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4 weeks ago a stray cat had kittens on my front porch in a hen house we have for our free range chickens and everything seemed fine. We kept food for her and she didn't seem to mind the chickens or us walking by to go inside. We didn't bother her and we would just normally sneak a look without touching the kittens when she was using the bathroom or sunbathing herself.
Around 2 weeks she suddenly began attacking the kittens, she would bite at them, hiss and finally when we said enough and took them we had to rush 2 to the vet as she had ripped them open. Both needed stitches and one of the two had a dislocated back leg and tail.
The vet knows I've had experience with caring for kittens as my 3 girls had their mother killed at 10 days old and I bottle fed them. So we agreed I would take them in, raise them and they would help me with finding them good homes.
They're 4 now and lately it seems like they're always hungry to the point that one ate the bottle so fast that he ended up puking. I've been using whiskas KMR with just a bit of Tomlyn Nutri-Cal for kittens. They normally down 2 50cc bottles at a time.
Before it was fine but now they're getting so they'll wake up 30 minutes to an hour after eating and scream until I feed them again, to which they eat like they've not had any food at all.
Here are their weights from the last feeding:
Boy 1: 424g
Boy 2: 463g
Girl 1: 453g
Girl 2: 396g (runt of the litter)
My worry is that the KMR isn't keeping them full. Should I switch to a different brand or get bigger bottles? I know soon I'll start weaning them (I started my girls between 5 and 6 weeks) yet I don't want them to fall behind or be hungry because they're not truly full.
Around 2 weeks she suddenly began attacking the kittens, she would bite at them, hiss and finally when we said enough and took them we had to rush 2 to the vet as she had ripped them open. Both needed stitches and one of the two had a dislocated back leg and tail.
The vet knows I've had experience with caring for kittens as my 3 girls had their mother killed at 10 days old and I bottle fed them. So we agreed I would take them in, raise them and they would help me with finding them good homes.
They're 4 now and lately it seems like they're always hungry to the point that one ate the bottle so fast that he ended up puking. I've been using whiskas KMR with just a bit of Tomlyn Nutri-Cal for kittens. They normally down 2 50cc bottles at a time.
Before it was fine but now they're getting so they'll wake up 30 minutes to an hour after eating and scream until I feed them again, to which they eat like they've not had any food at all.
Here are their weights from the last feeding:
Boy 1: 424g
Boy 2: 463g
Girl 1: 453g
Girl 2: 396g (runt of the litter)
My worry is that the KMR isn't keeping them full. Should I switch to a different brand or get bigger bottles? I know soon I'll start weaning them (I started my girls between 5 and 6 weeks) yet I don't want them to fall behind or be hungry because they're not truly full.
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