After doing the research, here's the basic menu I've planned for 2 nine-week old kittens weighing ~25 ounces. Suggestions welcome.
Based on the frankenprey calculator (Excel spreadsheet) from catcentric.org, and working on the assumption that a kitten should consume ~8% of its body weight (using the higher-end figure according to catcentric.org), I've come up with these figures per kitten, per week:
Meat, skin, etc: 11.5 oz
Bones: 1.44 oz
Liver: 0.72 oz
Other secreting organs: 0.72 oz
Feeding 4 times a day gives a total of 28 meals a week. I plan to feed the organs and bones (in the form of chicken wings, for the time being at least) together in a meal 5 times a week, and once a week they can have an egg or two as a meal (cooked white, raw yolk, salmon oil on top). That leaves 22 meals in which to serve the meat, which would average out to about half an ounce per meal, per kitten.
Each week I can update these figures using their current weight, since they are growing so fast. If they clean their plates, they'll be offered more to eat, to make sure they aren't going hungry. And we'll use as wide a variety of meats as we can.
A couple of questions: How much salmon oil should they be given? And how many eggs?
Based on the frankenprey calculator (Excel spreadsheet) from catcentric.org, and working on the assumption that a kitten should consume ~8% of its body weight (using the higher-end figure according to catcentric.org), I've come up with these figures per kitten, per week:
Meat, skin, etc: 11.5 oz
Bones: 1.44 oz
Liver: 0.72 oz
Other secreting organs: 0.72 oz
Feeding 4 times a day gives a total of 28 meals a week. I plan to feed the organs and bones (in the form of chicken wings, for the time being at least) together in a meal 5 times a week, and once a week they can have an egg or two as a meal (cooked white, raw yolk, salmon oil on top). That leaves 22 meals in which to serve the meat, which would average out to about half an ounce per meal, per kitten.
Each week I can update these figures using their current weight, since they are growing so fast. If they clean their plates, they'll be offered more to eat, to make sure they aren't going hungry. And we'll use as wide a variety of meats as we can.
A couple of questions: How much salmon oil should they be given? And how many eggs?