Feeding the kittens. What to feed the kitten?

Usually, kittens are started selling or giving away to new owners at the age of one and a half months. At this age, the kitten can be started gradually accustomed to adult food, but the nutrition of the kittens during this period will still be significantly different from that of adult cats.

The first thing you need to do is ask the breeder what the kitten was fed, before giving it to you. So you will find out which products your pet is used to. It is better if the nutrition of the kitten in the first 7-10 days will be the same as that of the breeder, and then you can start to gradually vary the diet. But if the breeder fed the kitten wrong (sometimes it is), then it is better to prefer the usual diet to the right one.

At the age of one and a half months, the kittens are not used tofrom mother's milk, so the nutrition of the kittens must include its substitutes. Cow milk immediately comes to mind - but this is not the best option. Both kittens and adult cats do not digest it well. It is better to try to give a kitten goat milk (this product is also suitable for adult animals) or dairy products - cream, sour cream, curdled milk, fermented baked milk, yogurt, acidophilus, cottage cheese. Please note that they should not be very fat, not sweet and perfectly fresh!

Gradually, you can enter into the ration of the kitten "adult" products. How can you feed a kitten? In addition to the above dairy products, the nutrition of kittens can include such products:

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  boiled or raw meat: finely chopped beef or veal, rabbit meat, turkey, chicken breasts, chicken neck chops, poultry stomachs, boiled by-products (except spleen), boiled pork;
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  fresh or boiled vegetables (except potatoes), greens;
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  sprouted grains (wheat, barley, oats);
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  cereals (rice, buckwheat-cut);
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  liquid porridge of ground mullet (not boiled, but steamed in cream);
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  Soups cooked on water from cereals and vegetables on water with meat or by-products;
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  chicken eggs (only yolks) no more than twice a week;
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  boiled sea fish (except herring and pollock) not more often a couple of times a month;
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  brewer's yeast (for prevention of vitamin B deficiency) - add to drinking water;
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  vegetable oil;
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  grated cheese;
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  quality industrial fodder for kittens;
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  vitamin top dressing.

Before giving a kitten to a bird or a rabbit, you need clean it thoroughly of bones. Chicken stomachs before feeding necessarilycleaned of stones. By-products can be given to a kitten not more often 1-2 times a week, besides, they can not be given twice in a row. Raw meat for 48 hours put in the freezer to kill germs, finely chopped and scalded with boiling water.

From two months you can give kittens special industrial feeds (canned food or dry food), designed specifically for kittens. Dry food before feeding should be soaked. Vitamin supplementation can be included in the nutrition of kittens only after consultation with the veterinarian. Here the principle "the more the better" does not work. In addition, the kitten should always have fresh water.

The daily diet of the kitten must be balanced. Feeding kittens should include:

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  proteins (meat, fish, offal, eggs, dairy products) - 60%
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  carbohydrates (cereals, oats, etc.) - 30%
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  fat, fiber (vegetables), dry food, vitamin supplementation - 10%

A kitten can not be fed by force - he must switch to adult food gradually and naturally. In no event should you give the kittens (and even the adult animals) food from our table, especially fried, smoked, fatty, salted, spicy, sweets, and the like.

Food should be divided into several receptions, the number of which depends on the age of the kitten. Up to six months, five or even six meals a day for kittens are taken, from six to nine months you can feed the kitten three times a day, by eleven months the number of receptions can be gradually reduced to two times a day.

Proper nutrition of kittens is a guarantee of their excellent health and development..