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Neko, what we're doing with the newborns is putting them with Oreo to nurse on her. I called the vet college and asked about the concentration of antibodies passed in the milk and the vet said it's the same amount of immunity/antibodies will be passed in the milk produced after the initial colustrum is excreted.
Since Oreo is the same blood type as Monty, our stud, it will be safe. After 24 hrs, they can go back to mom, but we're gonna do it longer just to be on the safe side. After 24 hrs the kitten gut closes to the absorption of the antibodies, so even when suckling the colostrum that will be there in Maddie, it won't harm them in any way. This is a situation many breeders face until they no longer allow breeding with the incompatible blood types and replace the breeders. We are pretty sure we're getting a new male who is a B blood type, and then he can breed both A and B queens. We will fix Monty when the new stud is close to maturity. We want to show the new stud, and get him a minimum of Champion. Monty will not be sold to a new home just because he doesn't have the blood type necessary to match our girls. He is beloved within our family and we won't part with him. We are probably keeping a couple kittens from Maddie or Molly or both for our breeding program, and with a new male, there won't be any line breeding or inbreeding.
I now have two more litters after Maddie's and those are Molly and my Bonnie. Bonnie is a Sphynx/Devon cross, and Oreo is her baby. Since Oreo only has 25% sphynx in her, I was shocked to see two sphynx in her litter. Bonnie is 50% sphynx so there is a higher percentage of sphynx genes that can match with Monty. She may have a full sphynx litter. It all depends.
Since Oreo is the same blood type as Monty, our stud, it will be safe. After 24 hrs, they can go back to mom, but we're gonna do it longer just to be on the safe side. After 24 hrs the kitten gut closes to the absorption of the antibodies, so even when suckling the colostrum that will be there in Maddie, it won't harm them in any way. This is a situation many breeders face until they no longer allow breeding with the incompatible blood types and replace the breeders. We are pretty sure we're getting a new male who is a B blood type, and then he can breed both A and B queens. We will fix Monty when the new stud is close to maturity. We want to show the new stud, and get him a minimum of Champion. Monty will not be sold to a new home just because he doesn't have the blood type necessary to match our girls. He is beloved within our family and we won't part with him. We are probably keeping a couple kittens from Maddie or Molly or both for our breeding program, and with a new male, there won't be any line breeding or inbreeding.
I now have two more litters after Maddie's and those are Molly and my Bonnie. Bonnie is a Sphynx/Devon cross, and Oreo is her baby. Since Oreo only has 25% sphynx in her, I was shocked to see two sphynx in her litter. Bonnie is 50% sphynx so there is a higher percentage of sphynx genes that can match with Monty. She may have a full sphynx litter. It all depends.
