4 Week Old Kitten Feeding Guide

Feeding kittens 2 3 weeks old.

4 week old kitten feeding guide. Kittens 3 to 5 weeks should be given baby cat kibble. Feeding times can be adjusted to every 3 4 hours with increased feeding amounts of about 10 13 ml of kitten milk formula. How much to feed a kitten 4 weeks old 8 weeks old or 3 months will be mentioned based on the age and weight.

Kittens 5 to 6 weeks should be given kitten kibble and kibble should be mixed into the wet food. The feeding can vary considerably depending on the consumption in order to ensure that daily feeding needs are met. Take a look at the feeding guides on the kitten food packet label.

Raising an abandoned or orphaned 4 week old kitten may feel like an exhausting full time job more so in the beginning when they must be frequently fed throughout the day. Later you should start using automatic cat feeders to feed your kittens. A kitten aged between six to 10 weeks old needs to be fed six to eight meals a day while a kitten aged 10 weeks to six or seven months needs four meals a day and a kitten up to nine months needs three meals a day.

While a 4 week old kitten will need about 5 small meals per day you can reduce his daily feedings to 2 3 daily meals by the time he s 6 months old. To make one by yourself you can easily mix the kitten food both dried and wet with water or milk. From when they are 3 weeks old young kittens are usually encouraged by their mother to stop suckling and start eating other kinds of foods.

As the kitten reaches two weeks of age it will be starting to act a little more social and play with its littermates. Note that it s not until adulthood that two meals a day for a cat is acceptable. Below are some of the best foods for your young kittens.

Five to eight week old kittens. Weeks two and three feeding schedules. If a kitten is nursing from its mother you ll have to depend on how much the kitten weighs to know whether or not it is consuming enough food.