Like a child, a small kitten, with age, also needs to change the diet and train the crumbs themselves. Therefore, the question of how to introduce complementary feeding to kittens is set by many owners of mugging pets. After all, in addition to breast milk for children, felids need to receive other foods rich in vitamins , minerals useful to the growing body. With what and when to start luring the kittens, so that the crumbs have learned to eat independently and have grown healthy and strong, we will tell you in our article.
When to start luring the kittens?
Before starting new products, you need to make sure that the animal is well and the new changes in nutrition will only benefit him. Experts say that it is best to start luring the kittens from the first month of their life, when the teeth are cut through, or rather from 3 weeks. While the crumb can not chew independently solid food, as the first innovation is used the usual adapted milk mixture, low-fat curd, cream, sour-milk products, cereals, boiled vegetables, depending on the preference of the breed.
Many are interested in the question of when to start feeding the British, because all thoroughbred cats require a careful approach to nutrition. Since 4 weeks, when the baby's teeth are cut, you can give him a boiled beef, scraped and rolled into a ball the size of a pea. Gradually increasing the sizes of portions, replace it with raw meats and vegetables. From 5-6 weeks allowed to slowly accustom the animal to adult food.
Lure Scottish kittens should also begin with 3 weeks. For this, 10% cream is suitable, but in no case can you use cow's milk. From the 5th week in the diet are introduced porridge with cream, boiled chicken and liver. From the 6th week it is allowed to give the kitten raw beef, boiled by-products, egg and vegetables, and from 3 months to transfer the pet to adult food.
But lure the kittens of the sphynxes is better to start from the age of 4 weeks, and as usual continue to enter until 3 months.