How to Wean Kittens

Hello everyone, today I am in my kitten dress. I'm going to teach you everything about

wean

ing

kittens

. Weaning is the process of transitioning from the nursing stage to independent feeding, so if they are raising

kittens

and working, they have been bottle feeding. but eventually, once they are old enough and healthy enough, you will want to begin the

wean

ing process for most orphans. The weaning process begins around four to four and a half weeks of age, but this will vary depending on their weight. their behavior and health in this video. I'll show you my 3-step weaning process to take kittens from bottle feeding to eating independently in one week.

In step one, I'll show you how to start introducing slurry. in a bottle, so the supplies you'll need for weaning will first be the formula you've already given the kittens and then you'll want the food you're going to transition them to. which should be wet kitten food make sure it's a can and make sure it says kitten so what I'm going to do to tip them is start creating what I call a slurry the slurry is just a mixture of what they were doing and what they're going to do, so what I started doing is mixing their slurry in a blender bottle and then giving it to them so they recognize which bottle this method is going to use.

Help introduce them to new foods and new proteins without making it a confusing and complicated process for them. First, simply prepare the formula as you normally would, but make it in a blender bottle. A blender bottle is a soft bottle that has a small metal ball inside. and it helps shake everything up and keep it lump-free, so I'm going to use a little bit of warm water to make sure I'm making the formula to your products specifications, so this is one part formula and two parts warm water, it's okay so I've got my formula in my water in the blender bottle and now I'm going to add my wet kitten food so I'm going to pop in about half a can make sure the top is tight and then I'm going to shake it up so now.

I have our smoothie. I'm going to pour this into your bottle and you can see it has a very, very smooth consistency, it's almost like a pure juice but a little gross, full of food and formula, so let's get started. with the printer and the donut they are about four and a half weeks old so you want to win them over at the right age of course you can wean them too early and it can be very dangerous for them so I always start around four or four and a He's been on the bottle since he was about two weeks old, so he's very comfortable with it, but this is helping him get to grips with the Blender Bottle.

It's great because it helps reduce the obstacles that cause them to have a really smooth grout and a really nice experience. A good transition was that the good replacement jelly is the smallest of the litter. She is also about four and a half weeks old and is a very good bottle feeder. I love the weaning phase of kittens because they have this moment of realization once they eat. meat where they go wait a minute I'm a little predator and they go totally crazy jellies a little sloppy but I promise you it's a lot sloppier if you try to make this on a plate the first time you meet bottle me bottle meat bottle me bottle are you a predator ?

Yeah that's good that's the big boy thing last but not least the big boy bear claw so you only want to wean the kittens when you know they are in good health and if they are showing signs of who are already having a It's hard to eat, just keep them on what they're taking if they're healthy, four to four and a half weeks is a good time to start mr. Perfect, oh I just want to eat you, so with a bottle you can gradually change the ratio of meat to formula so they get more and more used to eating the new food.

I usually give the kittens a bottle for two or three days. when I beat them, they are totally comfortable with that. I move on to step two, teaching them how to eat slurry from a plate. For phase two of weaning, we will teach them how to eat from a plate. I recommend that you get a very, very shallow plate, something that's really very short, like an inch, almost like a plate with a rim. Another thing I recommend is pads for puppies, who don't always understand what you're trying to do when you show them. a plate of food for the first time, so a lot of times they can end up walking through it causing a big mess, so now we're going to make our porridge, we're going to make a mixture again of the formula that they have. been eating and a wet food that says kitten, so I don't recommend making the mixture too runny.

I recommend making it a little chunky, a little thick, almost more like the texture of homemade hummus or something so they have something they can really understand, don't forget that they may not understand this the first time, so you should also prepare a standard bottle like you have been doing just to complement, so that children get used to associating your hands with food. that when you show them that I'm a bowl, they often still go for your hands thinking that's where the food is, of course that makes sense because to an orphan they think of your hands as if they were their moms so they'll probably understand that there's there's food there I just don't fully understand how to get it.

Wow, so this is amazing. The bear claw and the donut understand this immediately. Well, the donut is standing on it with his two front paws, that's why they got the jelly pee pads, get it? you can see very hungry jellyfish but it doesn't understand what they are doing, it is the smallest of the litter and this is more typical of what I would see is that they don't really understand it, so if you have a kitten that doesn't understand In fact, you can feed them a little with your finger because they are much more likely to understand it if it is in your hand, so they eat the jellies from my finger.

This is how I put them on the plate, actually it's to show them on my finger. and then little by little I put my finger on the plate, so look now that she's there, she's still eating it out of my hand and not the plate, but if I keep picking it up and then slowly move my finger away, voila, This is a beautiful sight. This means you are very close to finishing bottle feeding now, if you are not sure they have had full meals you can also supplement with the bottle still, so I made them a bottle in case they have had enough gelatin, so remember.

You want them to continue getting a full meal if they don't quite get it, keep supplementing with the bottle until you are sure they are getting as much food as they need. I love you guys, you are very smart. Wow, the last one. The step is to seal the deal and give them only wet food on a plate. You should only do this when they are totally ready and eating porridge with confidence. At this point, you can also introduce them to water. Hello babies, are you hungry? Alright, this is phase 3. I'm going to put them on their new diet, which is just a can of wet kitten food with a little water mixed in.

Let's see if you guys can do this. They are ready? I think so. We're ready, yes, yes, we did it, they may still intervene a little bit, okay, that's why we have the pee pads, it's a little complicated, but look at this progress, so in just a week we went from being from a bottle to being in a slurry bottle to eating slurry from a plate and now that they have fully transitioned to their wet food diet, this is amazing because once they get completely used to this, they will be on their way to being adopted, remember that this may be a slow and complicated process, but don't lose hope, so don't adopt an attitude like if you didn't eat this, you wouldn't eat anything.

There is no such thing as tough love for kittens, so meet them where they are. Don't forget that you can learn much more at Kitty Lady org Happy Weaning You.