The little ones have their teeth coming in! Their canines are starting to poke through their gums and that means its time to start transitioning away from the bottle. They've both been getting a bit fussy about the bottle, probably due to teething, so the timing is perfect.
At our noon meal today I mixed up a plate of super simple gruel to do a trial run: I used chicken babyfood and mixed in enough formula to make a nice runny paste. The kittens could not get enough of it!
Squeak couldn't quite get the hang of slurping the gruel off the plate, but he was super interested in it and kept whining when he couldn't figure out how to eat it.
I went ahead and made a batch of actual gruel for them and finished their meal by syringing it into their mouths.
Since they're weaning, the gruel is a little different: I used 1 jar of chicken baby food, 2 cans of kitten fancy feast wet food, 45 grams of liquid formula, 2 scoops of rice baby food (I used the KMR formula scoop), and water. The gruel needs to be very thin at this point so the kittens can swallow it without having to chew, so I used the fancy feast can to measure out the right amount of water (gruel should always have a 2:1 ratio of wet food to water).
We'll probably still start with the bottle of formula at meal times for the next few days, but as the kitten get more of a taste for the gruel they'll start to refuse the bottle on their own.
At our noon meal today I mixed up a plate of super simple gruel to do a trial run: I used chicken babyfood and mixed in enough formula to make a nice runny paste. The kittens could not get enough of it!
I went ahead and made a batch of actual gruel for them and finished their meal by syringing it into their mouths.
Since they're weaning, the gruel is a little different: I used 1 jar of chicken baby food, 2 cans of kitten fancy feast wet food, 45 grams of liquid formula, 2 scoops of rice baby food (I used the KMR formula scoop), and water. The gruel needs to be very thin at this point so the kittens can swallow it without having to chew, so I used the fancy feast can to measure out the right amount of water (gruel should always have a 2:1 ratio of wet food to water).
We'll probably still start with the bottle of formula at meal times for the next few days, but as the kitten get more of a taste for the gruel they'll start to refuse the bottle on their own.
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