provides flavor and soluable vitamins and kitten chow gets them used to eating cat food. Slowly over a period of a few weeks wean them onto unmoistened Iams kitten chow. I never feed kittens canned food until they are a year old because it can cause gas and bowel problems.

Answer 6

Mix canned kitten food with dry kitten food until they are 8-10 weeks old, then you can slowly switch them to dry kitten food only.

Keep giving them kitten food until they are a year old. After that switch them to adult/regular cat food.

Answer 7

Kitten food.

Answer 8

Definately a kitten food. preferably a moist one. But if you live in a small town like me you may just have to moisten with water or a formula substitute. Never ever Milk, it can cause such bad tummy problems in little ones as cats are actually lactose intolerant. I've seen IAMS in small cans in a kitten formula

Answer 9

You need to feed the kitten special marked KITTEN FOOD. You can decide what brand you would like.

Answer 10

Well, there are a couple of things you can do. You probably shouldn't feed it dry food, but you can soften it with a little water. You could also try feeding it soft food such as fancy feast.