How to Wean a Bottle-Fed Kitten

Video Transcript

"Let's talk about how to wean a bottle fed kittens. Bottle fed kittens are typically orphans and so they have to be bottle fed with something like a kitten milk replacer every two to four hours depending on how how big they are and how much they're eating. So bottle fed kittens are reliant on this and so the whole idea is well when do you get rid of this or how to get them off of it. And so the idea is if you're using a kitten milk replacer, about four weeks of age is when these kittens are generally going to want to start eating more solid food. And using a shallow bowl or something like that and you can actually put the milk replacer in there and try to wean them from the bottle to a bowl initially. So around four weeks of age, that's helpful. After that about five weeks of age, in between that area is when you can start adding a little bit of solid food, a little, a little kitten food that's moist into that gruel or into that that milk replacer to form a gruel and then starting to use softened dry food as well. And so generally when kitten get the idea that they're going to for a bowl, it basically replaces the bottle. And so they're going to instantly start eating out of the bowl and you can start getting rid of the bottle basically."