How often? and how much do you feed new born kittens?

Question

Three little orphan kittens, two days old, they have an adopted mother to suckle on but she has no milk so I need some help to know how much and how often to feed them....

Answer 1

Phone the vet, they can tell you all you need to know and where to get the correct bottles, teats and milk substitute.
You need to sterilise everything as you would for a newborn baby, so you'll need some Miltons.

Answer 2

What the kitten needs is babycat formula. Several companies has that the two best are royal canin and KMR. I recommend royal canin it comes with a bottle three bags of formula and a small bag of dry baby cat food for later on.

Now to how to take care of him

Food:
Day one to week three: Two-tea spoon of powder and four-tea spoon of warm water. Feed every four hours.
There will probably be extra milk in the bottle, when he will finish to eat just put it in the fridge and use it next time warm it for 20 seconds in the microwave and let it cool for about a minute.
Make sure to massage his belly after each meal it will help him digest his food batter.

Week three to 5 weeks: In start mixing with his milk some canned A/D of science diet do that for a week and each feeding increase the amount of A/D and decrease the amount of milk here you can start feeding him every six hours.
Get from you vet a 10CC syringe you will need, as the food will get thicker with each feeding.

Five weeks and up: stop with the milk and mix the A/D with some royal canin baby cat dry food, you can stop with the syringe and give it to him on a flat plate or a flat box top each day decrease the amount of wet food and increase the dry food within a week or two he should eat dry food alone. Make sure that he will have dry food in a small bowl all the time now, as he will get used to eating only that. Buy him royal canin babycat 34 it’s the best kitten food for kittens at his age.

Warming him:
Take a big towel and fold it a few times in the top fold put a water warm bottle. Change the water with each feeding, in about month you can stop with the water bottle.

Excretions:
Wet some cotton in lukewarm water and squze it to get most of the water leave it moist. Gently before each meal rub the kitten rear. Make sure to do that above some toilet paper or he’ll do his things on you.
In about two weeks prepare him small low box with some cat sand to do his things in it. They just learn alone. Instincts.
If he hasn’t done his needs in over two days take him to the vet.

if you have any more questions your more then willing to email me.

Answer 3

You need to get these kittens to a vet, right this minute, as dehydration kills kittens very quickly. The vet will advise on feeding and everything else you need to know. Good luck.

Answer 4

keeping them alive will be a very expensive effort
firstly you cannot use regular milk (or even that cheap gimmicky cat milk- it MUST be Kitten Milk Replacement - KMR which is very costly - I suggest getting the powdered form and mixing it with warm water - be aware that the mixing formula (amount of water) will change as they get bigger so pay keen attention or you will cause problems for them....
At first they will need to be fed every 3 hours in the day, every 4 hours over night - this is exhausting (I have done it for shelters I have worked for) and their bums will need to be stimulated so the pee and poop - mom cat would lick their bottoms you need to get a warm moist cotton ball and wipe in on that area....

its up to you if you want to continue or not - there may be a shelter that can take them for you because honestly it will cost you A LOT to feed them this way

Answer 5

I fed newborn kittens every 2 hours. I took them to work and was in there every break and even got help from co workers. DO NOT microwave their formula! It kills all the nutrients they need. It is so worth it. A bonding thing...they will look at you and respond to your voice like a child. They know no other!

Answer 6

Just go to a "Vet" they probably have all the right sizes of nipples for orphaned animals, and also ask them what kind of milk would be "Best"...... You dont want to give them something that will make them sick & die, I'd definately ask the Vet, what kind of milk would be Best, for them......It could be canned milk for all we know, you know?

Answer 7

call your vet and ask them they would be able to tell you any information you will need to know.

Answer 8

hope this site is help to u, and good luck

Answer 9

when hungry