2 Week Old Kitten Feeding Guide

Neonatal newborn to four week old kittens require round the clock care.

2 week old kitten feeding guide. If a kitten is feeding on his mother you ll want to focus on how well the kitten weighs to determine whether it consumes enough food or not. By providing your cat with a balanced diet during her pregnancy and while she is suckling she ll be able to feed her kittens until they are weaned between six to eight weeks old. See if the kitten is gaining enough weight. Weeks two and three feeding schedules.

Feed half of the kitten s wet food apportioning for the day. Themify box style red info night meal themify box replace the old water with fresh water in a bowl if necessary. Yes i know the idea of waking up every 3 4 hours to feed the kitten sounds exhausting but it is what they need in order to get the nutrients to grow. Caring for 2 week old kitten.

Fill a little bowl with around 1 3rd of your kitten s daily. The energy requirement is 20 26 kcal 100g body weight daily and the maximum comfortable stomach capacity is 4 ml 100 g body weight 1 concentration 0 74 kcal ml. Get a kitten formula and nursing kit in a pet store. He should weigh at least 150 grams but not more than 250 grams by this time.

A 2 week old kitten needs to be fed at least 10 14 mls of formula and water combination every 3 4 hours even at night. How to feed in terms of nutrition the one thing you must always remember is to never give the kitten cow s milk as it isn t nutritious enough for them. Make sure you never feed kittens cat milk which is. Weeks two and three feeding guide schedules a kitten aged 2 to 3 weeks will also need to be feeding every 2 3 hours and will aim to consume 1 2 tablespoon of milk or formula at each feeding.

Begin the weaning process by offering well mashed kitten food from three to four weeks of age. A 2 to 3 week old kitten will still need to be fed every 2 3 hours and it should consume at least 1 2 tablespoon of formula or milk during each meal. Feeding kittens 2 3 weeks old. You d have to increase the formula feeding amount to about 6 10 ml per feeding.

Not only that cow s milk cannot be properly digested by them. Use specific kitten bottles to feed the kittens with kitten formula. Take and dispose of any uneaten wet food after half an hour. The same feeding schedule of every 2 3 hours should continue when the kitten is 1 2 weeks old.

All kittens have blue eyes until their adult color becomes apparent which might not be until they re two months old. Feeding kittens 1 2 weeks old.